{
  "id": "carrying.transporting",
  "term": "carrying",
  "sense": "transporting",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 5,
  "arena": "physical",
  "domain": "motion",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "To move with a thing that is in one place and then is in another, where the thing remains in contact and under control.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "motion.movement",
      "persist.continue",
      "matter.substance",
      "contact.physical",
      "control.ability",
      "space.extent",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "Motion moves matter through space while persist.continue ensures the matter stays connected to the mover across time, with contact.physical and control.ability maintaining the relational bounds of the transport.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "bounded persistence of matter during motion",
      "controlled spatial displacement",
      "continuous physical connection during transfer"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Curiosity rover carried a 2.5 kg laser spectrometer across 27 km of Martian terrain from 2012 to 2023.",
      "domain": "space exploration"
    },
    {
      "text": "A white blood cell carried a phagocytosed tuberculosis bacterium through the bloodstream to a lymph node.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Panama Canal's lock system carried the MV Ever Ace 26 meters upward and across the continental divide in 2022.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "motion.movement",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "a kind of motion"
    },
    {
      "id": "brought.past-tense",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "enables future arrival with something"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "abstraction.process",
    "auto.vehicle",
    "brought.past-tense",
    "cable.electrical",
    "car.transport",
    "cart.transport",
    "email.digital",
    "mail.postal",
    "online.digital",
    "overshoot.dynamics",
    "shipping.transport",
    "travel.movement",
    "wheel.tool"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "carried",
    "carries",
    "carry",
    "carrying"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive components that the definition implicitly relies on: contact.physical, control.ability, space.extent, and time.dimension. Definition remains unchanged as it correctly descri"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-carrying.transporting"
}