plural carriages
1
a
: a wheeled vehicle
especially
: a horse-drawn vehicle designed for private use and comfort
b
British
: a railway passenger coach
2
: a wheeled support carrying a burden
3
a
: manner of bearing the body : posture
that slender unrigid erectness and the fine carriage of head—
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b
archaic
: deportment
4
: the act of carrying
5
: a movable part of a machine for supporting some other movable object or part
a typewriter carriage
6
chiefly British
: the price or expense of carrying
7
medical
: the condition of harboring a pathogen within the body
Clinical manifestations of enterovirus infections are protean, ranging from asymptomatic carriage to life-threatening illness.—Journal of the American Medical Association
Journal of the American Medical AssociationHospitals commonly screen patients in the ICU for nasal carriage of MRSA and use contact precautions with carriers.—Susan S. Huang et al.
Susan S. Huang et al.8
archaic
: management
11
obsolete
: a hanger for a sword
Examples of carriage in a Sentence
They rode to the city in carriages.
I took the baby to the park in the carriage.
Recent Examples on the Web
Whether cable distributors object likely won’t be known unless carriage talks grow contentious.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 9 Apr. 2024
This being America, posture panic was swiftly commercialized, with a range of products marketed to appeal to the eighty per cent of the population whose carriage had been deemed inadequate by posture surveys.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
The property covers more than 400 acres, which include formal gardens, a carriage barn, and many other enticing attractions.
—Kira Turnbull, Travel + Leisure, 2 Apr. 2024
This corps encircled Lincoln’s carriage and began the march.
—Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
The cable company has been a disrupter over the past year, leveraging a carriage fight with Disney to demand that its TV subscribers gain access to the company’s streaming services.
—Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Mar. 2024
During various songs, she was lifted high above the floor in a carriage and moved from one end of the arena to the other, all the while singing and dancing 30 feet above the crowd.
—Stefan Stevenson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Mar. 2024
The world’s top carriage builders picked up the reins (or, more accurately, dropped them) and began designing increasingly elegant bodywork for the nascent motorcar industry; within three decades, automakers such as Rolls-Royce, Aston Martin, and Bentley were also competing.
—The Editors, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2024
The mansion was a former plantation, and visitors can learn about the role of the enslaved people there and view their quarters, as well as the carriage house, stable, and formal garden.
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 25 Mar. 2024
Brian Steinberg, Variety, 9 Apr. 2024
This being America, posture panic was swiftly commercialized, with a range of products marketed to appeal to the eighty per cent of the population whose carriage had been deemed inadequate by posture surveys.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
The property covers more than 400 acres, which include formal gardens, a carriage barn, and many other enticing attractions.
—Kira Turnbull, Travel + Leisure, 2 Apr. 2024
This corps encircled Lincoln’s carriage and began the march.
—Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
The cable company has been a disrupter over the past year, leveraging a carriage fight with Disney to demand that its TV subscribers gain access to the company’s streaming services.
—Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Mar. 2024
During various songs, she was lifted high above the floor in a carriage and moved from one end of the arena to the other, all the while singing and dancing 30 feet above the crowd.
—Stefan Stevenson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Mar. 2024
The world’s top carriage builders picked up the reins (or, more accurately, dropped them) and began designing increasingly elegant bodywork for the nascent motorcar industry; within three decades, automakers such as Rolls-Royce, Aston Martin, and Bentley were also competing.
—The Editors, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2024
The mansion was a former plantation, and visitors can learn about the role of the enslaved people there and view their quarters, as well as the carriage house, stable, and formal garden.
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 25 Mar. 2024
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“Carriage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carriage. Accessed 20 Apr. 2024.
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carriage
noun
car·riage
ˈkar-ij 
1
: the act of carrying
2
: manner of holding the body : posture
3
: a horse-drawn wheeled vehicle designed for carrying persons
4
: a wheeled support carrying a load
gun carriage
5
: a movable part of a machine for supporting some other movable object or part
a typewriter carriage
Medical Definition
carriage
noun
car·riage
ˈkar-ij
: the condition of harboring a pathogen within the body
immunization against hepatitis B reduced the rate of HBV carriage
asymptomatic carriage of the pneumococcus in the nasopharynx
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