Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

carry-in

/ˈkæɹi ˌɪn/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.89 in modern English

Syllables: car-ry-in
IPA: /ˈkæɹi ˌɪn/

12

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A location or program to which participants bring something, such as appliances brought to a repair shop or food brought to a gathering.

noun

A location or program to which participants bring something, such as appliances brought to a repair shop or food brought to a gathering.

noun

A command that adds a carry (bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation) to an accumulator for the current digit in an addition operation.

Example Sentences

"a carry-in shop; a carry-in party"
"A simpler scheme is to connect the carry-ins and carry-outs of the units in a ripple chain. This approach is most common in chip design because the wiring for the carry-lookahead tree is hard to design and area-consuming."

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈkæɹi ˌɪn/
British English: /ˈkæɹi ˌɪn/

Inflected Forms

carry-ins (plural)

Homonyms

carrion (sometimes)

Rhymes With

clarion carrion contrarian arion arrian vulgarian samarian orpharion acantharian

Questions

How do you pronounce carry-in?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkæɹi ˌɪn/.
What does carry-in mean?: A location or program to which participants bring something, such as appliances brought to a repair shop or food brought to a gathering.

How to pronounce carry-in

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