- 1外帶；也指賣外帶的店。美式／蘇格蘭說法。英國說 takeaway；台灣菜單上就是「外帶」。
Carry-out is food you buy at a restaurant but do not eat there — you take it home, to the office, or eat it in the street. The word can also mean the shop itself, the place that sells food like this. You will hear it in American English, especially in some parts of the US, and in Scottish English. In England people usually say ; many Americans say . Same idea, different labels. Though actually, the verb phrase carry out is a completely different thing: that means to do a job or a plan ("carry out an order"). The food word is a noun, often written with a .
carry-out 是名詞，指在餐廳買、不在店裡吃、帶走或到別處吃的食物，也可以指那家賣外帶的店。它多見於美式英文，蘇格蘭英文也這樣說。英國人常說 「takeaway」，很多美國人說 「takeout」，概念相同，只是說法不同。
要注意 carry out 拆開來是動詞片語，意思是執行或完成一件事，例如 「carry out an order」，跟外帶沒有關係。寫成帶連字號的 carry-out，才是指食物的名詞。
From the word’s history
From the phrasal verb carry out.
來自片語 carry out。
組成The phrasal verb carry out (to take something out), turned into a noun.
同家族的字
- carrythe verb this noun was built from
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
carry-outnoun
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computingengineeringmathematicsA command that exports a carry (bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation) from the current column of an addition operation.
- 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.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- carryout
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