Carry

Carry or carrying may refer to:

  • Carry (arithmetic), when a digit is larger than a limit and the extra is moved to the left
    • Carry flag, the equivalent in calculation in a computer
  • Carrying (basketball), a rule breach in basketball
  • Carry (American football), a statistical term equivalent to a single rushing play
  • Carry (investment), a financial term: the carry of an asset is the gain or cost of holding the asset
  • Carried interest (or carry), the share of profits in an investment fund paid to the fund manager

Carry may also be:

  • Carry Back, (1958–1983) a Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse
  • Carry Back Stakes, an annual American Thoroughbred horse race
  • Carry-in (potluck) or carry-out (take-out) dinner
  • Carry-le-Rouet, a commune in southern France
  • Carry look-ahead adder, a type of adder used in digital logic
  • Carry over cooking, when food retains heat and continues to cook after being removed from a heat source
  • Carry-save adder, a type of digital adder
  • Fireman's carry, a rescue technique
  • Suzuki Carry, a car
  • Carry, a track by Tori Amos on the 2011 album Night of Hunters

Famous quotes containing the word carry:

    I would rather not see such winds subside, which carry your slow ship away, although they leave me, cast down, on an empty shore, often, with clenched hand, calling you cruel.
    Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)

    ... picking the faded blue
    Of the last remaining aster flower
    To carry again to you.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)