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.)
“Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?”
—John Gay (1685–1732)
“Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?... You carry your fortune in your own hand.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)