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:
“For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.”
—Bible: New Testament St. Paul, in 1 Timothy, 6:7.
The words also appear in the Book of Common Prayer, “Burial of the Dead.”
“And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew,
That one small head could carry all he knew.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)
“I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means—except by getting off his back.”
—Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)