User Contributed Dictionary
Pronunciation
Verb
carrying- present participle of carry
Extensive Definition
Carry or carrying can mean:
- Carry
(arithmetic), when a digit become bigger than 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, a financial term: the share of profits in an investment fund paid to the fund manager.
- Fireman's carry, a rescue technique.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accoutered, aid, air express, airfreight, airlift, anticipating, armed, asportation, backing, bearing, big with child,
big-laden, bolstering, bracing, breeding, bristling with arms,
burdened, buttressing, carriage, carry, carrying a fetus, cartage, conveyance, drayage, expecting, expressage, ferriage, freight, freightage, full-armed,
gestating, gravid, great, haulage, hauling, heavy, heavy with child,
heavy-armed, heeled,
holding, in arms,
knocked up, light-armed, lighterage, lugging, maintaining, maintenance, moral support,
packing, parturient, portage, porterage, preggers, pregnant, propping, psychological
support, railway express, reliance, security blanket,
shipment, shipping, shoring, subsidy, subvention, superfetate, superimpregnated,
support, supporting, supportive, supportive
relationship, supportive therapy, suspensory, sustaining, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, sustentative, sword in
hand, teeming, telpherage, toting, transit, transport, transportation, transporting, transshipment, truckage, under arms, upholding, upkeep, waft, waftage, wagonage, well-armed, with
child