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run Verb
run (third-person singular simple present runs, present participle running, simple past ran, past participle run)
- (intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off of either foot, compare: walk.
- Run, Sarah, run!
- (intransitive) To go at a fast pace, to move quickly.
- The horse ran the length of the track.
- I have been running all over the building looking for him.
- Sorry, Ive got to run; my house is on fire.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move or spread quickly.
- Theres a strange story running around the neighborhood.
- The flu is running through my daughters kindergarten.
- (transitive) To cause to move quickly; to make move lightly.
- Every day I run my dog across the field and back.
- Ill just run the vacuum cleaner over the carpet.
- Run your fingers through my hair.
- Can you run these data through the program for me and tell me whether it gives an error?
- (transitive) To control or manage, be in charge of.
- My uncle ran a corner store for forty years.
- She runs the fundraising.
- My parents think they run my life.
- (intransitive) Of a liquid, to flow.
- The river runs through the forest.
- Theres blood running down your leg.
- (intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
- Your nose is running.
- Why is the hose still running?
- My cup runneth over.
- (transitive) To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from an object.
- Youll have to run the water a while before it gets hot.
- Run the tap until the water gets hot.
- (intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
- The border runs for 3000 miles.
- The leash runs along a wire.
- The grain of the wood runs to the right on this table.
- It ran in quality from excellent to substandard.
- (intransitive) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
- The sale will run for ten days.
- The contract runs through 2008.
- The meeting ran late.
- The book runs 655 pages.
- The speech runs as follows:...
- (transitive) To make something extend in space.
- I need to run this wire along the wall.
- (intransitive) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
- My car stopped running.
- That computer runs twenty-four hours a day.
- Buses dont run here on Sunday.
- (transitive) To make a machine operate.
- Its full. You can run the dishwasher now.
- Dont run the engine so fast.
- (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
- They ran twenty blood tests on me and they still dont know whats wrong.
- Our coach had us running plays for the whole practice.
- I will run the sample.
- Dont run that software unless you have permission.
- My computer is too old to run the new OS.
- (transitive or intransitive) To compete in a race.
- The horse will run the Preakness next year.
- Im not ready to run a marathon.
- (intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.
- I have decided to run for governor of California.
- Were trying to find somebody to run against him next year.
- (transitive) To make run in a race or an election.
- He ran his best horse in the Derby.
- The Green Party is running twenty candidates in this election.
- (intransitive) To be presented in one of the media.
- The story will run on the 6-oclock news.
- The latest Robin Williams movie is running at the Silver City theatre.
- Her picture ran on the front page of the newspaper.
- (transitive) To print or broadcast in the media.
- run a story
- run an ad
- (intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion , to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
- He discovered during washing that the red rug ran on his white sheet, staining it pink.
- copulative To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- Our supplies are running low.
- 1968, Paul Simon, Boxer
- I was no more than a boy / In the company of strangers / In the quiet of the railway station / Running scared.
- (transitive) To go through without stopping, usually illegally.
- run a red light or stop sign
- run a blockade
- (transitive) To transport someone or something.
- Could you run me over to the store?
- Please run this report upstairs to directors office.
- (transitive) To smuggle illegal goods.
- run guns
- run rum
- (transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
- Buying a new laptop will run you a thousand dollars.
- Laptops run about a thousand dollars apiece.
- (intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
- (intransitive, soccer) To carry a football down the field.
- (intransitive) Of stitches, to unravel.
- My stocking is running.
- (intransitive) To flee away from a danger or towards help.
- Whenever things get tough, she cuts and runs.
- When hes broke, he runs to me for money.
- (transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
- Looks like were gonna have to run the tomatoes again.
- (intransitive) To control or have precedence in a card game.
- Every three or four hands he would run the table.
- (juggling, colloquial, transitive) To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
Noun
run (plural runs)
- The act of running.
- I just got back from my run.
- The route taken while running or skiing.
- Which run did you do today?
- A flow of liquid; a leak.
- The constant run of water from the faucet annoys me.
- (US) A small creek or part thereof.
- The amount of something made.
- The bookâs initial press run will be 5,000 copies.
- The length of a showing of a play, film, tv series or season or themes/genres of such.
- The run of the show lasted two weeks, and we sold out every night.
- It is the last week of our French cinema run.
- The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
- The horizontal length of a set of stairs
- A production quantity in a factory.
- Yesterday we did a run of 12,000 units.
- A pace faster than a walk.
- He broke into a run.
- (of horses) A fast gallop.
- An interval of distance or time, a period marked by a continuing trend.
- He went to Las Vegas and spent all his money over a three-day run.
- Iâm having a run of bad luck.
- 2011 June 28, Piers Newbery, âWimbledon 2011: Sabine Lisicki beats Marion Bartoliâ, BBC Sport:
- German wildcard Sabine Lisicki conquered her nerves to defeat Frances Marion Bartoli and take her amazing Wimbledon run into the semi-finals.
- A series of tries in a game that were successful.
- A trial of an experiment.
- The data got lost, so Ill have to perform another run of the experiment.
- A regular trip or route.
- The bus on the Cherry Street run is always crowded.
- A standard or unexceptional group or category.
- He stood out from the usual run of applicants.
- An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
- He set up a rabbit run.
- An errand or the journey associated with an errand.
- I need to make a run to the store.
- A pleasure trip.
- Lets go for a run in the car.
- (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
- (baseball, cricket) A point scored in baseball and cricket.
- (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
- A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
- A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
- Financial insecurity led to a run on the banks, as customers feared for the security of their savings.
- Any sudden large demand for something.
- There was a run on Christmas presents.
- Unrestricted use of an area.
- He can have the run of the house.
- A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
- I have a run in my stocking.
- (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
- (construction) horizontal dimension of a slope.
- (Australian, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
Adjective
run (not comparable)
- In a liquid state; melted; molten.
- Put some run butter on the vegetables.
- Exhausted; depleted (especially with ""down"" or ""out"".)
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