verb
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To run.
noun
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Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
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I just got back from my morning run.
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Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
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I need to make a run to the store.
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A pleasure trip.
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Let's go for a run in the car.
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Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
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Migration (of fish).
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A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
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A path taken by literal movement or figuratively
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An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
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He set up a rabbit run.
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Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
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State of being current; currency; popularity.
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Continuous or sequential
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A flow of liquid; a leak.
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The constant run of water from the faucet annoys me.
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(West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)
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The military campaign near that creek was known as "The battle of Bull Run".
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A quick pace, faster than a walk.
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He broke into a run.
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A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
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Financial insecurity led to a run on the banks, as customers feared for the security of their savings.
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Any sudden large demand for something.
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There was a run on Christmas presents.
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Various horizontal dimensions or surfaces
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A standard or unexceptional group or category.
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He stood out from the usual run of applicants.
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In sports
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A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
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I have a run in my stocking.
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The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
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The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
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A pair or set of millstones.
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To move swiftly.
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(fluids) To flow.
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(of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
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To control or manage, be in charge of.
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He is running the candidate's expensive campaign.
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To be a candidate in an election.
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I have decided to run for governor of California.
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To make run in a race or an election.
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He ran his best horse in the Derby.
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To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
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to run through life; to run in a circle
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To be presented in the media.
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Her picture ran on the front page of the newspaper.
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To print or broadcast in the media.
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run a story; run an ad
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To smuggle (illegal goods).
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to run guns; to run rum
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To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
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Looks like we're gonna have to run the tomatoes again.
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To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
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To execute or carry out a plan, procedure or program.
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Don't run that software unless you have permission.
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To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
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to run from one subject to another
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To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
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Our supplies are running low.
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To cost a large amount of money.
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Buying a new laptop will run you a thousand dollars.
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Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
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My stocking is running.
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To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
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To cause to enter; to thrust.
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to run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into one's foot
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To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
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To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
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to run a line
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To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
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to run the risk of losing one's life
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To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
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To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
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To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
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To control or have precedence in a card game.
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Every three or four hands he would run the table.
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To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
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To be popularly known; to be generally received.
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To have growth or development.
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Boys and girls run up rapidly.
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To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
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To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
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Certain covenants run with the land.
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To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
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To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
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To speedrun.
adjective
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In a liquid state; melted or molten.
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Put some run butter on the vegetables.
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Cast in a mould.
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Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
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(of a zoology) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.
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Smuggled.
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run brandy
Examples of run in a Sentence
I didn't run away.
I could have run away from my father, as I wanted to.
The child can't just run off across the country.
Little calf does run and leap in field.
And she set off at a run along the passage.
We thought it was far south over the woods--we who had run to fires before--barn, shop, or dwelling-house, or all together.
What makes families run out?
We can't run sixty miles in an hour, so we make cars.
I don't want to run your life.
I'll teach you to run into the yards!
It would have been easier to run off and leave them.
We were set to run renewed sessions on Saturday but on Thursday Martha telephoned in tears.
She gasped and turned to run, but he reached out and grabbed her.
You're in no condition to run around town.
Then you wouldn't have run off that cliff.
Where has she run off to?
No. We have to stick around and run Econ.
Petya! exclaimed Denisov, having run through the dispatch.
The man was run down by a detective from After.
When all the factories run themselves, when energy is free, when scarcity is ended, when material needs are all met, it will be a different world.
In the past, impetuous young men would drop out of college and run off to join the army.
She was letting her imagination run wild again.
It's not like I'm asking you to run away with me.
She wanted to run but her feet wouldn't move.
Yet in reality, five individuals, some joined by love, some nearly strangers and others with a history, that might surface and run amuck.
Her throat quivered with convulsive sobs and, afraid of weakening and letting the force of her anger run to waste, she turned and rushed headlong up the stairs.
It's been a good run and many lives have been saved.
I was basically told to keep off your back but no one mentioned I should run errands for you.
One of the chairs pushed back from the table, and this was so astonishing and mysterious that Dorothy was almost tempted to run away in fright.
She forced herself to walk, not run, back to the house.
He broke into a run when he reached the country road leading away from the compound.
You ready to run?
Jesus, how fast can you run?
So he sat down upon the floor of the cave, brought the piglets out one by one, and allowed them to run around as much as they pleased.
There was a beautiful canopy for Ozma and her guests to sit under and watch the people run races and jump and wrestle.
Robert and I will run and jump and hop and dance and swing and talk about birds and flowers and trees and grass and Jumbo and Pearl will go with us.
One fair-haired young soldier of the third company, whom Prince Andrew knew and who had a strap round the calf of one leg, crossed himself, stepped back to get a good run, and plunged into the water; another, a dark noncommissioned officer who was always shaggy, stood up to his waist in the water joyfully wriggling his muscular figure and snorted with satisfaction as he poured the water over his head with hands blackened to the wrists.
He already knew she was here, and it wasn't as though she could run and hide.
I never would have believed he would run off and leave us like that.
And Croesus was so amazed that he endowed the Oracle at Delphi with all kinds of gifts and planned to run all-important questions by this oracle.
It should know what the food on my fork weighs, run a chemical analysis of every bite I take, and log it in my Digital Echo file for my future reference.
Now they drop out of college and run off to start corporations.
When I first paddled a boat on Walden, it was completely surrounded by thick and lofty pine and oak woods, and in some of its coves grape-vines had run over the trees next the water and formed bowers under which a boat could pass.
Having everyone run her life was getting old.
She had nearly run him down, slapped his face and taken him away from his work in less than twenty-four hours.
Then Howie asked if we'd try to run a session this weekend, long distance, by phone.
I can run naked.
I.ve got to run to the restroom.
Essentially, we will be able to run as many controlled experiments as we can imagine instantly and for no cost—and that will revolutionize medicine.
The hungrier people were ... the less likely they were to run away.