verb

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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.

noun

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The action of the verb to run.

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His running of the business leaves something to be desired.

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The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason

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Running is good exercise.

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That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.

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the first running of a still

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The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.

adjective

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Moving or advancing at a run.

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Present, current.

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running month

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Flowing; easy; cursive.

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running handwriting

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Continuous; ongoing; keeping along step by step.

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a running explanation

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Having a continuous design or pattern.

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running bond; running ornament

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Consecutive.

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Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.

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a running vine

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Discharging pus.

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a running sore

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(of a nose) Discharging snot or mucus.

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a running nose

adverb

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Consecutively; in a row

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Mom's strawberry jam won the blue ribbon at the Holland County Fair three years running.

preposition

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Approaching; about; roughly.

Examples of running in a Sentence

You're running out of time, she said.

Her heart was running a marathon.

I always end up running back to Father.

Running felt so good.

I can't see any of the girls running the ranch... or wanting to, for that matter.

I wasn't the one running away.

His face turned scarlet and he looked away, running a hand through his hair.

The last thing I want is a half-dozen little brats running around here tearing things up.

Who's that running on the middle of the bridge?

She closed her eyes and resurrected the sound of whippoorwills and running water.

Yes, he took the bait and he was running with it.

The recorder remained running.

Running downstairs to my mother I held up my hand and made the letters for doll.

There was running to and fro and whispering; another troyka flew furiously up, and then all eyes were turned on an approaching sleigh in which the figures of the Emperor and Volkonski could already be descried.

She was forming a habit of running from feelings.

For the first time in his life, he felt like running away from something.

Are you running back to check on your parents again?

Bad guys were everywhere and children running away.

I'm the one who's running.

The cook began running hither and thither in the passage like a frightened hen, just as Alpatych entered.

We're running into a little turbulence from the storm.

In the mean time, maybe if she stopped running, he'd stop chasing.

As they climbed out of the car, a screen door squealed on the front porch and a short stocky man emerged, running a hand through graying hair.

He deposited the package in her outstretched hands and turned, running down the hall.

You know Cade; you could make a profit off this ranch other ways than running cattle.

There was blood running down his pant leg but he ran on his leg so it couldn't have been too bad.

Irv Goldman was in charge of their ill-conceived venture while it was running, so their switch board tells me.

After telling me the contest was over, something I'd just told her, she reluctantly transferred me to Irv Goldman who was in charge of the contest while it was running.

The BOLO said you're probably running from bad guys.

She'd jumped the two stories to the ground and was running towards a large garage.

She eased into the carport but left the car running.

Not wanting to be around to hear Claire get her way, Sofia climbed onto the edge of Damian's balcony and stretched upward toward the ledge running around the mansion.

She twisted her head to see the jumbled outlines of the small army of vamps running toward them from the direction of the burning mountain.

Finally, after ten minutes of silence passed, they heard the sound of feet running down the slope on the other side of the rise above them.

I did you the favor of running your prints years ago.

I'm running for election against this guy.

You ain't running unopposed no more.

I'm not sure running against Lydia will be any easier than taking on Fitzgerald.

Just count your blessings he's out of the running and now you're a slam-dunk to become Sheriff David Dean.

I guess you're pissed at me for running against you.

He was disheartened that Dean had no intention of running over to the crime scene, where Dean had no business whatsoever.

The soft bed was warm from her body heat, and she found herself running a hand over the downy comforter while she tried to understand the emotions within her.

The trail was narrow enough that she found herself running into his frame or leaning against him.

The intestine is slung by a median dorsal and ventral mesentery which divides the body cavity into two symmetrically shaped halves; it is " stayed " by two transverse septa, the anterior or gastroparietal band running from the stomach to the body wall and the posterior or ileoparietal band running from the intestine to the body wall.

Interior of dorsal small arm-sinus and, running valve.

There is a special marginal nerve running round the edge of the mantle, but the connexion of this with the rest of the nervous system is not clear; probably it is merely another concentration of the diffused sub-ectodermal nervous fibrils.

The nerves running to the dorsal parts are white, with black edges; those running to the ventral parts are solid black.

Galicia is traversed by mountain ranges, sometimes regarded as a continuation of the Cantabrian chain; and its surface is further broken in the east by the westernmost ridges of that system, which, running in a south-westerly direction, rise above the basin of the Mino.

It is the terminus of steamer navigation on the Brahmaputra, and also of a railway running to important coal-mines and petroleum wells, which connects with the Assam-Bengal system.

Young Marryat distinguished himself as a boy by frequently running away to go to sea; and at last, at the age of fourteen, he was allowed to enter the navy.

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