Word Finder - runs

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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.

He might, if she doesn't die before the sand runs out.

I fought side by side with his older brother years ago at the end of the war; I know the type of honor that runs in his family.

The river now runs W.S.W.

A child knocks itself and runs at once to the arms of its mother or nurse to have the aching spot rubbed or kissed, and it feels better when this is done.

Fred understood this and volunteered to ski with Donnie while the others took a couple of runs from the higher elevations.

Ouray Ice Park, Inc. is a non-profit corporation and runs exclusively on the donations of sponsor members.

Another bank i ioo fathoms from the surface runs south from the east end of Crete, separating the Pola Deep from the depths of the Levant basin, in which a depth of 1960 fathoms was recorded near Makri on the coast of Asia Minor.

The poem runs to over goo lines and is written in eight-lined stanzas.

The common mushroom (Agaricus campestris) is propagated by spores, the fine black dust seen to be thrown off when a mature specimen is laid on white paper or a white dish; these give rise to what is known as the "spawn" or mycelium, which consists of whitish threads permeating dried dung or similar substances, and which, when planted in a proper medium, runs through the mass, and eventually develops the fructification known as the mushroom.

This depression runs nearly from north to south, from the Gulf of Asinara to the Gulf of Cagliari.

A fortnightly line also runs along the west coast of the island from Cagliari to Porto Torres.

From this point the river runs rather east of south for about 25 m.

A third range runs N.E.

When a small calf accompanies its mother, it always runs in front and she appears to guide it by holding the point of her horn upon the little animal's rump; and it is perfectly wonderful to note how in all sudden changes of pace, from a trot to a gallop, or vice versa, the same position is always exactly maintained.

The particular site of Immingham was chosen because the deep-water channel of the Humber, which lower down runs midway between the shores, here makes an inward sweep and leads right to the dock gates, thus obviating much initial dredging, providing ingress and egress at any state of the tide, and rendering the towage of the vessels unnecessary.

You women have to beat that horse until it either dies or gets up and runs.

It then runs west, south and east round the rock-mass of Musher Dagh, and receives (right) the Kuru Chai, down which the Sivas-Malatia road runs, and the Tokhma Su, from Gorun (Gauraina) and Darende.

The railway runs through the centre of the district, with ten stations.

Another railway (completed by 1900) runs from Sfax, along the coast to Mahres, thence inland to Gafsa and the phosphate mines of Metalwi.

The passage at first runs obliquely upwards in the bank, sometimes to a distance of as much as 50 ft., and expands at its termination into a cavity, the floor of which is lined with dried grass and leaves, and in which, it is said, the eggs are laid' and the young brought up. Their food consists of aquatic insects, small crustaceans and worms, which are caught under water, the sand and small stones at the bottom being turned over with their bills to find them.

The line hich starts from Haiphong runs, in Yun-nan, via Mengtsze hsien (a great commercial centre), to the capital.

It is now not only the headquarters of the English naval squadron in the Persian Gulf, and the land terminus of the Indo-European telegraph, but it also forms the chief station in the Gulf of the British India Steam Navigation Company, which runs its vessels weekly between Bombay and Basra.

Geographically it is a table-land, forming the north-east corner of the great plateau of Asia Minor, edged on the north by a lofty mountain rim, along the foot of which runs a fringe of coast-land.

It is this, that whereas the latter produce their chromatic effects by mixing the coloring matter with the glaze, Seif 6 paints the biscuit with a pigment over which he runs a translucid colorless glaze.

The TennesseeVirginia boundary line runs through the principal street, dividing the place into two separate corporations, the Virginia part, which before 1890 (when it was chartered as a city) was known as Goodson, being administratively independent of the county in which it is situated.

The centre of infantry stood on the forward slope of the long spur which runs east from Doon, and beyond them, practically on the plain, was the bulk of the Scottish cavalry.

Sfax was formerly the starting-point of a caravan route to Central Africa, but its inland trade now extends only to the phosphate region beyond Gafsa, reached by a railway which, after skirting the coast southwards from Sfax to Mahares, runs inland past Gafsa.

Along the east side of the peninsula runs the Praya Grande, or Great Quay, the chief promenade in Macao, on which stand the governor's palace, the administrative offices, the consulates and the leading commercial establishments.

The principal street runs from the south or Kandahar gate to the market in front of the citadel, and is covered in with a vaulted roof through its entire length, the shops and buildings of this bazaar being much superior to those of the other streets, and the merchants' caravanserais, several of which are spacious and well built, all opening out on this great thoroughfare.

Its railway mileage in January 1907 was J33.6 m.; the Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington (Pennsylvania system), the Baltimore & Philadelphia (Baltimore & Ohio system), and the Wilmington & Northern (Philadelphia & Reading system) cross the northern part of the state, while the Delaware railway (leased by the Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington) runs the length of the state below Wilmington, and another line, the Maryland, Delaware & Virginia (controlled by the Baltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic railway, which is related to the Pennsylvania system), connects Lewes, Del., with Love Point, Md., on the Chesapeake Bay.

The principle is to have a constriction in the tube above the bulb so proportioned that when the instrument is upright it acts in every way as an ordinary mercurial thermometer, but when it is inverted the thread of mercury breaks at the constriction, and the portion above the point runs down the now reversed tube and remains there as a measure of the temperature at the moment of turning over.

Through all this runs the train of thought resulting naturally from Bruno's fundamental principles, and familiar in modern philosophy as Spinozism, the denial of particular providence, the doctrine of the uselessness of prayer, the identification in a sense of liberty and necessity, and the peculiar definition of good and evil.

Motion is obtained from a continuous-current generator driven by an alternating motor with a very heavy fly-wheel, a combination known as the Ilgner transformer, which runs continuously with a constant draught on the generating station, the extremely variable demand of the winding engine during the acceleration period being met by the energy stored in the fly-wheel, which runs at a very high speed.

The smaller size of the flocks and the breeding of sheep for meat rather than for wool, the cultivation of English grasses and of extensive crops of turnips and other roots on which to fatten sheep and lambs, all tend to change sheep-farming from the mere grazing of huge mobs on wide, unimproved runs held by pastoral licences.

The Great Northern, running west from Spokane, crosses the state in nearly a straight line, and between this road and the Northern Pacific, and parallelingthe Great Northern, runs the recently constructed Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound, the westward extension of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul.

Entering the south-east corner of the state, the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company extends a line northwards to Spokane, and a branch of the Great Northern, leaving the main line at this city, runs north-westward into British Columbia.

The greater part of the state belongs to the western extension of the Brazilian plateau, across which, between the 14th and 16th parallels, runs the water-shed which separates the drainage basins of the Amazon and La Plata.

East of Cape St Jacques the mountains of Annam come down close to the sea; west of that point, as far as the southern headland of Ca-Mau, the coast-line of Cochin-China runs north-east to south-west for about 160 m.

In the case of the original Repsold plan without clockwork the description is not quite exact, because both the process of following the object and correcting the aim are simultaneously performed; whilst, if the clockwork runs uniformly and the friction-disk is set to the proper distance from the apex of the cone, the star will appear almost perfectly at rest, and the observer has only to apply delicate corrections by differential gear - a condition which is exactly analogous to that of training a modern gun-sight upon a fixed object.

The railway runs through the centre of the rice-producing area, and feeder roads open up the country as far as the Shan foot-hills.

The most carefully executed part is on the south and south-east, where the wall is decorated by a row of granite monoliths beneath which runs a double line of chevron ornament.

The Via Egnatia, the great Roman highway to the east, is still used; it runs from Durazzo (Dyrrhachium) to Elbassan and Ochrida.

From south to north it is traversed by the channel of the Parma, crossed here by three bridges; and from east to west runs the line of the Via Aemilia, by which ancient Parma was connected on the one hand with Ariminum (Rimini), and on the other with Placentia (Piacenza).

Below Orleans it takes its course towards the south-west, and lastly from Saumtir runs west, till it reaches the Atlantic between Paimbceuf and St Nazaire.

It formerly joined the Kura; but in 1897 it changed its lower course, and now runs direct to the Kizil-agach Bay of the Caspian.

The two harbours are separated by a mole which runs obliquely into the sea.

As the tableland runs northward it decreases both in height and width, until it narrows to a few miles only, with an elevation of scarcely 1500 ft.; under the name of the Blue Mountains the plateau widens again and increases in altitude, the chief peaks being Mount Clarence(4000 ft.), Mount Victoria (3525 ft.), and Mount Hay (3270 ft.).

This stream, the Murray, in the upper part of its course runs in a north-westerly direction, but afterwards turning southwards, almost at a right angle, expands into Lake Alexandrina on the south coast, about 60 m.

A branch runs from Karshi to Kitab, and the intention was to join Kitab to Samarkand.

The Bernam runs through flat swampy country for the greater part of its course, and steam-launches can penetrate to a distance of over 100 m.