run

verb runs · running · ran · run

1. intransitive To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. Run, and you might still catch the train!
2. intransitive To go at a fast pace; to move quickly. I have been running all over the building looking for him.
3. transitive To cover (a course or a distance) by running. I can run a mile, but I can't run the cross-country course.
4. transitive To complete a running course or event in (a given time). I was hoping to make the team, but I didn't run the qualifying time.
5. intransitive To move briskly or smoothly with a motion of sliding, rolling, sweeping etc. The shuttle runs back and forth on these rollers.
6. transitive To cause to move quickly or lightly. Every day I run my dog across the field and back.
7. intransitive, transitive To compete in a race. The horse will run in the Preakness next year.
8. transitive To transport (someone or something), notionally at a brisk pace. Could you run me over to the store?
9. intransitive, transitive Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route). The bus (train, plane, ferry boat, etc) runs between Newport and Riverside.
10. transitive To cause (a vehicle) to travel a route. This year, NJ Transit allowed nonmotorists […] to reach the event by running special trains every 2 hours 4 round trips). The location was the old Lackawanna Railroad freight house, about a 10-minute walk from the Boonton Station, which normally has service only during peak-commuting hours on weekda
11. transitive To transit (a length of a river), as in whitewater rafting. To put it frankly, if you people had to hire others to run the river and survey it for you, if, in short, you can't even run it yourself, why do think you can decide who is and who is not competent? River running, as has been[…]
12. intransitive Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
13. intransitive, transitive To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking. Then, on their second possession, Isaiah Ford ran for 11 yards after abandoning a flea flicker. [...] The Patriots ran the ball just 27 times despite averaging 5 yards per carry.
14. intransitive To flee from a danger or towards help. Whenever things get tough, she cuts and runs.
15. figuratively, transitive To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way. The car in front just ran a red light.
16. colloquial, transitive To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
17. intransitive Of a liquid or electric current, to flow. The river runs through the forest into the North Sea.
18. figuratively, intransitive To move or spread quickly. There's a strange story running around the neighborhood that you had a miscarriage last year.
19. intransitive Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it. Your nose is running.
20. transitive To make a liquid or electric current flow from or into an object. Run the water out into the pool.
21. intransitive To become liquid; to melt. As Wax dissolves, as Ice begins to run,
22. intransitive To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint). During washing, the red from the rug ran onto the white sheet, staining it pink.
23. To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast. to run bullets
24. of a vessel To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
25. transitive To control or manage; to be in charge of. My uncle ran a corner store for forty years.
26. intransitive To be a candidate in an election. I have decided to run for governor of California.
27. transitive To make enter a race. He ran his best horse in the Derby.
28. transitive To make stand in an election. The Green Party is running twenty candidates in this election.
29. To exert continuous activity; to proceed. to run through life; to run in a circle
30. intransitive To be presented in the media. The story will run on the 6-o'clock news.
31. transitive To print or broadcast in the media. run a story; run an ad
32. transitive To smuggle (illegal goods). They are running guns to the rebels.
33. transitive To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control. Looks like we're gonna have to run the tomatoes again.
34. intransitive To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase). The border runs for 3000 miles.
35. intransitive To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase). The sale will run for ten days.
36. transitive To make (something) extend in space. I need to run this wire along the wall.
37. intransitive Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally. My car stopped running.
38. transitive To make a machine operate. It's full. You can run the dishwasher now.
39. transitive To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program. They ran twenty blood tests on me and they still don't know what's wrong.
40. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation. to run from one subject to another
41. copulative To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse). Our food supplies are running low because money is running short.
42. transitive To cost an amount of money. Buying a new laptop will run you a thousand dollars.
43. intransitive Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel. My stocking is running.
44. transitive To cause stitched clothing to unravel. 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure He took off the nylons & had runned one. He said "now I really look like a street whore!"
45. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation. To run the world back to its first original and infancy, and, as it were, to view nature in its cradle,
46. To cause to enter; to thrust. to run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into one's foot
47. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven. They ran the ship aground.
48. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine. to run a line
49. transitive To encounter or incur (a danger or risk). to run the risk of losing one's life
50. obsolete, transitive To put at hazard; to venture; to risk. He would himself be in the Highlands to receive them, and run his fortune with them.
51. obsolete, transitive To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
52. 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.
53. To control or have precedence in a card game. Every three or four hands he would run the table.
54. To be in form thus, as a combination of words. Which Sovereignty, with us, ſo undoubtedly reſideth in the Perſon of the King, that his ordinary Style runneth — Our Sovereign Lord the King: […]
55. archaic To be popularly known; to be generally received. [...]great captains, and even consular men, who first brought them over, took pride in giving them their own names (by which they run a great while in Rome)
56. To have growth or development. Boys and girls run up rapidly.
57. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
58. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company. Certain covenants run with the land.
59. To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune). Don't let me run the fate of all who show indulgence to your sex […].
60. To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.

Similar: gallop, run

noun runs · rin · ren

1. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet. I just got back from my morning run.
2. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily on foot); dash or errand, trip. I need to make a run to the store.
3. A pleasure trip. Let's go for a run in the car.
4. Flight, instance or period of fleeing. During his run from the police, he claimed to have a metaphysical experience which can only be described as “having passed through an abyss.”
5. Migration of fish.
6. collective A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
7. A (regular) trip or route. The bus on the Cherry Street run is always crowded.
8. The route taken while running or skiing. Which run did you do today?
9. A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
10. The distance sailed by a ship. a good run; a run of fifty miles
11. A voyage. a run to China
12. A trial. The data got lost, so I'll have to perform another run of the experiment.
13. The execution of a program or model This morning's run of the SHIPS statistical model gave Hurricane Priscilla a 74% chance of gaining at least 30 knots of intensity in 24 hours, reconfirmed by the HMON and GFS dynamical models.
14. A playthrough, or attempted playthrough; a session of play. This was my first successful run without losing any health.
15. Unrestricted use. Only used in have the run of. He can have the run of the house.
16. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel. He set up a rabbit run.
17. Australia, New Zealand A rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
18. State of being current; currency; popularity. It is impossible for detached papers[...] to have a general run, or long continuance, if they are not diversified[...].
19. A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend. I’m having a run of bad luck.
20. A series of tries in a game that were successful. If our team can keep up their strong defense, expect them to make a run in this tournament.
21. A production quantity (such as in a factory). Yesterday we did a run of 12,000 units.
22. The period of showing of a play, film, TV series, etc. The run of the show lasted two weeks, and we sold out every night.
23. slang A period of extended (usually daily) drug use. And I'll tell ya, things aren't quite the same / When I'm rushing on my run.
24. A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
25. A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
26. A flow of liquid; a leak. The constant run of water from the faucet annoys me.
27. Pennsylvania, Virginia, West A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.) The military campaign near that creek was known as "The battle of Bull Run".
28. A quick pace, faster than a walk. He broke into a run.
29. of horses A fast gallop.
30. 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.
31. Any sudden large demand for something. There was a run on Christmas presents.
32. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
33. The horizontal length of a set of stairs
34. Horizontal dimension of a slope.
35. A standard or unexceptional group or category. He stood out from the usual run of applicants.
36. A stretch when one team heavily outscores the other. After trailing by as much as 12 points in the second half, Florida went on a 8-0 run to get back in the game.
37. slang A basketball game (usually pickup). I’m coming up next month to work for the summer and wanna know where I can get some run or any intel on indoor and outdoor courts.
38. A score when a runner touches all bases legally; the act of a runner scoring.
39. The act of passing from one wicket to another; the point scored for this.
40. A running play. … one of the greatest runs of all time.
41. The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
42. The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
43. The distance drilled with a bit, in oil drilling. Well, when you compare the cone type with the cross roller bit, you get a longer run, there is less tendency of the bit to go flat while running in various formations. It cleans itself better.
44. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking. I have a run in my stocking.
45. The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
46. 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.
47. A pair or set of millstones.
48. One’s gait while running; the way one runs. I think they only have a weird run because their leg hurts.

Similar: execute, start, tread, ladder · Opposite: rise, riser

adjective rin · ren

1. not comparable In a liquid state; melted or molten. Put some run butter on the vegetables.
2. not comparable Cast in a mould. [...] the Sides are generally made of Holland's Tiles, or Plates of run Iron, ornamented variously as Fancy dictates, [...]
3. not comparable Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
4. not comparable, of a zoology Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run. The temperature of the water is consequently much higher than in either England or Scotland, and many newly run salmon will be found in early spring in the upper waters of Irish rivers where obstructions exist.
5. not comparable Smuggled. run brandy

verb rin · ren

1. participle, past past participle of rin

Similar: gallop, run