Meaning of run | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To move swiftly.
   intransitive
2. To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot.
   intransitive
3. race
4. To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
   intransitive
5. To find by chance; come upon.
6. run (act of running)
7. To cover (a course or a distance) by running.
   transitive
8. To go away; leave.
9. To complete a running course or event in (a given time).
   transitive
10. To make or become greater or larger: ran up huge bills; run up the price of the company's stock.
11. college degree, major, main course of study
12. To move briskly or smoothly with a motion of sliding, rolling, sweeping etc.
    intransitive
13. Strong competition.
14. career
15. To cause to move quickly or lightly.
    transitive
16. In the final analysis or outcome.
17. To compete in a race.
    intransitive, transitive
18. In the immediate future.
19. To transport (someone or something), notionally at a brisk pace.
    transitive
20. To have a higher than normal body temperature.
21. Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
    intransitive, transitive
22. To go through the movements of running without leaving one's original position.
23. To cause (a vehicle) to travel a route.
    transitive
24. To deal with problems or difficult matters for someone else.
25. To transit (a length of a river), as in whitewater rafting.
    transitive
26. To talk excessively or indiscreetly.
27. Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
    intransitive
28. To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
    intransitive, transitive
29. To flee from a danger or towards help.
    intransitive
30. To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
    figuratively, transitive
31. To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
    colloquial, transitive
32. To flow.
    intransitive
33. Of a liquid, to flow.
    intransitive
34. To move or spread quickly.
    figuratively, intransitive
35. Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
    intransitive
36. To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from or into an object.
    transitive
37. To become liquid; to melt.
    intransitive
38. To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
    intransitive
39. To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
40. To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
41. To control or manage; to be in charge of.
    transitive
42. To be a candidate in an election.
    intransitive
43. To make participate in certain kinds of competitions.
    transitive
44. To make enter a race.
    transitive
45. To make stand in an election.
    transitive
46. To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
47. To be presented in the media.
    intransitive
48. To print or broadcast in the media.
    transitive
49. To smuggle (illegal goods).
    transitive
50. To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
    transitive
51. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
    intransitive
52. To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
    intransitive
53. To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
    intransitive
54. To make (something) extend in space.
    transitive
55. Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
    intransitive
56. To make a machine operate.
    transitive
57. To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
    transitive
58. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
59. To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
    copulative
60. To cost an amount of money.
    transitive
61. Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
    intransitive
62. To cause stitched clothing to unravel.
    transitive
63. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
64. To cause to enter; to thrust.
65. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
66. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
67. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
    transitive
68. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
    obsolete, transitive
69. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
    obsolete, transitive
70. 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.
71. To control or have precedence in a card game.
72. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
73. To be popularly known; to be generally received.
    archaic
74. To have growth or development.
75. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
76. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
77. To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
78. To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
79. To speedrun.
    rare
80. To eject from a game or match.
    especially
81. To press (a bank, etc.) with immediate demands for payment.

Equivalents

Examples

“Run, and you might still catch the train!”

“Through the open front door ran Jessamy, down the steps to where Kitto was sitting at the bottom with the pram beside him.”

“I have been running all over the building looking for him.”

“Sorry, I've got to run; my house is on fire!”

“Once I ran to you (I ran) / Now I run from you / This tainted love you've given / I give you all a boy could give you”

“I can run a mile, but I can't run the cross-country course.”

“I was hoping to make the team, but I didn't run the qualifying time.”

“The shuttle runs back and forth on these rollers.”

“As its name suggests, the monorail runs on a single rail.”

“I felt her fingers running over my cheek.”

“Every day I run my dog across the field and back.”

“I'll just run the vacuum cleaner over the carpet.”

“Run your fingers through my hair.”

“Run a flag up (the pole/mast)”

“Challenger and I ran Summerlee along, one at each of his elbows, while Lord John covered our retreat, firing again and again as savage heads snarled at us out of the bushes.”

“The horse will run in the Preakness next year.”

“I'm not ready to run a marathon.”

“The car could not be repaired in time for the race and did not run.”

“Could you run me over to the store?”

“Please run this report upstairs to director's office.”

“The bus (train, plane, ferry boat, etc) runs between Newport and Riverside.”

“Small planes run between Alor and Langkawi. BUS: Express busses leave the bus terminal on the corner of Jl. Langgar and Jl. Stesyen for K. Kedah, […]”

“The first steam ferry or tug, the Little Minnie, ran the river in the 1870s. When vehicles were to cross, a barge was affixed to the Minnie to carry them.”

“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 weekdays.”

“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[…]”

“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.”

“Whenever things get tough, she cuts and runs.”

“When he's broke, he runs to me for money.”

“When the alarm went off, the thief dropped the booty and ran.”

“The car in front just ran a red light.”

“If you have a collision with a vehicle oncoming from the right, after having run priority to the right, you are at fault.”

“The river runs through the forest into the North Sea.”

“There's blood running down your leg.”

“There's a strange story running around the neighborhood that you had a miscarriage last year.”

“The flu is running through my daughter's kindergarten.”

“Your nose is running and your forehead is running with sweat.”

“Why is the hose still running?”

“I got tears running down my cheeks because he smoke of cigars makes my eyes run.”

“I can't stop my nose from running snot down into my mouth.”

“Could you run a bath for me, please? You'll have to run the water a while before it gets hot.”

“As Wax dissolves, as Ice begins to run,”

“The Sussex ores run pretty freely in the Fire for Iron-Ores; otherwise they would hardly be worth working.”

“During washing, the red from the rug ran onto the white sheet, staining it pink.”

“to run bullets”

“But, my Lord, the fairest Diamonds are rough till they are polished, and the purest Gold must be run and washed, and sifted in the Oar.”

“My uncle ran a corner store for forty years.”

“She runs the fundraising.”

“My parents think they run my life.”

“He is running the candidate's expensive campaign.”

“A friend of mine who runs an intellectual magazine was grousing about his movie critic, complaining that though the fellow had liked The Godfather (page 58), he had neglected to label it clearly as a masterpiece.”

“India is run by gerontocrats and epigones: grey hairs and groomed heirs.”

“I have decided to run for governor of California.”

“We're trying to find somebody to run against him next year.”

“He ran his best horse in the Derby.”

“We're running two cars in today's rally.”

“The Green Party is running twenty candidates in this election.”

“to run through life; to run in a circle”

“The story will run on the 6-o'clock news.”

“The latest Robin Williams movie is running at the Silver City theatre.”

“Her picture ran on the front page of the newspaper.”

“run a story; run an ad”

“They are running guns to the rebels.”

“[...]whereas in the business of laying heavy impositions two and two never made more than one ; which happens by lessening the import, and the strong temptation of running such goods as paid high duties”

“Looks like we're gonna have to run the tomatoes again.”

“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.”

“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: …”

“I need to run this wire along the wall.”

“My car stopped running.”

“That computer runs twenty-four hours a day.”

“The buses don't run on Sundays.”

“It's full. You can run the dishwasher now.”

“Don't run the engine so fast.”

“They ran twenty blood tests on me and they still don't know what's wrong.”

“Our coach had us running plays for the whole practice.”

“I will run the sample.”

“Don't run that software unless you have permission.”

“My computer is too old to run the new OS.”

“to run from one subject to another”

“Virgil was so well acquainted with this Secret, that to set off his first Georgic, he has run into a set of Precepts, which are almost foreign to his Subject,”

“Our food supplies are running low because money is running short.”

“They frequently overspent and soon ran into debt.”

“Tap water always runs freezing cold before running dry.”

“Have I not cause to rave, and beat my breast, / To rend my heart with grief and run distracted?”

“I was no more than a boy / In the company of strangers / In the quiet of the railway station / Running scared.”

“Buying a new laptop will run you a thousand dollars.”

“Laptops run about a thousand dollars apiece.”

“My stocking is running.”

“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!"”

“To run the world back to its first original and infancy, and, as it were, to view nature in its cradle,”

“Methinks, if it might be, I would gladly understand the Formation of a Soul, run it up to its Punctum Saliens, and see it beat the first conscious Pulse.”

“to run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into one's foot”

““You run your head into the lion's mouth,” answered Mac-Ivor.”

“With that he took off his great-coat, and having run his fingers through his hair, thrust one hand gently in the bosom of his waistcoat”

“There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;[…].”

“They ran the ship aground.”

“[...]besides all this, a talkative person must needs be impertinent, and speak many idle words, and so render himself burdensome and odious to Company, and may perchance run himself upon great Inconveniences, by blabbing out his own or other’s Secrets;”

“[...]and others, accustomed to retired speculations, run natural philosophy into metaphysical notions and the abstract generalities of logic ;”

“to run a line”

“to run the risk of losing one's life”

“He runneth two dangers.”

“He would himself be in the Highlands to receive them, and run his fortune with them.”

“Every three or four hands he would run the table.”

“Which Sovereignty, with us, ſo undoubtedly reſideth in the Perſon of the King, that his ordinary Style runneth — Our Sovereign Lord the King: […]”

“The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running: “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.””

“[...]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)”

“Neither was he ignorant what report ran of himselfe.”

“Boys and girls run up rapidly.”

“or the Richness of the Ground cause them [turnips] to run too much to Leaves”

“A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.”

“It hath been observed, that the temperate climates usually run into moderate governments, and the extremes into despotic power.”

“Certain covenants run with the land.”

“Customs run only upon our goods imported or exported, and that but once for all; whereas interest runs as well upon our ships as goods, and must be yearly paid.”

“Don't let me run the fate of all who show indulgence to your sex […].”

“Jackson got himself run in the top of the sixth for arguing a borderline strike three call.”

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