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7 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Run \Run\ (r[u^]n), v. i. [imp. {Ran} (r[a^]n) or {Run}; p. p.
{Run}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Running}.] [OE. rinnen, rennen (imp.
ran, p. p. runnen, ronnen). AS. rinnan to flow (imp. ran, p.
p. gerunnen), and iernan, irnan, to run (imp. orn, arn, earn,
p. p. urnen); akin to D. runnen, rennen, OS. & OHG. rinnan,
G. rinnen, rennen, Icel. renna, rinna, Sw. rinna, r[aum]nna,
Dan. rinde, rende, Goth. rinnan, and perh. to L. oriri to
rise, Gr. 'orny`nai to stir up, rouse, Skr. [.r] (cf.
{Origin}), or perh. to L. rivus brook (cf. {Rival}).
[root]11. Cf. {Ember}, a., {Rennet}.]
1. To move, proceed, advance, pass, go, come, etc., swiftly,
smoothly, or with quick action; -- said of things animate
or inanimate. Hence, to flow, glide, or roll onward, as a
stream, a snake, a wagon, etc.; to move by quicker action
than in walking, as a person, a horse, a dog.
Specifically:
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2. Of voluntary or personal action:
(a) To go swiftly; to pass at a swift pace; to hasten.
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"Ha, ha, the fox!" and after him they ran.
--Chaucer.
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(b) To flee, as from fear or danger.
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As from a bear a man would run for life. --Shak.
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(c) To steal off; to depart secretly.
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(d) To contend in a race; hence, to enter into a contest;
to become a candidate; as, to run for Congress.
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Know ye not that they which run in a race run
all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that
ye may obtain. --1 Cor. ix.
24.
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(e) To pass from one state or condition to another; to
come into a certain condition; -- often with in or
into; as, to run into evil practices; to run in debt.
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Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast, to
rend my heart with grief and run distracted?
--Addison.
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(f) To exert continuous activity; to proceed; as, to run
through life; to run in a circle.
(g) To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation; as,
to run from one subject to another.
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Virgil, in his first Georgic, has run into a set
of precepts foreign to his subject. --Addison.
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(h) To discuss; to continue to think or speak about
something; -- with on.
(i) To make numerous drafts or demands for payment, as
upon a bank; -- with on.
(j) To creep, as serpents.
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3. Of involuntary motion:
(a) To flow, as a liquid; to ascend or descend; to course;
as, rivers run to the sea; sap runs up in the spring;
her blood ran cold.
(b) To proceed along a surface; to extend; to spread.
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The fire ran along upon the ground. --Ex. ix.
23.
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(c) To become fluid; to melt; to fuse.
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As wax dissolves, as ice begins to run.
--Addison.
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Sussex iron ores run freely in the fire.
--Woodward.
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(d) To turn, as a wheel; to revolve on an axis or pivot;
as, a wheel runs swiftly round.
(e) To travel; to make progress; to be moved by mechanical
means; to go; as, the steamboat runs regularly to
Albany; the train runs to Chicago.
(f) To extend; to reach; as, the road runs from
Philadelphia to New York; the memory of man runneth
not to the contrary.
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She saw with joy the line immortal run,
Each sire impressed, and glaring in his son.
--Pope.
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(g) To go back and forth from place to place; to ply; as,
the stage runs between the hotel and the station.
(h) To make progress; to proceed; to pass.
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As fast as our time runs, we should be very glad
in most part of our lives that it ran much
faster. --Addison.
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(i) To continue in operation; to be kept in action or
motion; as, this engine runs night and day; the mill
runs six days in the week.
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When we desire anything, our minds run wholly on
the good circumstances of it; when it is
obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.
--Swift.
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(j) To have a course or direction; as, a line runs east
and west.
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Where the generally allowed practice runs
counter to it. --Locke.
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Little is the wisdom, where the flight
So runs against all reason. --Shak.
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(k) To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
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The king's ordinary style runneth, "Our
sovereign lord the king." --Bp.
Sanderson.
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(l) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
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Men gave them their own names, by which they run
a great while in Rome. --Sir W.
Temple.
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Neither was he ignorant what report ran of
himself. --Knolles.
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(m) To have growth or development; as, boys and girls run
up rapidly.
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If the richness of the ground cause turnips to
run to leaves. --Mortimer.
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(n) To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
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A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
--Bacon.
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Temperate climates run into moderate
governments. --Swift.
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(o) To spread and blend together; to unite; as, colors run
in washing.
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In the middle of a rainbow the colors are . . .
distinguished, but near the borders they run
into one another. --I. Watts.
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(p) To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in
force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in
company; as, certain covenants run with the land.
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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. --Sir J.
Child.
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(q) To continue without falling due; to hold good; as, a
note has thirty days to run.
(r) To discharge pus or other matter; as, an ulcer runs.
(s) To be played on the stage a number of successive days
or nights; as, the piece ran for six months.
(t) (Naut.) To sail before the wind, in distinction from
reaching or sailing closehauled; -- said of vessels.
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4. Specifically, of a horse: To move rapidly in a gait in
which each leg acts in turn as a propeller and a
supporter, and in which for an instant all the limbs are
gathered in the air under the body. --Stillman (The Horse
in Motion).
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5. (Athletics) To move rapidly by springing steps so that
there is an instant in each step when neither foot touches
the ground; -- so distinguished from walking in athletic
competition.
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{As things run}, according to the usual order, conditions,
quality, etc.; on the average; without selection or
specification.
{To let run} (Naut.), to allow to pass or move freely; to
slacken or loosen.
{To run after}, to pursue or follow; to search for; to
endeavor to find or obtain; as, to run after similes.
--Locke.
{To run away}, to flee; to escape; to elope; to run without
control or guidance.
{To run away with}.
(a) To convey away hurriedly; to accompany in escape or
elopement.
(b) To drag rapidly and with violence; as, a horse runs
away with a carriage.
{To run down}.
(a) To cease to work or operate on account of the
exhaustion of the motive power; -- said of clocks,
watches, etc.
(b) To decline in condition; as, to run down in health.
{To run down a coast}, to sail along it.
{To run for an office}, to stand as a candidate for an
office.
{To run in} or {To run into}.
(a) To enter; to step in.
(b) To come in collision with.
{To run into} To meet, by chance; as, I ran into my brother
at the grocery store.
{To run in trust}, to run in debt; to get credit. [Obs.]
{To run in with}.
(a) To close; to comply; to agree with. [R.] --T. Baker.
(b) (Naut.) To make toward; to near; to sail close to; as,
to run in with the land.
{To run mad}, {To run mad after} or {To run mad on}. See
under {Mad}.
{To run on}.
(a) To be continued; as, their accounts had run on for a
year or two without a settlement.
(b) To talk incessantly.
(c) To continue a course.
(d) To press with jokes or ridicule; to abuse with
sarcasm; to bear hard on.
(e) (Print.) To be continued in the same lines, without
making a break or beginning a new paragraph.
{To run out}.
(a) To come to an end; to expire; as, the lease runs out
at Michaelmas.
(b) To extend; to spread. "Insectile animals . . . run all
out into legs." --Hammond.
(c) To expatiate; as, to run out into beautiful
digressions.
(d) To be wasted or exhausted; to become poor; to become
extinct; as, an estate managed without economy will
soon run out.
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And had her stock been less, no doubt
She must have long ago run out. --Dryden.
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{To run over}.
(a) To overflow; as, a cup runs over, or the liquor runs
over.
(b) To go over, examine, or rehearse cursorily.
(c) To ride or drive over; as, to run over a child.
{To run riot}, to go to excess.
{To run through}.
(a) To go through hastily; as to run through a book.
(b) To spend wastefully; as, to run through an estate.
{To run to seed}, to expend or exhaust vitality in producing
seed, as a plant; figuratively and colloquially, to cease
growing; to lose vital force, as the body or mind.
{To run up}, to rise; to swell; to grow; to increase; as,
accounts of goods credited run up very fast.
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But these, having been untrimmed for many years, had
run up into great bushes, or rather dwarf trees.
--Sir W.
Scott.
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{To run with}.
(a) To be drenched with, so that streams flow; as, the
streets ran with blood.
(b) To flow while charged with some foreign substance.
"Its rivers ran with gold." --J. H. Newman.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Running \Run"ning\, n.
The act of one who, or of that which runs; as, the running
was slow.
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2. That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which
flows in a certain time or during a certain operation; as,
the first running of a still.
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3. The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
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{At long running}, in the long run. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Running \Run"ning\, a.
1. Moving or advancing by running. Specifically, of a horse:
(a) Having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
(b) trained and kept for running races; as, a running
horse. --Law.
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2. Successive; one following the other without break or
intervention; -- said of periods of time; as, to be away
two days running; to sow land two years running.
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3. Flowing; easy; cursive; as, a running hand.
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4. Continuous; keeping along step by step; as, he stated the
facts with a running explanation. "A running conquest."
--Milton.
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What are art and science if not a running commentary
on Nature? --Hare.
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5. (Bot.) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem;
as, a running vine.
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6. (Med.) Discharging pus; as, a running sore.
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{Running block} (Mech.), a block in an arrangement of pulleys
which rises or sinks with the weight which is raised or
lowered.
{Running board}, a narrow platform extending along the side
of a locomotive.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
running
adj 1: moving quickly on foot; "heard running footsteps behind him"
[syn: {running(a)}]
2: (of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream; "a mountain
stream with freely running water"; "hovels without running
water" [syn: {running(a)}] [ant: {standing(a)}]
3: continually repeated over a period of time; "a running joke
among us" [syn: {running(a)}]
4: of advancing the ball by running; "the team's running plays
worked better than its pass plays" [syn: {running(a)}]
[ant: {passing(a)}]
5: executed or initiated by running; "running plays worked
better than pass plays"; "took a running jump"; "a running
start" [syn: {running(a)}] [ant: {standing(a)}]
6: measured lengthwise; "cost of lumber per running foot" [syn:
{linear}, {running(a)}]
7: (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing; "in
running (or working) order"; "a functional set of brakes"
[syn: {running(a)}, {operative}, {functional}, {working(a)}]
n 1: (American football) a play in which a player runs with the
ball; "the defensive line braced to stop the run"; "the
coach put great emphasis on running" [syn: {run}, {running
play}, {running game}]
2: the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace; "he
broke into a run"; "his daily run keeps him fit" [syn: {run}]
3: the state of being in operation; "the engine is running
smoothly"
4: the act of administering or being in charge of something;
"he has responsibility for the running of two companies at
the same time"
5: the act of participating in an athletic competition
involving running on a track [syn: {track}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
run
n 1: a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases
safely; "the Yankees scored 3 runs in the bottom of the
9th"; "their first tally came in the 3rd inning" [syn: {tally}]
2: the act of testing something; "in the experimental trials
the amount of carbon was measured separately"; "he called
each flip of the coin a new trial" [syn: {test}, {trial}]
3: a race run on foot; "she broke the record for the half-mile
run" [syn: {footrace}, {foot race}]
4: an unbroken series of events; "had a streak of bad luck";
"Nicklaus had a run of birdies" [syn: {streak}]
5: (American football) a play in which a player runs with the
ball; "the defensive line braced to stop the run"; "the
coach put great emphasis on running" [syn: {running}, {running
play}, {running game}]
6: a regular trip; "the ship made its run in record time"
7: the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace; "he
broke into a run"; "his daily run keeps him fit" [syn: {running}]
8: the continuous period of time during which something (a
machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation;
"the assembly line was on a 12-hour run"
9: unrestricted freedom to use; "he has the run of the house"
10: the production achieved during a continuous period of
operation (of a machine or factory etc.); "a daily run of
100,000 gallons of paint"
11: a small stream [syn: {rivulet}, {rill}, {runnel}, {streamlet}]
12: a race between candidates for elective office; "I managed
his campaign for governor"; "he is raising money for a
Senate run" [syn: {political campaign}, {campaign}]
13: a row of unravelled stitches; "she got a run in her
stocking" [syn: {ladder}, {ravel}]
14: the pouring forth of a fluid [syn: {discharge}, {outpouring}]
15: an unbroken chronological sequence; "the play had a long run
on Broadway"; "the team enjoyed a brief run of victories"
16: a short trip; "take a run into town"
v 1: move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground
at any given time; "Don't run--you'll be out of breath";
"The children ran to the store"
2: flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this
man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed
up" [syn: {scarper}, {turn tail}, {lam}, {run away}, {hightail
it}, {bunk}, {head for the hills}, {take to the woods}, {escape},
{fly the coop}, {break away}]
3: stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or
extend between two points or beyond a certain point;
"Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge
doesn't go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth
year of life"; "The facts extend beyond a consideration of
her personal assets" [syn: {go}, {pass}, {lead}, {extend}]
4: direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.; "She is
running a relief operation in the Sudan" [syn: {operate}]
5: have a particular form; "the story or argument runs as
follows"; "as the saying goes..." [syn: {go}]
6: move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the
Missouri feeds into the Mississippi" [syn: {flow}, {feed},
{course}]
7: perform as expected when applied; "The washing machine won't
go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run
well?"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore" [syn: {function},
{work}, {operate}, {go}] [ant: {malfunction}]
8: change or be different within limits; "Estimates for the
losses in the earthquake range as high as $2 billion";
"Interest rates run from 5 to 10 percent"; "The
instruments ranged from tuba to cymbals"; "My students
range from very bright to dull" [syn: {range}]
9: run, stand, or compete for an office or a position; "Who's
running for treasurer this year?" [syn: {campaign}]
10: cause to emit recorded sounds; "They ran the tapes over and
over again"; "Can you play my favorite record?" [syn: {play}]
11: move about freely and without restraint, or act as if
running around in an uncontrolled way; "who are these
people running around in the building?"; "She runs around
telling everyone of her troubles"; "let the dogs run
free"
12: have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be
inclined; "She tends to be nervous before her lectures";
"These dresses run small"; "He inclined to corpulence"
[syn: {tend}, {be given}, {lean}, {incline}]
13: carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a
machine; "Run the dishwasher"; "run a new program on the
Mac"; "the computer executed the instruction" [syn: {execute}]
14: be operating, running or functioning; "The car is still
running--turn it off!" [ant: {idle}]
15: change from one state to another; "run amok"; "run rogue";
"run riot"
16: cause to perform; "run a subject"; "run a process"
17: be affected by; be subjected to; "run a temperature"; "run a
risk"
18: continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of
Elvis endures" [syn: {prevail}, {persist}, {die hard}, {endure}]
19: occur persistently; "Musical talent runs in the family"
20: include as the content; broadcast or publicize; "We ran the
ad three times"; "This paper carries a restaurant
review"; "All major networks carried the press
conference" [syn: {carry}]
21: carry out; "run an errand"
22: guide or pass over something; "He ran his eyes over her
body"; "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine";
"He drew her hair through his fingers" [syn: {guide}, {draw},
{pass}]
23: cause something to pass or lead somewhere; "Run the wire
behind the cabinet" [syn: {lead}]
24: make without a miss
25: deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor [syn: {black
market}]
26: cause an animal to move fast; "run the dogs"
27: be diffused; "These dyes and colors are guaranteed not to
run" [syn: {bleed}]
28: sail before the wind
29: cover by running; run a certain distance; "She ran 10 miles
that day"
30: extend or continue for a certain period of time; "The film
runs 5 hours" [syn: {run for}]
31: set animals loose to graze
32: keep company; "the heifers run with the bulls ot produce
offspring" [syn: {consort}]
33: run with the ball; in such sports as football
34: travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means; "Run to the
store!"; "She always runs to Italy, because she has a
lover there"
35: travel a route regularly; "Ships ply the waters near the
coast" [syn: {ply}]
36: pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); "Goering
often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running
deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods" [syn: {hunt}, {hunt
down}, {track down}]
37: compete in a race; "he is running the Marathon this year";
"let's race and see who gets there first" [syn: {race}]
38: progress by being changed; "The speech has to go through
several more drafts"; "run through your presentation
before the meeting" [syn: {move}, {go}]
39: reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid
state, usually by heating; "melt butter"; "melt down
gold"; "The wax melted in the sun" [syn: {melt}, {melt
down}]
40: come unraveled or undone as if by snagging; "Her nylons were
running" [syn: {ladder}]
41: become undone; "the sweater unraveled" [syn: {unravel}]
[also: {running}, {ran}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
running
See {run}
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
374 Moby Thesaurus words for "running":
acting, action, active, activity, actual, actuation, affluent,
agency, agile, alive, articulated, as is, ascending, at work,
authority, autograph, autographic, average, axial, back,
back-flowing, backward, being, besetting, breakneck, calligraphic,
candidacy, candidature, care, catenated, ceaseless, charge,
chirographic, colliquation, command, common, competition,
concatenated, conduct, confluent, connected, consecutively,
constant, contemporaneous, contemporary, contest, continual,
continually, continued, continuing, continuous, continuously,
control, coursing, current, cursive, cyclical, dashing,
decoagulation, decurrent, defluent, deliquescence, deliquium,
descending, diffluent, direct, direction, dissolution, dissolving,
dominant, double-quick, down-trending, downward, drifting, driving,
dynamic, dynamics, eagle-winged, effortless, endless, engrossed,
epidemic, event, execution, exercise, existent, existing,
expeditious, express, extant, fast, featureless, festering, fleet,
flowing, fluent, fluidification, fluidization, fluxional, fluxive,
flying, fresh, functional, functioning, fusibility, fusing, fusion,
galloping, game, gapless, gleet, going, going on, governance,
government, graphic, graphoanalytic, graphologic, graphometric,
guidance, gulfy, gushing, gyrational, gyratory, hair-trigger,
hand running, handling, hasty, headlong, holograph, holographic,
husbandry, hustling, ichor, immanent, immediate, in Indian file,
in a chain, in a line, in a row, in a series, in column,
in exercise, in file, in force, in hand, in longhand, in operation,
in play, in practice, in process, in shorthand, in single file,
in succession, in the works, in turn, in writing, inaction,
incessant, inscribed, instant, intendance, interminable, italic,
italicized, joined, jointless, kinematics, kinesipathy, kinesis,
kinesitherapy, kinetics, latest, leaching, lead, leading,
leukorrhea, light of heel, light-footed, linked, liquation,
liquefaction, liquescence, liquescency, live, lively, lixiviation,
longhand, management, managery, managing, manipulation, manuscript,
match, matter, mattering, mazy, meandering, meet, melting,
mercurial, mobilization, modern, monotonous, motion, motivation,
mounting, move, movement, moving, never-ending, new, night and day,
nimble, nimble-footed, nonstop, normal, occupation, on foot,
on paper, on the fire, ongoing, operancy, operating, operation,
operational, operative, ordering, ordinary, pandemic, passing,
peccant humor, penciled, penned, percolation, perennial,
performance, performing, periodic, perpetual, pilotage, plunging,
popular, pouring, practice, precipitate, predominant,
predominating, present, present-age, present-day, present-time,
prevailing, prevalent, printed, profluent, progressive,
progressively, prompt, purulence, pus, quick, quick as lightning,
quick as thought, race, racing, rampant, rankling, rapid, reckless,
recurrent, reflowing, refluent, regnant, regressive, regulation,
reigning, repetitive, responsibility, restlessness, retrogressive,
rife, rising, rotary, rotational, rotatory, round-the-clock,
routine, ruling, running for office, rushing, sanies, scriptorial,
scriptural, seamless, sequentially, serially, seriatim, serpentine,
serried, shorthand, sideward, sinking, sluggish, smooth, snappy,
soaring, solubilization, solution, spanking, speedy, stable,
standard, standing, standing for office, steady, steerage,
steering, step by step, stereotyped, stir, stirring, straight,
streaming, stylographic, successively, superintendence,
superintendency, supervision, suppuration, surging, surgy,
sustained, swift, that be, that is, thaw, thawing, the conn,
the helm, the wheel, thermoplasticity, tidal, topical, tournament,
turn about, twenty-four-hour, unbroken, unceasing, unclotting,
undifferentiated, unending, uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent,
unintermitting, uninterrupted, uninterruptedly, unrelieved,
unremitting, unrest, unstopped, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute,
up-trending, upward, usual, velocity, vortical, winged, work,
working, workings, written
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