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Definition run

Etymology

From Middle English runnen, ronnen (�to run�), alteration (due to the past participle runne, runnen, yronne) of Middle English rinnen (�to run�), from Old English rinnan, iernan (�to run�) and Old Norse rinna (�to run�), both from Proto-Germanic *rinnan? (�to run�) (compare also *rannijan? (�to make run�)), from Proto-Indo-European *h?reyH- (�to boil, churn�). Cognate with Scots rin (�to run�), West Frisian rinne (�to walk, march�), Dutch rennen (�to run, race�), German rennen (�to run, race�), rinnen (�to flow�), Danish rende (�to run�), Swedish r�nna (�to run�), Icelandic renna (�to flow�). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian rend (�to run, run after�). See random.

Verb

run (plural runs)

1. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
2. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
3. A pleasure trip.
4. Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
5. Migration (of fish).
6. A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
7. (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
8. A (regular) trip or route.
9. The route taken while running or skiing.
10. The distance sailed by a ship.
11. A voyage.
12. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
13. (Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
14. State of being current; currency; popularity.
15. A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
    1. A series of tries in a game that were successful.
16. (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
17. (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
18. A trial.
19. A flow of liquid; a leak.
20. (chiefly eastern Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)
21. A production quantity (such as in a factory).
22. The length of a showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
23. A quick pace, faster than a walk.
    1. (of horses) A fast gallop.
24. A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
25. Any sudden large demand for something.
26. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
27. The horizontal length of a set of stairs
28. A standard or unexceptional group or category.
29. (baseball) The act of a runner making it around all the bases and over home plate; the point scored for this.
30. (cricket) The act of passing from one wicket to another; the point scored for this.
31. (American football) A gain of a (specified) distance; a running play.
32. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
33. (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
34. (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
35. (mining) 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.
36. A pair or set of millstones.
37. (mathematics, computing) The execution of a program or model
38. (video games) A playthrough.
39. (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
40. (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
41. (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
42. (video games, rare) An attempt at a game, especially a speedrun.
43. Unrestricted use. Only used in have the run of.

Adjective

run (not comparable)

1. In a liquid state; melted or molten.
2. Cast in a mould.
3. Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
4. (of a zoology) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.
5. Smuggled.

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