run

Adjective

1. In a liquid state; melted or molten.
   • Put some run butter on the vegetables.
   • Samples of the regular run butter were sealed in 1 pound tins and sent to Washington, where the butter was scored and examined. - 1921, L. W. Ferris, H. W. Redfield, W. R. North, “The Volatile Acids and the Volatile...
2. Cast in a mould.
   • [...] the Sides are generally made of Holland's Tiles, or Plates of run Iron, ornamented variously as Fancy dictates, [...] - 1735, Thomas Frankz, A tour through France, Flanders, and Germany: in a letter to Robert...
   • Vast quantities are cast in sand moulds, with that kind of run steel which is so largely used in the production of common table-knives and forks. - 1833, The Cabinet Cyclopaedia: A treatise on the progressive...
   • For making tea I have a kettle, Besides a pan made of run metal; An old arm-chair, in which I sit well — The back is round. - c. 1839, (Richard of Raindale, The Plan of my House vindicated, quoted by) T. T. B. in the...
3. Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
4. 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. - 1889,...
   • It may be very much a metallic appearance as opposed to the silver freshness of a recently run salmon. - 1986, Arthur Oglesby, Fly fishing for salmon and sea trout, page 15:
   • Thus, on almost any day of the year, a fresh-run salmon may be caught legally somewhere in the British Isles. - 2005, Rod Sutterby, Malcolm Greenhalgh, Atlantic Salmon: An Illustrated Natural History, page 86:
5. Smuggled.
   • run brandy

Noun

1. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
   • I just got back from my morning run.
   • Krohn-Dehli took advantage of a lucky bounce of the ball after a battling run on the left flank by Simon Poulsen, dummied two defenders and shot low through goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg's legs after 24 minutes. -...
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.
   • […] and on the 18th of January this squadron put to sea. The first place of rendezvous was the boy of port St. Julian, upon the coast of Patagonia, and all accidents were provided against with admirable foresight. Their...
   • Jackson said the white firefighters attempted to make him and other Black firefighters miss runs by not waking them up along with everyone else. - 1987 April 25, Kim Westheimer, “A Black Gay Fireman's Story”, in Gay...
3. A pleasure trip.
   • Let's go for a run in the car.
   • And I think of giving her a run in London for a change. - 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 30, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:
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.” - 2006, Tsirk Susej, The Demonic Bible, →ISBN, page 41:
5. Migration of fish.
6. A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
7. A literal or figurative path or course for movement relating to:
   • The bus on the Cherry Street run is always crowded.
   • You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon? It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs. - 1977, Star Wars (film)

   1. A (regular) trip or route.

   2. The route taken while running or skiing.

      • Which run did you do today?

   3. (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.

   4. The distance sailed by a ship.

      • a good run; a run of fifty miles

   5. A voyage.

      • a run to China

   6. A trial.

      • The data got lost, so I'll have to perform another run of the experiment.

   7. (mathematics, computing) 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.

   8. (video games, speedrunning) A playthrough, or attempted playthrough; a session of play.

      • This was my first successful run without losing any health.
      • That NPC bugged out and killed my run.
8. Unrestricted use. Only used in have the run of.
   • He can have the run of the house.
9. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
   • He set up a rabbit run.
10. A rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
11. 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[...]. - 1715 June 4 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 45. Tuesday, May 25....
12. Something continuous or sequential.

    A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.

    • I’m having a run of bad luck.
    • 1782 Frances Burney Cecilia “ […] had had the preceding night an uncommon run of luck”.
    • He went to Las Vegas and spent all his money over a three-day run.

Verb Entry 3

1. To move swiftly.
   • 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. - 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 122:

   Coordinate Terms: walk

   1. (intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot.

   2. (intransitive) To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.

      • 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 - 1965, Ed Cobb, “Tainted Love”, in Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, performed by Soft Cell, published 1981:

   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.
      • As its name suggests, the monorail runs on a single rail.
      • I felt her fingers running over my cheek.

   6. (transitive) To cause to move quickly or lightly.

      • 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.

   7. (transitive or intransitive) To compete in a race.

      • 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.

   8. (transitive) To transport (someone or something), notionally at a brisk pace.

      • Could you run me over to the store?
      • Please run this report upstairs to director's office.

   9. (transitive, intransitive) Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).

      • 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, […] - 1997, Karl-Heinz Reger, Nelles Verlag Staff, Malaysia - Singapore -...
      • 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. - 2013 April 15, Mary Ann Sternberg, Along the River Road: Past...

   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...

   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...

   12. (intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.

   13. (American football, transitive or intransitive) 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. - 2019 December 29, Chad Finn, “24...

   14. (intransitive) To flee from a danger or towards help.

       • 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.

   15. (figurative, 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.
       • If you have a collision with a vehicle oncoming from the right, after having run priority to the right, you are at fault.

   16. (transitive, juggling, colloquial) To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.

2. To flow.
   • The river runs through the forest into the North Sea.
   • There's blood running down your leg.
   • The current runs to the toaster.

   1. (intransitive) Of a liquid or electric current, to flow.

   2. (intransitive, figuratively) To move or spread quickly.

      • 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.

   3. (intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.

      • Your nose is running.
      • Why is the hose still running?
      • My eyes were watering and now tears are running down my cheeks.

   4. (transitive) To make a liquid or electric current flow from or into an object.

      • Run the water out into the pool.
      • They ran the electricity back behind the wall.

   5. (intransitive) To become liquid; to melt.

      • As Wax dissolves, as Ice begins to run, - 1717 [a. 18 CE], Ovid, translated by Joseph Addison, Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books. Translated by the most eminent hands. Adorn'd with sculptures, Book the Third, The...
      • The Sussex ores run pretty freely in the Fire for Iron-Ores; otherwise they would hardly be worth working. - 1729, John Woodward, An Attempt Towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England, Tome I, page 223:

   6. (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.

   7. To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.

      • 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. - 1718, Henry Felton, A Dissertation on Reading the Classics, and Forming a Just...
3. To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
4. To control or manage; to be in charge of.
   • My uncle ran a corner store for forty years.
   • She runs the fundraising.
   • My parents think they run my life.
5. To be a candidate in an election.
   • I have decided to run for governor of California.
   • We're trying to find somebody to run against him next year.
6. To make participate in certain kinds of competitions.
   • He ran his best horse in the Derby.
   • We're running two cars in today's rally.

   1. (transitive) To make enter a race.

   2. (transitive) To make stand in an election.

      • The Green Party is running twenty candidates in this election.
7. To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
   • to run through life; to run in a circle
8. To be presented in the media.
   • 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.
9. To print or broadcast in the media.
   • run a story; run an ad
10. To smuggle (illegal goods).
    • 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 - 1728, Jonathan...
11. To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
    • Looks like we're gonna have to run the tomatoes again.
12. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.

    (intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).

    • The border runs for 3000 miles.
    • The leash runs along a wire.
    • The grain of the wood runs to the right on this table.

Verb form of, participle

1. past participle of rin

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