What's the difference between away and runaway?

Away


Definition:

  • (adv.) From a place; hence.
  • (adv.) Absent; gone; at a distance; as, the master is away from home.
  • (adv.) Aside; off; in another direction.
  • (adv.) From a state or condition of being; out of existence.
  • (adv.) By ellipsis of the verb, equivalent to an imperative: Go or come away; begone; take away.
  • (adv.) On; in continuance; without intermission or delay; as, sing away.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) report the complications registered, in particular: lead's displacing 6.2%, run away 0.7%, marked hyperthermya 0.0%, haemorrage 0.4%, wound dehiscence 0.3%, asectic necrosis by decubitus 5%, septic necrosis 0.3%, perforation of the heart 0.2%, pulmonary embolism 0.1%.
  • (2) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
  • (3) In the second approach, attachment sites of DTPA groups were directed away from the active region of the molecule by having fragment E1,2 bound in complex, with its active sites protected during the derivatization.
  • (4) The Tyr side chain had two conformations of comparable energy, one over the ring between the Gln and Asn side chains, and the other with the Tyr side chain away from the ring.
  • (5) Critics say he is unelectable as prime minister and will never be able to implement his plans, but he has nonetheless pulled attention back to an issue that many thought had gone away for good.
  • (6) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
  • (7) When war broke out, the nine-year-old Arden was sent away to board at a school near York and then on Sedbergh School in Cumbria.
  • (8) Furthermore, the backing away from any specific yield targets is exactly the lack of clarity that the FX market will not like."
  • (9) To understand the reason for the opposite effect of the molar ratio observed at the middle of and at four residues away from the lysine-rich sequence, actual cross-linked residue(s) was (were) determined by subjecting cross-linked product to a protein sequencer.
  • (10) Plays like The Workhouse Donkey (1963) and Armstrong's Last Goodnight (1964) were staged in major theatres, but as the decade progressed so his identification with the increasingly radical climate of the times began to lead away from the mainstream theatre.
  • (11) Eighty-five per cent of newly appointed judges in France are women because the men stay away.
  • (12) "Monasteries and convents face greater risks than other buildings in terms of fire safety," the article said, adding that many are built with flammable materials and located far away from professional fire brigades.
  • (13) Seconds later the camera turns away as what sounds like at least 15 gunshots are fired amid bystanders’ screams.
  • (14) Although a variety of new teaching strategies and materials are available in education today, medical education has been slow to move away from the traditional lecture format.
  • (15) But even before the reforms, half of the women coming to refuges were being turned away, so beds were already scarce.
  • (16) Heptathletes peak in their mid-to-late twenties – two Olympic cycles away yet for Johnson-Thompson – so what would she like to achieve in London?
  • (17) Estonia had been reduced to 10 men early in the second half yet Hodgson’s men had to toil away for another 25 minutes before the goal, direct from Wayne Rooney’s free-kick, that soothed their mood and maintained their immaculate start to this qualifying programme.
  • (18) There is no evidence to support the move to seven-day services, there is no evidence of what is going to happen if we divert our resources away from the week to weekends.
  • (19) Reality set in once you got home to your parents and the regular neighborhood kids, and your thoughts turned to new notebooks for the school year and whether you got prettier while you were away and whether your crushes were going to notice.
  • (20) But in a setback to the UK, Somaliland, which broke away from Somalia in 1991, refused British entreaties to attend on the grounds that it would not have been treated as equal to the Somali government.

Runaway


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, flees from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; a fugitive.
  • (n.) The act of running away, esp. of a horse or teams; as, there was a runaway yesterday.
  • (a.) Running away; fleeing from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; as, runaway soldiers; a runaway horse.
  • (a.) Accomplished by running away or elopement, or during flight; as, a runaway marriage.
  • (a.) Won by a long lead; as, a runaway victory.
  • (a.) Very successful; accomplishing success quickly; as, a runaway bestseller.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These are typically runaway processes in which global temperature rises lead to further releases of CO², which in turn brings about more global warming.
  • (2) Although runaway pacemaker is a rare complication in modern pacemakers, but it still exists.
  • (3) And in terms of genuine defence needs (as opposed to state militarism), what greater known threat is there to human security than the prospect of runaway climate change?
  • (4) A case of a unipolar surgical electrocautery-induced runaway pacemaker is described.
  • (5) Although runaway is infrequent with current generation pacemakers, it should be considered in addition to the more common causes of pacemaker malfunction in the patient with appropriate symptoms.
  • (6) So Huck Finn floats down the great river that flows through the heart of America, and on this adventure he is accompanied by the magnificent figure of Jim, a runaway slave, who is also making his bid for freedom.
  • (7) Characteristics found to be significantly associated with program outcome included: race; probation; drug abuse; program intervention; home visits; and runaway behavior.
  • (8) The "lock-in" effect is the single most important factor increasing the danger of runaway climate change, according to the IEA in its annual World Energy Outlook, published on Wednesday.
  • (9) A 16-base-pair fragment, deletion of which completely inactivated oriC, was replaced by a temperature-dependent runaway-replication derivative (the copy number of which increases with temperature) of the IncFII plasmid R1.
  • (10) He vowed to to stop the runaway train of bureaucracy in its tracks, “giving our teachers more time to do what they do best”.
  • (11) (He says his own job suddenly changed five years ago, too: from trying to stimulate economic activity in Williston to attempting to manage the runaway growth.)
  • (12) As population rises, this argument runs, consumption will increase and place an impossible strain on natural resources, from water supplies and agricultural land to fish in the ocean, as well as giving rise to runaway climate change as we burn ever more fossil fuels.
  • (13) Australia is already the globe’s biggest coal exporter and “mega-mine” plans in Queensland for more extraction are identified as the world’s second biggest “ carbon bomb ” threatening runaway global warming.
  • (14) Clinical experiences and laboratory studies are described involving a population of workers who were exposed in a plant making 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4,5-T), including a trichlorophenol runaway reaction.
  • (15) This indicates that the runaway pacemaker is still a potential problem, even in newer pacemakers, and reemphasizes the unpredictable and serious nature of this medical emergency.
  • (16) Whitehall insists it is only the threat of non-payment that keeps runaway EU spending in check.
  • (17) Significant numbers of runaway and street youth are at risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
  • (18) If a battery heats up beyond 80C you hit what is called thermal runaway, where the components start to decompose, and that’s when it can explode.” The specific cause of Samsung’s issues with exploding batteries is unknown, the company just cites “ a battery cell issue ”.
  • (19) Only in this way – by doing everything possible to make reductions everywhere, rather than polluting in one place and offsetting in another – does the world have a good chance of avoiding runaway climate change, such critics claim.
  • (20) 29 June: Jason Owen moves into the home with a 15-year-old runaway girl.

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