(v. i.) To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.
(v. i.) To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.
(v. t.) To remain firm under; to sustain; to undergo; to support without breaking or yielding; as, metals endure a certain degree of heat without melting; to endure wind and weather.
(v. t.) To bear with patience; to suffer without opposition or without sinking under the pressure or affliction; to bear up under; to put up with; to tolerate.
(v. t.) To harden; to toughen; to make hardy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients had improved sitting balance and endurance after surgery.
(2) There was no significant correlation between mitochondrial volume and number of SO fibers following endurance exercise training.
(3) Thus it appears that a portion of the adaptation to prolonged and intense endurance training that is responsible for the higher lactate threshold in the trained state persists for a long time (greater than 85 days) after training is stopped.
(4) Her novels have an enduring and universal appeal and she is recognised as one of the greatest writers in English literature.
(5) Respiratory muscle endurance at a given level of load was assessed from the time of exhaustion and from the time course of the change in the power spectrum (centroid frequency) of the diaphragm electromyogram (EMG).
(6) The investigation included the measurement of heart rate, bioelectrical muscle activity of the right and left M. biceps brachii and M. deltoideus and muscular endurance at 50% MVC.
(7) First, the decrement in the maximal heart rate response to exercise (known as "chronotropic incompetence") found in the sedentary MI rat was completely reversed by endurance training.
(8) Collins later thanked the condemned man for what he said was the respect he showed toward the execution team and for the way he endured the ordeal.
(9) There were discrete linear relationships between muscle temperature and isometric endurance associated with cycling at 60% and 80% VO2max.
(10) Endurance times with the vest were 300 min (175 W) and 242-300 min (315 W).
(11) Because the changes of the arterial blood lactate (Laa) and VE coincide we defined this point as the "point of the optimal ventilatory efficiency," identical with the "O2 endurance performance limit," later called "anaerobic threshold" by Wasserman et al.
(12) Zuma, who had endured booing during Mandela's memorial service at this stadium, received a rapturous welcome as he entered to the sound of a military drumroll trailed by young, flag-waving majorettes.
(13) In multiple regression analysis of endurance capacity, the standardized regression coefficient for smoking was -0.14 for distance covered in the 12-min run and 0.10 for 16-km running time, the latter despite the low prevalence (6.9%) of regular cigarette smokers among the joggers.
(14) I think that those who go there, to Isis, they hate Russia for the conditions they have to endure to live,” Nazarov’s brother says.
(15) These results indicate that the increase in glucose storage by acute exercise is not systematically associated with an improved glucose homeostasis, suggesting that other adaptive mechanisms also contribute to the improvement of insulin sensitivity in endurance athletes.
(16) Nine mild to moderate asthmatic adults (three males, six females) and six non-asthmatics (one male, five females) underwent endurance running training three times per week for five weeks, at self selected running speeds on a motorized treadmill.
(17) But to endure a cut of £100m just after becoming the mayor and a further £23m this year has been daunting.
(18) Further, to study the effect of endurance training on this response, animals from each age group underwent ten weeks of treadmill running at 75% of their functional capacity.
(19) Already much work has been done to re-establish enduring components for Labour's electoral success: clarity of strategy, effective rebuttal, and superior field organisation with our network of community organisers.
(20) As expected, preexercise values of non-trained subjects revealed a much higher insulin response to glucose, and a lower glucose storage and lipid oxidation compared to results obtained in endurance trained individuals.
Run
Definition:
(a.) To be played on the stage a number of successive days or nights; as, the piece ran for six months.
() of Run
(p. p.) of Run
(a.) 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.
(a.) To go swiftly; to pass at a swift pace; to hasten.
(a.) To flee, as from fear or danger.
(a.) To steal off; to depart secretly.
(a.) To contend in a race; hence, to enter into a contest; to become a candidate; as, to run for Congress.
(a.) 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.
(a.) To exert continuous activity; to proceed; as, to run through life; to run in a circle.
(a.) To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation; as, to run from one subject to another.
(a.) To discuss; to continue to think or speak about something; -- with on.
(a.) To make numerous drafts or demands for payment, as upon a bank; -- with on.
(a.) To creep, as serpents.
(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.
(a.) To proceed along a surface; to extend; to spread.
(a.) To become fluid; to melt; to fuse.
(a.) To turn, as a wheel; to revolve on an axis or pivot; as, a wheel runs swiftly round.
(a.) 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.
(a.) To extend; to reach; as, the road runs from Philadelphia to New York; the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
(a.) To go back and forth from place to place; to ply; as, the stage runs between the hotel and the station.
(a.) To make progress; to proceed; to pass.
(a.) 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.
(a.) To have a course or direction; as, a line runs east and west.
(a.) To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
(a.) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
(a.) To have growth or development; as, boys and girls run up rapidly.
(a.) To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
(a.) To spread and blend together; to unite; as, colors run in washing.
(a.) 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.
(a.) To continue without falling due; to hold good; as, a note has thirty days to run.
(a.) To discharge pus or other matter; as, an ulcer runs.
(a.) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing closehauled; -- said of vessels.
(a.) 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.
(a.) 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.
(v. t.) To cause to run (in the various senses of Run, v. i.); as, to run a horse; to run a stage; to run a machine; to run a rope through a block.
(v. i.) To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
(v. i.) To cause to enter; to thrust; as, to run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into the foot.
(v. i.) To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
(v. i.) To fuse; to shape; to mold; to cast; as, to run bullets, and the like.
(v. i.) To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine; as, to run a line.
(v. i.) To cause to pass, or evade, offical restrictions; to smuggle; -- said of contraband or dutiable goods.
(v. i.) To go through or accomplish by running; as, to run a race; to run a certain career.
(v. i.) To cause to stand as a candidate for office; to support for office; as, to run some one for Congress.
(v. i.) To encounter or incur, as a danger or risk; as, to run the risk of losing one's life. See To run the chances, below.
(v. i.) To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
(v. i.) To discharge; to emit; to give forth copiously; to be bathed with; as, the pipe or faucet runs hot water.
(v. i.) To be charged with, or to contain much of, while flowing; as, the rivers ran blood.
(v. i.) To conduct; to manage; to carry on; as, to run a factory or a hotel.
(v. i.) To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
(v. i.) To sew, as 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.
(v. i.) To migrate or move in schools; -- said of fish; esp., to ascend a river in order to spawn.
(n.) The act of running; as, a long run; a good run; a quick run; to go on the run.
(n.) A small stream; a brook; a creek.
(n.) That which runs or flows in the course of a certain operation, or during a certain time; as, a run of must in wine making; the first run of sap in a maple orchard.
(n.) A course; a series; that which continues in a certain course or series; as, a run of good or bad luck.
(n.) State of being current; currency; popularity.
(n.) Continued repetition on the stage; -- said of a play; as, to have a run of a hundred successive nights.
(n.) A continuing urgent demand; especially, a pressure on a bank or treasury for payment of its notes.
(n.) A range or extent of ground for feeding stock; as, a sheep run.
(n.) The aftermost part of a vessel's hull where it narrows toward the stern, under the quarter.
(n.) The distance sailed by a ship; as, a good run; a run of fifty miles.
(n.) A voyage; as, a run to China.
(n.) A pleasure excursion; a trip.
(n.) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by license 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.
(n.) A roulade, or series of running tones.
(n.) The greatest degree of swiftness in marching. It is executed upon the same principles as the double-quick, but with greater speed.
(n.) The act of migrating, or ascending a river to spawn; -- said of fish; also, an assemblage or school of fishes which migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
(n.) In baseball, a complete circuit of the bases made by a player, which enables him to score one; in cricket, a passing from one wicket to the other, by which one point is scored; as, a player made three runs; the side went out with two hundred runs.
(n.) A pair or set of millstones.
(a.) Melted, or made from molten material; cast in a mold; as, run butter; run iron or lead.
(a.) Smuggled; as, run goods.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are going to all destinations.” Supplies are running thin and aftershocks have strained nerves in the city.
(2) PMS is more prevalent among women working outside the home, alcoholics, women of high parity, and women with toxemic tendency; it probably runs in families.
(3) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
(4) 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%.
(5) In contrast to L2 and L3 in L1 the mid gut runs down in a straight line without any looping.
(6) Community owned and run local businesses are becoming increasingly common.
(7) Large gender differences were found in the correlations between the RAS, CR, run frequency, and run duration with the personality, mood, and locus of control scores.
(8) These major departmental transformations are being run in isolation from each other.
(9) In 2012, 20% of small and medium-sized businesses were either run solely or mostly by women.
(10) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
(11) No one has jobs,” said Annie, 45, who runs a street stall selling fried chicken and rice in the Matongi neighbourhood.
(12) They also said no surplus that built up in the scheme, which runs at a £700m deficit, would be paid to any “sponsor or employer” under any circumstances.
(13) This implementation reduced a formidable task to a relatively routine run.
(14) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
(15) Failure to develop an adequate resource will be costly in the long run.
(16) Obiang, blaming foreigners for bringing corruption to his country, told people he needed to run the national treasury to prevent others falling into temptation.
(17) She added: “We will continue to act upon the overwhelming majority view of our shareholders.” The vote was the second year running Ryanair had suffered a rebellion on pay.
(18) What shouldn't get lost among the hits, home runs and the intentional and semi-intentional walks is that Ortiz finally seems comfortable with having a leadership role with his team.
(19) The American Red Cross said the aid organisation had already run out of medical supplies, with spokesman Eric Porterfield explaining that the small amount of medical equipment and medical supplies available in Haiti had been distributed.
(20) O'Connell first spotted 14-year-old David Rudisha in 2004, running the 200m sprint at a provincial schools race.