(n.) The mark or impression of the foot; a track; hence, visible sign of a course pursued; token; mark; as, the footsteps of divine wisdom.
(n.) An inclined plane under a hand printing press.
Example Sentences:
(1) 3.06pm: In the Daily Politics debate, Davey followed in the footsteps of Clegg in trying to put distance between himself and the Conservatives and Labour – the "old parties", as Davey described him.
(2) Tellingly, though, the women's daughters have shown no interest in following in their footsteps.
(3) Goldsmith, following in the footsteps of his father , who started the rabid anti-EU referendum campaign, is for a hard Brexit, wrenching us away as brutally and damagingly as possible.
(4) About 30 people took three weeks to walk from South Tyneside to London in the footsteps of the Jarrow Crusade of 1936 which highlighted unemployment and poverty during the Great Depression.
(5) Harold Tillman, owner of retailers Jaeger and Aquascutum (the name means "water shield") had ambitions to follow in the footsteps of Burberry, another classic but antiquated British label which had reinvented itself as a worldwide luxury brand.
(6) Will Spanish publishers follow in Germany’s footsteps and backtrack?
(7) It described the move by Robinson and Carroll as "a huge success for community relations in the United Kingdom" and urged others, both in the EDL and Islamist groups, to follow in the pair's footsteps and abandon extremist ideologies.
(8) He suggested that other European countries would follow in Britain’s footsteps and leave the EU.
(9) Perception of natural sounds of approaching and moving away footsteps was studied.
(10) With a computerized optical pedobarograph, three footsteps on each side were recorded under three conditions: 1) barefoot, 2) wearing the patients' own hosiery, and 3) wearing experimental patented padded hosiery.
(11) Bob Cant, editor of a 2008 book called Footsteps and Witnesses: Lesbian and Gay Lifestories from Scotland, says that when he was growing up in 1950s and 60s Scotland, the illegality of homosexual activity was “not a problem for me at all”.
(12) He said they wanted to go to Malaysia to find jobs, following in the footsteps of others from his village.
(13) The frontier of space is just a follow-on – we're following on in the footsteps of those who preceded us, and hopefully we'll give those that follow-on in our footsteps the same opportunity that we had.
(14) I feel at home, everything feels at home, for my family too, they’re set up very well here.” The Nigeria international Moses followed closely in Song’s footsteps and will now spend a third year in succession away from Stamford Bridge on loan.
(15) Alex Salmond could not be trusted as he had this hidden agenda – Sturgeon follows in his footsteps.
(16) The idea that never having seen each other, Amanda would go into space, follow in her mother's footsteps... it was very moving to me."
(17) When asked if he wanted to follow in his predecessor Danny Cohen's footsteps and become BBC1 controller, Bennett responded: "No."
(18) LG Winter Gardens, Morecambe ( liveatlica.org ), 23-27 September Speed-The-Plow Lindsay Lohan , making her West End debut, follows in the footsteps of Madonna in David Mamet’s caustic Hollywood satire.
(19) Determined not to follow in his father's footsteps, Schulberg began writing ironic short stories about Hollywood, and took part in the leftwing Western Writers' Congress in 1936.
(20) Get on with the program and follow our Venezuelan footsteps, because after all, we (almost) always win Miss Universe, thanks to the beauty standards established by our beloved Mr Sousa.
Run
Definition:
(a.) To be played on the stage a number of successive days or nights; as, the piece ran for six months.
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(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.