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.

Compare run with other words:

run vs. touch

implement vs. run

rode vs. run

color vs. run

chase vs. run

give vs. run

rud vs. run

cun vs. run

roun vs. run

rug vs. run

mun vs. run

run vs. runt

rum vs. run

run vs. rut

dun vs. run

run vs. tun

bun vs. run

nun vs. run

ren vs. run

rub vs. run

pun vs. run

ruin vs. run

hun vs. run

run vs. rung

gun vs. run

rue vs. run

run vs. sun

bet vs. run

play vs. run

able vs. run

escape vs. run

managed vs. run

run vs. suspension

run vs. surge

run vs. stream

run vs. serge

gin vs. run

fart vs. run

banana vs. run

kiss vs. run

funk vs. run

drain vs. run

run vs. runningly

run vs. uprun

colorature vs. run

ern vs. run

rain vs. run

course vs. run

cat vs. run

partake vs. run

run vs. there

cool vs. run

run vs. rushed

mange vs. run

hide vs. run

run vs. swim

run vs. spring

hotfoot vs. run

jump vs. run

love vs. run

leap vs. run

hop vs. run

eat vs. run

fall vs. run

fade vs. run

run vs. rune

interval vs. run

run vs. sake

run vs. stroll

run vs. watermelon

run vs. trim

job vs. run

canter vs. run

ride vs. run

abscond vs. run

fun vs. run

run vs. scramble

ran vs. run

ree vs. run

friend vs. run

kami vs. run

run vs. scatter

launch vs. run

run vs. skedaddle

run vs. storekeeper

run vs. scampering

run vs. scorer

overstride vs. run

niceness vs. run

forerun vs. run

executable vs. run

courant vs. run

run vs. swagger

demonstrate vs. run

run vs. scoot

outdistance vs. run

footstep vs. run

partnership vs. run

invoke vs. run

run vs. underpass

run vs. warp

run vs. tab

diverge vs. run

run vs. urn

jog vs. run

husk vs. run

gravel vs. run

run vs. running

dap vs. run

idle vs. run

run vs. strip

conduct vs. run

bye vs. run

run vs. rush

run vs. scamper

run vs. trend

irreversible vs. run

extra vs. run

concede vs. run

run vs. sprint

run vs. trot

lave vs. run

run vs. target

hurdle vs. run

run vs. swipe

boundary vs. run

run vs. single

baseball vs. run

run vs. suicide

run vs. worm

curriculum vs. run

curry vs. run

lug vs. run

racetrack vs. run

run vs. tie

nice vs. run

cross vs. run

pair vs. run

function vs. run

host vs. run

run vs. wide

plate vs. run

run vs. runway

run vs. runaway

hunt vs. run

run vs. travel

run vs. speed

lead vs. run

pass vs. run

produce vs. run

continuously vs. run

run vs. sort

danger vs. run

run vs. spawning

run vs. unravel

football vs. run

migrate vs. run

cost vs. run

illegal vs. run

run vs. smuggle

run vs. transport

run vs. stop

run vs. worse

run vs. through

different vs. run

dye vs. run

paint vs. run

bleed vs. run

broadcast vs. run

print vs. run

media vs. run

election vs. run

compete vs. run

procedure vs. run

plan vs. run

operate vs. run

program vs. run

run vs. work

machine vs. run

continue vs. run

last vs. run

range vs. run

run vs. time

run vs. space

extend vs. run

flow vs. run

charge vs. run

manage vs. run

control vs. run

cause vs. run

lightly vs. run

fast vs. run

run vs. spread

quickly vs. run

migration vs. run

move vs. run

migrated vs. run

deplete vs. run

molten vs. run

mould vs. run

melted vs. run

run vs. trajectory

execute vs. run

run vs. start

riser vs. run

run vs. slope

ladder vs. run

run vs. stern

dimension vs. run

run vs. stocking

knit vs. run

distance vs. run

gain vs. run

base vs. run

run vs. runner

point vs. run

quick vs. run

amount vs. run

creek vs. run

liquid vs. run

leak vs. run

run vs. scale

run vs. trial

experiment vs. run

music vs. run

passage vs. run

rapid vs. run

cards vs. run

run vs. track

path vs. run

enclosure vs. run

route vs. run

period vs. run

run vs. trip

dash vs. run

errand vs. run

hurry vs. run

overthrow vs. run

overrun vs. run

outrun vs. run

attack vs. run

rake vs. run

lit vs. run

flee vs. run

maiden vs. run

race vs. run

lose vs. run

candidate vs. run

hundred vs. run

ace vs. run

run vs. slow

run vs. six

century vs. run

four vs. run

one vs. run

run vs. ship

run vs. war

present vs. run