What's the difference between run and rung?

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.

Rung


Definition:

  • () of Ring
  • (p. p.) of Ring
  • () imp. & p. p. of Ring.
  • (n.) A floor timber in a ship.
  • (n.) One of the rounds of a ladder.
  • (n.) One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.
  • (n.) One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel; also, one of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hancock is covering the same portfolios but has moved up a rung from his previous position as a parliamentary under secretary of state.
  • (2) In other cases local numbers were reported to state agencies but then not up the next rung, to the federal government.
  • (3) The National Association of Estate Agents said: "This announcement has added a new rung to the property ladder, one within reach of thousands of young families."
  • (4) They usually didn’t get him the best delivery times,” Runge said.
  • (5) In the first half of 2014, UK sales of vinyl are expected to be 1.2m, more than 50% up on the same period last year Hanging over everything Runge showed me was an awkward question.
  • (6) I've just rung my boss and my workplace is under water.
  • (7) But on the flip side you see a young boy and outstanding player in Amavi make the wrong decision at the wrong time to take someone on that late in the game, and unfortunately we came away with nothing.” Pardew had rung the changes at half-time as Palace struggled to find their rhythm and looked like a team with too many players in unfamiliar roles.
  • (8) "It's no good hoping people will climb the property ladder if the bottom rung is missing.
  • (9) are described: an analytical one, a Runge-Kutta simulation and an "asymptotic" method.
  • (10) The proposed law would only allow gay couples the right to adopt if they were married, not in a civil partnership – a distinction that has rung alarm bells among equality groups.
  • (11) The coupled equations for flow through collapsible tubes are solved using a Runge-Kutta finite difference scheme.
  • (12) For young people already struggling to reach the bottom rung of the housing ladder, it looks to be pulled up even further.
  • (13) And that was a good decision, I think.” Runge made regular trips to the plant at Orsman Road, N1, where he inspected what was on offer – not just presses, but an archive of the metallic master copies of stampers used to make thousands of different records, by artists including Simon & Garfunkel and the Manic Street Preachers, all of which could conceivably be put back into production.
  • (14) And helping borrowers move up the property chain can help free up homes lower down the chain for those borrowers looking to get on the first rung of the ladder."
  • (15) About 83.3 per cent were illiterate and belonged to the lowest rung of the socio economic scale.
  • (16) Edward M Kennedy, who died of brain cancer on Tuesday at the age of 77, was a man who made it his life's work to, as President Obama said in the funeral that took place in the church hours later, "give a voice to those who could not be heard", and to "add a rung to the ladder of opportunity".
  • (17) Study of cardiac arrhythmia may be pursued vertically, as up the rungs of a ladder, from symptom to ECG, to EPS, to local lesion, to intracellular metabolism and to alterations of the latter and their effects on charge-transfer by ions across the cell membrane.
  • (18) For Gabriela Salinas, commercial manager of a publishing company, the gender pay gap is particularly evident on the top rungs of the corporate world.
  • (19) Hoarding isn't the privilege of a few Saudi royals; it is a feature at almost every rung of the property ladder.
  • (20) Analysis by the Guardian of 50 of the UK's most valuable companies shows that women account for only 14% of staff serving on executive committees – the management level just one rung below the boardroom and which are viewed as the pipeline of talent to fill future board vacancies.

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