(a.) Having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
(a.) trained and kept for running races; as, a running horse.
(a.) Successive; one following the other without break or intervention; -- said of periods of time; as, to be away two days running; to sow land two years running.
(a.) Flowing; easy; cursive; as, a running hand.
(a.) Continuous; keeping along step by step; as, he stated the facts with a running explanation.
(a.) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem; as, a running vine.
(a.) Discharging pus; as, a running sore.
(n.) The act of one who, or of that which runs; as, the running was slow.
(n.) That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation; as, the first running of a still.
(n.) The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
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.
Straight
Definition:
(a.) A variant of Strait, a.
(superl.) Right, in a mathematical sense; passing from one point to another by the nearest course; direct; not deviating or crooked; as, a straight line or course; a straight piece of timber.
(superl.) Approximately straight; not much curved; as, straight ribs are such as pass from the base of a leaf to the apex, with a small curve.
(superl.) Composed of cards which constitute a regular sequence, as the ace, king, queen, jack, and ten-spot; as, a straight hand; a straight flush.
(superl.) Conforming to justice and rectitude; not deviating from truth or fairness; upright; as, straight dealing.
(superl.) Unmixed; undiluted; as, to take liquor straight.
(superl.) Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party; as, a straight Republican; a straight Democrat; also, containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a party and no others; as, a straight ballot.
(adv.) In a straight manner; directly; rightly; forthwith; immediately; as, the arrow went straight to the mark.
(n.) A hand of five cards in consecutive order as to value; a sequence. When they are of one suit, it is calles straight flush.
(v. t.) To straighten.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast to L2 and L3 in L1 the mid gut runs down in a straight line without any looping.
(2) It was so difficult to keep a straight face when I was filming a sauna scene with Roy Barraclough, who played the mayor of Blackpool.
(3) The region of the tentorium and straight sinus can occasionally give rise to a vermiform appearance (the "AVM artifact").
(4) In testing the contribution of the long, curved stem to the torsional stability of uncemented prostheses by comparing it with other stems, the long, curved stem was the most stable, followed by a shorter straight stem, and a short, proximally curved stem.
(5) Every time I have seen him since – you stand up straight and it’s: ‘Hi, boss.
(6) Both sets of experiments revealed a straight linear relationship between the dose of VC and the % foci area induced.
(7) Despite a few initial concerns about the technology and how it would fit into their daily routines, staff really see the benefit and find it rewarding to see the messages and be able to respond straight away.
(8) The results may be due to stronger social reinstatement tendencies in females than in males: Higher levels of social motivation facilitate behavioral performance when the task is easy (straight runway) and inhibit it when the task is difficult (V-shaped runway).
(9) The contrast threshold for line orientation was studied using two lines with the same orientation under three different experimental conditions (series): (1) the two lines were presented in the same part of the receptive field; (2) they were along the same straight line and separated by 14' visual angle; (3) they were parallel and displaced at 4' of visual angle.
(10) Only eye position proved statistically significant; straight-ahead eye position induced more bias than did fixation of the visual stimulus.
(11) Ultrastructural examination of a tumor with a typical cribriform pattern showed spaces of two types; the more frequent type was bounded by cells with straight plasma membranes and contained filamentous and basement-membrane-like material, and the less frequent type was surrounded by cells with numerous microvilli and contained nonfilamentous homogeneous material.
(12) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
(13) Atlético Madrid maintained their faint hopes of catching Barcelona by recording a fourth straight league win, comfortably beating Deportivo la Coruña 3-0 with goals by the midfielder Saúl Ñíguez, top scorer Antoine Griezmann and Argentinian forward Ángel Correa.
(14) The chemotactic receptor-transducer proteins of Escherichia coli are responsible for directing the swimming behavior of cells by signaling for either straight swimming or tumbling in response to chemostimuli.
(15) These observations suggest that the inner dynein arms in Chlamydomonas axonemes are aligned not in a single straight row, but in a staggered row or two discrete rows.
(16) Following a run which included eight straight draws in the Premier League and a 3-0 defeat at Tottenham last Wednesday, Mubarak had reached the conclusion that Hughes and his coaching staff were not realising the potential of the players City had assembled.
(17) When plotted against [Ca]o on a double log scale, the above relation yielded a straight line with a slope of 1.0.
(18) The torque versus rotation curves can be divided into two straight regions and two transition zones.
(19) Its middle, straight portion (between 2.30 and 3.30 microns sarcomere spacings) extrapolated to zero tension at 3.49 microns sarcomere length.
(20) New observations include: (1) In 15 nm cross sections that show single 14.5 nm levels: (a) The flared X structure characteristic of rigor is replaced by a straight-X figure in which the crossbridge density is aligned along the myosin-actin plane, rather than skewed across it as in rigor.