run

  • (verb): To run.
  • (noun): Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
  • (noun): Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
  • (noun): A pleasure trip.
  • (noun): Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
  • (noun): Migration (of fish).
  • (noun): A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
  • (noun): A path taken by literal movement or figuratively
  • (noun): An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
  • (noun): Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
  • (noun): State of being current; currency; popularity.
  • (noun): Continuous or sequential
  • (noun): A flow of liquid; a leak.
  • (noun): (West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)
  • (noun): A quick pace, faster than a walk.
  • (noun): A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
  • (noun): Any sudden large demand for something.
  • (noun): Various horizontal dimensions or surfaces
  • (noun): A standard or unexceptional group or category.
  • (noun): In sports
  • (noun): A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
  • (noun): The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
  • (noun): The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence 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.
  • (noun): A pair or set of millstones.
  • (verb): To move swiftly.
  • (verb): (fluids) To flow.
  • (verb): (of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
  • (verb): To control or manage, be in charge of.
  • (verb): To be a candidate in an election.
  • (verb): To make run in a race or an election.
  • (verb): To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
  • (verb): To be presented in the media.
  • (verb): To print or broadcast in the media.
  • (verb): To smuggle (illegal goods).
  • (verb): To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
  • (verb): To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
  • (verb): To execute or carry out a plan, procedure or program.
  • (verb): To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
  • (verb): To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
  • (verb): To cost a large amount of money.
  • (verb): Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
  • (verb): To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
  • (verb): To cause to enter; to thrust.
  • (verb): To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
  • (verb): To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
  • (verb): To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
  • (verb): To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
  • (verb): To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
  • (verb): To sew (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.
  • (verb): To control or have precedence in a card game.
  • (verb): To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
  • (verb): To be popularly known; to be generally received.
  • (verb): To have growth or development.
  • (verb): To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
  • (verb): To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
  • (verb): To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
  • (verb): To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
  • (verb): To speedrun.
  • (adjective): In a liquid state; melted or molten.
  • (adjective): Cast in a mould.
  • (adjective): Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
  • (adjective): (of a zoology) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.
  • (adjective): Smuggled.
  • I just got back from my morning run.
  • I need to make a run to the store.
  • Let's go for a run in the car.
  • He set up a rabbit run.
  • The constant run of water from the faucet annoys me.