run
- Noun. The act of running.
- Noun. The route taken while running or skiing.
- Noun. A flow of liquid; a leak.
- Noun. (US) A small creek or part thereof.
- Noun. The amount of something made.
- Noun. The length of a showing of a play, film, tv series or season or themes/genres of such.
- Noun. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
- Noun. The horizontal length of a set of stairs.
- Noun. A production quantity in a factory.
- Noun. A pace faster than a walk.
- Noun. (context, of horses) A fast gallop.
- Noun. An interval of distance or time, a period marked by a continuing trend.
- Noun. A series of tries in a game that were successful.
- Noun. A trial of an experiment.
- Noun. A regular trip or route.
- Noun. A standard or unexceptional group or category.
- Noun. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
- Noun. An errand or the journey associated with an errand.
- Noun. A pleasure trip.
- Noun. (context, skiing) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
- Noun. (baseball, cricket) A point scored in baseball and cricket.
- Noun. (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
- Noun. A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
- 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. Unrestricted use of an area.
- Noun. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
- Noun. (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
- Noun. (context, construction) horizontal dimension of a slope.
- Noun. (Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
- Adjective. In a liquid state; melted; molten.
- Adjective. Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out".).
- Verb. (intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off of either foot, compare: walk.
- Verb. (intransitive) To go at a fast pace, to move quickly.
- Verb. (intransitive, figuratively) To move or spread quickly.
- Verb. (transitive) To cause to move quickly; to make move lightly.
- Verb. (transitive) To control or manage, be in charge of.
- Verb. (intransitive) Of a liquid, to flow.
- Verb. (intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
- Verb. (transitive) To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from an object.
- Verb. (intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
- Verb. (intransitive) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
- Verb. (transitive) To make something extend in space.
- Verb. (intransitive) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
- Verb. (transitive) To make a machine operate.
- Verb. (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure(,) or program.
- Verb. (transitive, or) To compete in a race.
- Verb. (intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.
- Verb. (transitive) To make run in a race or an election.
- Verb. (intransitive) To be presented in one of the media.
- Verb. (transitive) To print or broadcast in the media.
- Verb. (intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion , to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
- Verb. (term, copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- Verb. (transitive) To go through without stopping, usually illegally.
- Verb. (transitive) To transport someone or something.
- Verb. (transitive) To smuggle illegal goods.
- Verb. (transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
- Verb. (intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
- Verb. (intransitive, soccer) To carry a football down the field.
- Verb. (intransitive) Of stitches, to unravel.
- Verb. (intransitive) To flee away from a danger or towards help.
- Verb. (transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
- Verb. (intransitive) To control or have precedence in a card game.
- Verb. (juggling, colloquial) To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
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This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.