run

  1. Noun.  The act of running.
  2. Noun.  The route taken while running or skiing.
  3. Noun.  A flow of liquid; a leak.
  4. Noun.  (US) A small creek or part thereof.
  5. Noun.  The amount of something made.
  6. Noun.  The length of a showing of a play, film, tv series or season or themes/genres of such.
  7. Noun.  The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
  8. Noun.  The horizontal length of a set of stairs.
  9. Noun.  A production quantity in a factory.
  10. Noun.  A pace faster than a walk.
  11. Noun.  (context, of horses) A fast gallop.
  12. Noun.  An interval of distance or time, a period marked by a continuing trend.
  13. Noun.  A series of tries in a game that were successful.
  14. Noun.  A trial of an experiment.
  15. Noun.  A regular trip or route.
  16. Noun.  A standard or unexceptional group or category.
  17. Noun.  An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
  18. Noun.  An errand or the journey associated with an errand.
  19. Noun.  A pleasure trip.
  20. Noun.  (context, skiing) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
  21. Noun.  (baseball, cricket) A point scored in baseball and cricket.
  22. Noun.  (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
  23. Noun.  A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
  24. Noun.  A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
  25. Noun.  Any sudden large demand for something.
  26. Noun.  Unrestricted use of an area.
  27. Noun.  A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
  28. Noun.  (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
  29. Noun.  (context, construction) horizontal dimension of a slope.
  30. Noun.  (Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
  31. Adjective.  In a liquid state; melted; molten.
  32. Adjective.  Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out".).
  33. Verb.  (intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off of either foot, compare: walk.
  34. Verb.  (intransitive) To go at a fast pace, to move quickly.
  35. Verb.  (intransitive, figuratively) To move or spread quickly.
  36. Verb.  (transitive) To cause to move quickly; to make move lightly.
  37. Verb.  (transitive) To control or manage, be in charge of.
  38. Verb.  (intransitive) Of a liquid, to flow.
  39. Verb.  (intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
  40. Verb.  (transitive) To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from an object.
  41. Verb.  (intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
  42. Verb.  (intransitive) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
  43. Verb.  (transitive) To make something extend in space.
  44. Verb.  (intransitive) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
  45. Verb.  (transitive) To make a machine operate.
  46. Verb.  (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure(,) or program.
  47. Verb.  (transitive, or) To compete in a race.
  48. Verb.  (intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.
  49. Verb.  (transitive) To make run in a race or an election.
  50. Verb.  (intransitive) To be presented in one of the media.
  51. Verb.  (transitive) To print or broadcast in the media.
  52. Verb.  (intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion , to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
  53. Verb.  (term, copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
  54. Verb.  (transitive) To go through without stopping, usually illegally.
  55. Verb.  (transitive) To transport someone or something.
  56. Verb.  (transitive) To smuggle illegal goods.
  57. Verb.  (transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
  58. Verb.  (intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
  59. Verb.  (intransitive, soccer) To carry a football down the field.
  60. Verb.  (intransitive) Of stitches, to unravel.
  61. Verb.  (intransitive) To flee away from a danger or towards help.
  62. Verb.  (transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
  63. Verb.  (intransitive) To control or have precedence in a card game.
  64. 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.