Sekirov Dictionary

run

/ɹʌn/

verb68

  1. to go fast on foot, with both feet off the ground for a moment at each step
  2. To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
  3. To cover (a course or a distance) by running.
  4. To complete a running course or event in (a given time).
  5. To control or manage; to be in charge of.
  6. Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
  7. To make a machine operate.
  8. To flow.
  9. Of a liquid or electric current, to flow.
  10. Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
  11. To make a liquid or electric current flow from or into an object.
  12. To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
  13. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
  14. To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
  15. To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
  16. To make (something) extend in space.
  17. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
  18. To compete in a race.
  19. To be a candidate in an election.
  20. To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
  21. To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
  22. To move swiftly.
  23. Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
  24. To cause (a vehicle) to travel a route.
  25. To be presented in the media.
  26. To print or broadcast in the media.
  27. To flee from a danger or towards help.
  28. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
  29. To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
  30. (figurative) To move or spread quickly.
  31. To cost an amount of money.
  32. To transport (someone or something), notionally at a brisk pace.
  33. To cause to move quickly or lightly.
  34. To move briskly or smoothly with a motion of sliding, rolling, sweeping etc.
  35. To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
  36. To make participate in certain kinds of competitions.
  37. To make enter a race.
  38. To make stand in an election.
  39. To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
  40. To smuggle (illegal goods).
  41. Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
  42. To cause stitched clothing to unravel.
  43. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
  44. To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
  45. To cause to enter; to thrust.
  46. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
  47. (slang) To play basketball (usually pickup).
  48. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
  49. To have growth or development.
  50. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
  51. To become liquid; to melt.
  52. Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
  53. To transit (a length of a river), as in whitewater rafting.
  54. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
  55. (rare) To speedrun.
  56. To eject from a game or match.
  57. To press (a bank, etc.) with immediate demands for payment.
  58. To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
  59. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
  60. 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.
  61. To control or have precedence in a card game.
  62. To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
  63. To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
  64. To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
  65. (informal) To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
  66. (no longer used) To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
  67. (no longer used) To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
  68. (no longer used) To be popularly known; to be generally received.

noun51

  1. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
  2. A quick pace, faster than a walk.
  3. A fast gallop.
  4. Something continuous or sequential.
  5. A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
  6. A series of tries in a game that were successful.
  7. A production quantity (such as in a factory).
  8. The period of showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
  9. A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
  10. A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
  11. A stretch when one team heavily outscores the other.
  12. (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
  13. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily on foot); dash or errand, trip.
  14. A pleasure trip.
  15. A score when a runner touches all bases legally; the act of a runner scoring.
  16. The act of passing from one wicket to another; the point scored for this.
  17. A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
  18. Any sudden large demand for something.
  19. A literal or figurative path or course for movement relating to:
  20. A (regular) trip or route.
  21. The route taken while running or skiing.
  22. A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
  23. The distance sailed by a ship.
  24. A voyage.
  25. A trial.
  26. The execution of a program or model
  27. A playthrough, or attempted playthrough; a session of play.
  28. Unrestricted use. Only used in have the run of.
  29. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
  30. Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
  31. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
  32. (Australia, New-Zealand) A rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
  33. A running play.
  34. A standard or unexceptional group or category.
  35. A flow of liquid; a leak.
  36. A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)
  37. A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
  38. Migration of fish.
  39. Various horizontal dimensions or surfaces
  40. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
  41. The horizontal length of a set of stairs
  42. Horizontal dimension of a slope.
  43. 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.
  44. One’s gait while running; the way one runs.
  45. State of being current; currency; popularity.
  46. The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
  47. The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
  48. (slang) A basketball game (usually pickup).
  49. The distance drilled with a bit, in oil drilling.
  50. The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
  51. A pair or set of millstones.

adjective5

  1. Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
  2. In a liquid state; melted or molten.
  3. Smuggled.
  4. Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.
  5. Cast in a mould.
forms

run'd · runned · ran · rannest · ranst · yronne · yrunne · running · runneth · runs · runnest

Phrases with run

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