Run

Noun


Carpentry

1. The horizontal distance covered by a flight of stairs


 * 1) The act of running.
 * I just got back from my run.
 * 1) The route taken while running or skiing.
 * Which run did you do today?
 * 1) A flow of liquid; a leak.
 * The constant run of water from the faucet annoys me.
 * 1) 🇺🇸 A small creek or part thereof.
 * 2) The amount of something made.
 * The book’s initial press run will be 5,000 copies.
 * 1) The length of a showing of a play, film, tv series or season or themes/genres of such.
 * The run of the show lasted two weeks, and we sold out every night.
 * It is the last week of our French cinema run.
 * 1) The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
 * 2) The horizontal length of a set of stairs
 * 3) A production quantity in a factory.
 * Yesterday we did a run of 12,000 units.
 * 1) A pace faster than a walk.
 * He broke into a run.
 * 1)  A fast gallop.
 * 2) An interval of distance or time, a period marked by a continuing trend.
 * He went to Las Vegas and spent all his money over a three-day run.
 * I’m having a run of bad luck.
 * 1) A series of tries in a game that were successful.
 * 2) A trial of an experiment.
 * The data got lost, so I'll have to perform another run of the experiment.
 * 1) A regular trip or route.
 * The bus on the Cherry Street run is always crowded.
 * 1) A standard or unexceptional group or category.
 * He stood out from the usual run of applicants.
 * 1) An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
 * He set up a rabbit run.
 * 1) An errand or the journey associated with an errand.
 * I need to make a run to the store.
 * 1) A pleasure trip.
 * Let's go for a run in the car.
 * 1)  A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
 * 2)  A point scored in baseball and cricket.
 * 3)  A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
 * 4) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
 * 5) A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
 * Financial insecurity led to a run on the banks, as customers feared for the security of their savings.
 * 1) Any sudden large demand for something.
 * There was a run on Christmas presents.
 * 1) Unrestricted use of an area.
 * He can have the run of the house.
 * 1) A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
 * I have a run in my stocking.
 * 1)  The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
 * 2)  horizontal dimension of a slope.

Synonyms

 * tread
 * ladder
 * See also Thesaurus:walk

Antonyms

 * rise, riser
 * rise

Adjective

 * 1) In a liquid state; melted; molten.
 * Put some run butter on the vegetables.
 * 1) Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out".)

Verb

 * 1)  To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off of either foot, compare: walk.
 *  Run, Sarah, run!
 * 1)  To go at a fast pace, to move quickly.
 * The horse ran the length of the track.
 * I have been running all over the building looking for him.
 * Sorry, I've got to run; my house is on fire.
 * 1)  To move or spread quickly.
 * There's a strange story running around the neighborhood.
 * The flu is running through my daughter's kindergarten.
 * 1)  To cause to move quickly; to make move lightly.
 * Every day I run my dog across the field and back.
 * I'll just run the vacuum cleaner over the carpet.
 * Run your fingers through my hair.
 * Can you run these data through the program for me and tell me whether it gives an error?
 * 1)  To control or manage, be in charge of.
 * My uncle ran a corner store for forty years.
 * She runs the fundraising.
 * My parents think they run my life.
 * 1)  Of a liquid, to flow.
 * The river runs through the forest.
 * There's blood running down your leg.
 * 1)  Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
 * Your nose is running.
 * Why is the hose still running?
 * My cup runneth over.
 * 1)  To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from an object.
 * You'll have to run the water a while before it gets hot.
 * Run the tap until the water gets hot.
 * 1)  To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
 * The border runs for 3000 miles.
 * The leash runs along a wire.
 * The grain of the wood runs to the right on this table.
 * It ran in quality from excellent to substandard.
 * 1)  To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
 * The sale will run for ten days.
 * The contract runs through 2008.
 * The meeting ran late.
 * The book runs 655 pages.
 * The speech runs as follows:...
 * 1)  To make something extend in space.
 * I need to run this wire along the wall.
 * 1)  Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
 * My car stopped running.
 * That computer runs twenty-four hours a day.
 * Buses don't run here on Sunday.
 * 1)  To make a machine operate.
 * It's full. You can run the dishwasher now.
 * Don't run the engine so fast.
 * 1)  To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
 * They ran twenty blood tests on me and they still don't know what's wrong.
 * Our coach had us running plays for the whole practice.
 * I will run the sample.
 * Don't run that software unless you have permission.
 * My computer is too old to run the new OS.
 * 1)  To compete in a race.
 * The horse will run the Preakness next year.
 * I'm not ready to run a marathon.
 * 1)  To be a candidate in an election.
 * I have decided to run for governor of California.
 * We're trying to find somebody to run against him next year.
 * 1)  To make run in a race or an election.
 * He ran his best horse in the Derby.
 * The Green Party is running twenty candidates in this election.
 * 1)  To be presented in one of the media.
 * The story will run on the 6-o'clock news.
 * The latest Robin Williams movie is running at the Silver City theatre.
 * Her picture ran on the front page of the newspaper.
 * 1)  To print or broadcast in the media.
 * run a story
 * run an ad
 * 1)  To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion, to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
 * He discovered during washing that the red rug ran on his white sheet, staining it pink.
 * 1) copulative: To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
 * Our supplies are running low.
 * 1) * 1968, Paul Simon, Boxer
 * I was no more than a boy / In the company of strangers / In the quiet of the railway station / Running scared.
 * 1)  To go through without stopping, usually illegally.
 * run a red light or stop sign
 * run a blockade
 * 1)  To transport someone or something.
 * Could you run me over to the store?
 * Please run this report upstairs to director's office.
 * 1)  To smuggle illegal goods.
 * run guns
 * run rum
 * 1)  To cost a large amount of money.
 * Buying a new laptop will run you a thousand dollars.
 * Laptops run about a thousand dollars apiece.
 * 1)  Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
 * 2)  To carry a football down the field.
 * 3)  Of stitches, to unravel.
 * My stocking is running.
 * 1)  To flee away from a danger or towards help.
 * Whenever things get tough, she cuts and runs.
 * When he's broke, he runs to me for money.
 * 1)  To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
 * Looks like we're gonna have to run the tomatoes again.
 * 1)  To control or have precedence in a card game.
 * Every three or four hands he would run the table.
 * 1)  To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.

Synonyms

 * go
 * pass
 * lead
 * extend
 * hunt
 * hunt down
 * track down
 * travel
 * speed
 * hurry

Derived terms

 * run across
 * run after
 * run along
 * run around
 * run away
 * run by


 * run down
 * run in
 * run into
 * run off
 * run on
 * run out


 * run over
 * run through
 * run to
 * run up
 * run up against


 * also-ran
 * hit-and-run
 * overrun
 * runaround
 * runaway


 * run-down
 * run-in
 * runner
 * runner-up
 * runny


 * run-off
 * run-of-the-mill, run of the mill
 * runtime
 * run-up
 * runway


 * cannonball run
 * chicken run
 * dry run
 * front runner


 * hacking run
 * home run
 * rat run
 * run for the hills


 * run rate
 * run time
 * ski run


 * a run for one's money
 * hold with the hare and run with the hounds
 * hit the ground running
 * in the long run
 * in the running
 * in the short run
 * off and running
 * on the run
 * one can run but one can't hide
 * out of the running
 * make a run for it
 * make somebody's blood run cold


 * run a bath
 * run a fever
 * run aground
 * run amok, run amuck
 * run an errand
 * run a risk
 * run a temperature
 * run circles around
 * run for the roses
 * run hot and cold
 * run high
 * run in the family
 * run like the wind


 * run low
 * run out of steam
 * run rampant
 * run scared
 * run somebody of their feet
 * run somebody ragged
 * run the gamut
 * run the gauntlet
 * run into the ground
 * run the show
 * the run of
 * the runs
 * up and running

Related terms

 * gallop
 * move
 * walk

Adverbs for Run
refractorily; blindly; obediently; efficiently; deliberately; capriciously; noiselessly; infallibly; smoothly; greedily; spontaneously; tortuously; frantically; riotously; violently.

Thesaurus
Brownian movement, Everyman, Indian file, Le Mans, Lehrfreiheit, Public, Zeitgeist, abide, abrade, abrasion, abscond, absquatulate, academic freedom, acciaccatura, acquire, act, adolescent stream, advance, affluence, afflux, affluxion, aim, air lane, air race, airlift, alameda, angular motion, appoggiatura, arabesque, array, arroyo, articulation, ascend, ascending, ascent, assault, automobile race, average, average man, averageness, axial motion, azimuth, back, back up, backflowing, backing, backward motion, balance, bank, bark, batch, be effective, be in action, be responsible for, bear, bear upon, bearing, beat, beat a retreat, beaten path, beaten track, beck, bent, berm, bicycle path, bicycle race, bide, blemish, bloody, boardwalk, boat, boat race, bolt, booking, boost, borscht circuit, bound, bourn, braided stream, branch, break, breed, bridle path, bring down, bring on, bring out, bring upon, brook, brooklet, buck, budge, bull, bulldoze, bum, bump, bundle, bunt, bureaucracy, bureaucratism, burn, burrow, burst, burst of speed, bustle, butt, butt against, buzz, cadence, cadenza, call the signals, campaign, canoe, canter, captain, career, carry, carry on, carry out, carry sail, carry through, catena, catenation, catwalk, cave, center, chafe, chain, chain reaction, chaining, change, change place, channel, chart a course, chase, check, chinoiserie, chip, circle, circuit, circumnavigate, claw, clear out, climb, climbing, coast, coil, colliquate, coloratura, command, common man, common run, commonality, commonness, commute, concatenation, concourse, concussion, cond, conduct, confluence, conflux, conn, connection, consecution, constitutional freedom, contest a seat, contest of speed, continualness, continuance, continuation, continue, continue to be, continuity, continuum, contract, control, couch, course, cover, cover ground, covert, coxswain, crack, crackle, cram, craze, creek, crick, cross, cross-country race, crosscurrent, crossing, crowd, cruise, culture, currency, current, cut, cut and run, cycle, daily grind, dash, dash off, dash on, date, dead run, deal with, decamp, decoagulate, decoct, defeat time, defluxion, defrost, defy time, deliquesce, den, depart, derby, descend, descending, descent, desert, designate, dig, direct, direction, direction line, dissolve, division, dog, dog it, dog race, dogtrot, double-time, downflow, downpour, downward motion, drag race, drift, driftage, drive, drone, duration, dwell, dysentery, earth, ebb, ebbing, elapse, elbow, elope, embellishment, emigrate, emigration, encompass, endless belt, endless round, endurance, endurance race, endure, engagement, engineer, engrave, enter the lists, environ, esplanade, everyman, everywoman, excursion, exist, expatriate, expatriation, expedition, expire, extend, extension, extensiveness, falcon, fall in with, fall into, fare, fare forth, farm, fastwalk, fatten, feed, fester, festinate, fetch, file, filiation, fioritura, flank speed, flash burn, flat-out speed, flee, flight, flight path, flit, float, flood, flourish, flow, flow back, flow in, flow on, flow out, flowing, flowing stream, fluency, fluidify, fluidize, flush, fluviation, flux, fly, follow the hounds, foot, foot pavement, footpath, footrace, footway, force, forced draft, form, forward motion, fowl, fox-trot, fracture, fray, frazzle, freedom, freedom from fear, freedom from want, freedom of worship, fresh, freshet, fret, fugitate, full gallop, function, fuse, gain, gall, gallop, gamut, gang, garden path, gash, generality, get, get going, get moving, get out, get over, ghost, gill, girl next door, git, glacial movement, glide, go, go along, go around, go by, go by ship, go hunting, go on, go on shipboard, go out, go round, go sideways, go to sea, goad, golden mean, govern, grace, grace note, gradation, grand tour, grind, groove, grow, guide, gun, gush, gyrate, habitualness, hand gallop, handle, happy medium, hasten, hatch, have effect, have free play, have play, have the conn, hawk, head, head up, heading, headlong rush, heat, heavy right foot, hectograph, helm, helmsmanship, herd, hie, high lope, hightail, hiking trail, hold, hold in solution, hold on, hold out, hold the reins, hole, homme moyen sensuel, hop, hop along, hotfoot, hound, hum, hunt, hunt down, hurdle race, hurry, hurry on, hurry through, hurry up, hurry-scurry, hurt, hurtle, hustle, immigrate, immigration, impress, imprint, in-migrate, in-migration, incidental, incidental note, incise, incision, inclination, incur, inflow, infuse, injure, injury, intermigrate, intermigration, invite, issue, itinerary, jab, jack, jacklight, jam, jaunt, jog, jog trot, joggle, jolt, jostle, journey, jump, jump bail, junket, juste-milieu, keep, keep on, kill, lacerate, laceration, lair, lap, lapse, last, last long, last out, lay, lazy stream, leach, lead, lead on, leap, leg, lengthening, lesion, levant, liberty, license, lie, line, line of direction, line of march, lineage, liquefy, liquesce, liquidize, live, live on, live through, lixiviate, lodge, long mordent, loose, lope, lose no time, lot, maim, main current, mainstream, maintain, maintenance, make, make a passage, make go, make haste, make mincemeat of, make off, make the rules, make tracks, making, mall, manage, maneuver, manipulate, marathon, marathon race, mastermind, match race, matter, maul, maximum speed, mean, meandering stream, median, mediocrity, medium, melt, melt down, mew, midchannel, middle, middle course, middle ground, middle point, middle position, middle state, middle-of-the-road, midpoint, midstream, migrate, migration, militate, mill run, millrace, millstream, mimeograph, monotone, mordent, mortal wound, motion, motorboat, motorcycle race, mount, mounting, move, move along, move on, move over, move quickly, movement, moving road, multigraph, mutilate, mutilation, name, name for office, navigable river, navigate, navigation, nexus, nominate, norm, normal, normality, nudge, nurture, oblique motion, obstacle race, ocean trip, officer, ongoing, onrush, onward course, open throttle, operate, orbit, ordain, order, ordinariness, ordinary Joe, ordinary run, orientation, ornament, out-migrate, out-migration, outflow, outing, overprint, package tour, par, parade, part, pass, pass by, passage, path, pathway, pendulum, percolate, perdure, peregrination, perennate, perform, perform on, periodicity, perk, perpetuation, perseverance, persist, persistence, piece, pierce, pile drive, pilgrimage, pilot, piloting, play, playing engagement, pleasure trip, plenum, plow the deep, plunge, plunging, ply, point, poke, portion, post, potato race, pour, powder train, practice, prado, pralltriller, prescribe, press, press on, prevail, prevalence, primrose path, print, proceed, prod, progress, progression, prolongation, promenade, proof, propose, protraction, prove, prowl after, public walk, publish, pull, pull a proof, pull the strings, punch, puncture, pursuance, push, push on, put out, put to bed, put to press, put up, quarter, quarterback, queue, race, racing stream, radial motion, raise, ram, ram down, rampantness, ranch, random motion, range, rank, rankle, rattle, reach, reach out, rear, recurrence, red tape, red-tapeism, refine, reflowing, refluence, reflux, regatta, regress, regression, regulate, regurgitate, reign, reissue, relay, relay race, remain, remigrate, remigration, rend, render, rent, repetition, reprint, reticulation, retrogress, retrogression, ride, ride the sea, ride to hounds, rifeness, rip, ripen, rise, rising, river, rivulet, road, road race, roll, roll on, rotate, rotation, roulade, round, round trip, route, routine, routineness, row, rubberneck tour, ruck, rule, run against, run away, run away from, run away with, run for it, run for office, run its course, run off, run on, run out, rundle, runlet, runnel, runway, rupture, rush, rush through, rut, sack race, safari, sail, sail free, sail round, sail the sea, sally, sashay, savage, scald, scale, scamper, scoot, scorch, scotch, scramble, scrape, scratch, screw, scud, scuff, scull, scurry, scuttle, sea lane, sea trip, seafare, second-degree burn, see to, sequence, series, set, shake, shakedown cruise, shape a course, shepherd, shift, shikar, shin, shits, shoot, shortcut, shoulder, shove, show the heels, sidewalk, sideward motion, sike, single file, single mordent, sink, sinking, skedaddle, skim, skin, skip, skip out, skipper, slash, slide, slip, slip the cable, slit, smelt, smuggle, sneak, soar, soaring, solo, solubilize, solve, sore, span, spate, spectrum, speed, speedway race, spill stream, spin, sport, sprain, spread, spring, sprint, sprint race, spurt, squirrel cage, stab, stab wound, stalk, stamp, stand, stand for office, start, stay, stay on, staying power, steam, steamboat, steer, steerage, steering, step, step along, step lively, sternway, stick, still-hunt, stir, stock-car race, straddle, straight course, strain, stream, stream action, streamlet, stress, stretch, stretch out, strike, string, strip, submit, subside, subsiding, subsist, subterranean river, succession, suppurate, surge, surge back, surround, survive, sustain, sustained action, sustenance, swarm, swarming, swath, sweep, sweepingness, swing, tack down wind, take French leave, take a voyage, take care of, take command, take effect, take flight, take in, take the helm, take the lead, take to flight, take wing, tamp, tarry, tear, tendency, tenor, test flight, thaw, the Four Freedoms, the general tendency, the main course, the run of, thin, third-degree burn, thread, three-legged race, thrust, thrust out, tick, tide, tide over, tier, time spirit, tone, torch race, tour, towing path, towpath, track, track race, trade route, trail, train, traject, trajectory, trajet, transmigrate, transmigration, trauma, traumatize, travel, traverse, treadmill, trek, trend, trip, trot, trots, trottoir, tunnel, turn, turn tail, unclot, undercurrent, undertow, unfreeze, uninterrupted course, unremittingness, upward motion, usualness, vaudeville circuit, via media, voyage, wadi, walk, walk the waters, walkway, wane, water flow, watercourse, waterway, way, wayfare, wear, wear well, weep, welcome, well-worn groove, wend, whirl, wide-open speed, widespreadness, windrow, work, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench, yacht, yacht race

Etymology
From ronnen:, alteration of Middle English rinnen:. This perhaps continues the uncommon byform rinnan: but probably reflects more influence from  rinnen: (in Old English metathesised variants like irnan: predominated). In any case from and  from. Cognate with German rinnen:, Swedish rinna:, Danish rinde:, and Dutch rennen:

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * American Sign Language:
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 跑步
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Kurdish:
 * Latgalian:
 * Latvian: skrējiens
 * Lithuanian: bėgimas
 * Macedonian: трчање,
 * Malay:, lari
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sotho: matha
 * Spanish:


 * Danish:
 * Japanese: ルート, 経路


 * Romanian:
 * Russian: бег


 * Japanese:
 * Latgalian: ,
 * Latvian: tecējums, straume
 * Lithuanian: srovė, tėkmė
 * Macedonian: тек


 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,


 * Japanese:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:


 * Norwegian: Løpe
 * Romanian:


 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: тираж, траење


 * Romanian: (for magazines),  (for shows)


 * Japanese: 早歩き
 * Macedonian:


 * Romanian:
 * Russian:


 * Japanese: 襲歩 (for horse riding)
 * Macedonian:


 * Romanian:


 * Japanese: 道程, 区間, ,


 * Japanese: ラン
 * Polish: wybieg


 * Romanian:


 * Romanian:


 * Dutch: ladder
 * German:
 * Japanese:


 * Macedonian:, скинатица
 * Spanish:


 * : duƒuƒu, dusisi (1)
 * : corsa (1)
 * : smagliatura
 * : giro (14)
 * : bėgimas
 * : పరుగు (parugu)

Verb

 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic: ركد,
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: fugu
 * Basque: korrika egin, lasterka egin
 * Belarusian: бегаць,  бегчы
 * Bengali: দৌড়ান
 * Breton: redek
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: córrer
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 跑, 奔跑
 * Crimean Tatar: çapmaq (northern dialect cuvurmaq)
 * Czech:, běhat
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: jooksma
 * Ewe: ƒu du
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: სირბილი
 * German: ,
 * Greek: τρέχω (trékho)
 * Hebrew: רץ
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: kurar, hastar
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Irish:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: <-- removed by user atitarev: 走らせる - it's causative - "to make run" -->
 * Kannada: ಓಡು (Odu)
 * Korean: 달리다
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmancî: bezîn, revîn, bazdan
 * Soranî: (rakirdin)
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: трча
 * Malayalam: ഓടുക (Otuka)
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Occitan:
 * Persian: دویدن
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: a alerga, a fugi
 * Russian: бегать (abstract), бежать  (concrete), побежать
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: tumakbo
 * Telugu: పరుగెత్తు (parugettu)
 * Thai: (wîng)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: бігати,  бігти
 * Urdu: دوڑنا
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:


 * Czech: téct
 * Danish:, , rulle
 * French: se écouler,couler
 * Greek:, ρέω, κυλώ
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish: cieknąć


 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: proticati, strujati
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish: rinna
 * Vietnamese:


 * Breton: redet
 * Catalan: corregut
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Ewe: ƒu du
 * German: ,


 * Icelandic:
 * Irish:
 * Latvian: skrējis skrējusi
 * Macedonian: истрчан
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:

Anagrams

 * URN, urn

Pinyin syllable
run



Noun

 * 1) mystery, secret
 * rune healdan (to keep one's counsel)
 * 1) advice, counsel
 * 2) writing; a rune

Etymology
From the. Cognate with the Old Saxon rūna, Old High German rūna (German Raun), Old Norse rún, and Gothic 𐍂𐌿𐌽𐌰:.

Descendants

 * English: rune

Noun

 * 1) secret
 * 2) rune; writing, runes
 * [ek go]dagastiR runo faihido
 * [I, Gu]dgjest inscribed the runes. &mdash; 4th century inscription on the Einang stone, near Fagernes, Norway.
 * [I, Gu]dgjest inscribed the runes. &mdash; 4th century inscription on the Einang stone, near Fagernes, Norway.

Etymology
From. Cognate with the Old English run:, Old Saxon runa:, Old High German runa: (and German Raun:), and Gothic 𐍂𐌿𐌽𐌰:.

Noun

 * 1) Genitive plural of runo.