What is run?

More definitions of "run":

• (noun): The pouring forth of a fluid.
  Synonyms: discharge, outpouring

• (noun): A score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely.
  Synonyms: tally

• (verb): Direct or control; projects, businesses, etc..
  Synonyms: operate

• (noun): A small stream.
  Synonyms: rivulet, rill, runnel, streamlet

• (verb): Run with the ball; in such sports as football.

• (noun): The continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation.
  Example: "The assembly line was on a 12-hour run"

• (noun): A race between candidates for elective office.
  Example: "He is raising money for a Senate run"
  Synonyms: political campaign, campaign

• (noun): The production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.).
  Example: "A daily run of 100,000 gallons of paint"

• (verb): Become undone.
  Synonyms: unravel

• (verb): Set animals loose to graze.

• (noun): A race run on foot.
  Example: "She broke the record for the half-mile run"
  Synonyms: footrace, foot race

• (verb): Compete in a race.
  Synonyms: race

• (verb): Run, stand, or compete for an office or a position.
  Synonyms: campaign

• (noun): An unbroken chronological sequence.
  Example: "The play had a long run on Broadway"; "the team enjoyed a brief run of victories"

• (verb): Come unraveled or undone as if by snagging.
  Synonyms: ladder

• (verb): Move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way.
  Example: "Who are these people running around in the building?"; "She runs around telling everyone of her troubles"; "let the dogs run free"

• (verb): Change or be different within limits.
  Example: "Interest rates run from 5 to 10 percent"
  Synonyms: range

• (verb): Cause an animal to move fast.
  Example: "Run the dogs"

• (verb): Guide or pass over something.
  Synonyms: guide, draw, pass

• (verb): Move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time.
  Example: "Don't run--you'll be out of breath"; "The children ran to the store"

• (verb): Include as the content; broadcast or publicize.
  Synonyms: carry

• (verb): Cause to emit recorded sounds.
  Synonyms: play

• (verb): Carry out.
  Example: "Run an errand"

• (verb): Carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine.
  Example: "Run the dishwasher"; "run a new program on the Mac"
  Synonyms: execute

• (noun): A regular trip.
  Example: "The ship made its run in record time"

• (verb): Make without a miss.

• (verb): Cause to perform.
  Example: "Run a subject"; "run a process"

• (verb): Sail before the wind.

• (verb): Pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals).
  Synonyms: hunt, hunt down, track down

• (noun): An unbroken series of events.
  Example: "Nicklaus had a run of birdies"
  Synonyms: streak

• (verb): Occur persistently.
  Example: "Musical talent runs in the family"

• (verb): Be operating, running or functioning.
  Example: "The car is still running--turn it off!"

• (verb): Continue to exist.
  Synonyms: prevail, persist, die hard, endure

• (verb): Be affected by; be subjected to.
  Example: "Run a temperature"; "run a risk"

• (noun): The act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace.
  Example: "He broke into a run"; "his daily run keeps him fit"
  Synonyms: running

• (verb): Reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating.
  Synonyms: melt, melt down

• (verb): Move along, of liquids.
  Synonyms: flow, feed, course

• (noun): The act of testing something.
  Synonyms: test, trial

• (verb): Keep company.
  Example: "The heifers run with the bulls ot produce offspring"
  Synonyms: consort

• (verb): Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point.
  Synonyms: go, pass, lead, extend

• (verb): Change from one state to another.
  Example: "Run amok"; "run rogue"; "run riot"

• (verb): Extend or continue for a certain period of time.
  Synonyms: run for

• (verb): Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined.
  Example: "These dresses run small"
  Synonyms: tend, be given, lean, incline

• (verb): Deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor.
  Synonyms: black market

• (noun): A row of unravelled stitches.
  Example: "She got a run in her stocking"
  Synonyms: ladder, ravel

• (verb): Travel a route regularly.
  Synonyms: ply

• (verb): Travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means.
  Example: "Run to the store!"; "She always runs to Italy, because she has a lover there"

• (noun): (American football) a play in which a player runs with the ball.
  Example: "The defensive line braced to stop the run"
  Synonyms: running, running play, running game

• (verb): Have a particular form.
  Synonyms: go

• (noun): Unrestricted freedom to use.
  Example: "He has the run of the house"

• (verb): Progress by being changed.
  Example: "Run through your presentation before the meeting"
  Synonyms: move, go

• (verb): Be diffused.
  Example: "These dyes and colors are guaranteed not to run"
  Synonyms: bleed

• (verb): Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run.
  Example: "If you see this man, run!"
  Synonyms: scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away

• (verb): Cover by running; run a certain distance.
  Example: "She ran 10 miles that day"

• (noun): A short trip.
  Example: "Take a run into town"

• (verb): Perform as expected when applied.
  Example: "Does this old car still run well?"
  Synonyms: function, work, operate, go

Famous quotes containing the word run:

“People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumbler and begin to poke around for rumours of another Messiah.”
—Alistair Cooke (b. 1908)

“You run ahead?—Do you do it as a shepherd? Or as an exception? A third possibility would be as a runaway ... First question of conscience.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)