What is run?

More definitions of "run":

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

• (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

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

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

• (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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• (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

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

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

• (verb): Cause something to pass or lead somewhere.
  Example: "Run the wire behind the cabinet"
  Synonyms: lead

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

• (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"

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

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

• (verb): Make without a miss.

• (verb): Become undone.
  Synonyms: unravel

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

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

• (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): 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"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• (verb): Sail before the wind.

• (verb): Set animals loose to graze.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Famous quotes containing the word run:

“Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

“Wives in their husbands’ absences grow subtler,
And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries, because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own, because they pass for nothing in the new places.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)