What is run?

More definitions of "run":

• (verb): Sail before the wind.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• (verb): Make without a miss.

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

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

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

• (verb): Set animals loose to graze.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• (verb): Become undone.
  Synonyms: unravel

• (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

Famous quotes containing the word run:

“The aphorist is a hit and run artist.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery.”
—Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180)

“Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)