What is run?

More definitions of "run":

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

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

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

• (verb): Become undone.
  Synonyms: unravel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• (verb): Sail before the wind.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• (verb): Make without a miss.

• (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

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

• (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"

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

• (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): Set animals loose to graze.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• (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"

Famous quotes containing the word run:

“Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

“It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

“It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount. It is true we may come to a perpendicular precipice, but we need not jump off, nor run our heads against it. A man may jump down his own cellar stairs, or dash his brains out against his chimney, if he is mad.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)