What is run?

More definitions of "run":

• (verb): Set animals loose to graze.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• (verb): Make without a miss.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• (verb): Sail before the wind.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• (verb): Become undone.
  Synonyms: unravel

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

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

• (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:

“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)

“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)

“People’s feelings turn cool and warm; the ways of the world run hot and cold.”
—Chinese proverb.