Word: run Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English runnen, rennen (“to run”), alteration (due to the past participle runne, runnen, yronne) of Middle English rinnen (“to run”), from Old English rinnan, iernan (“to run”) and Old Norse rinna (“to run”), both from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną (“to run”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“to boil, churn”). Cognate with Scots rin (“to run”), West Frisian rinne (“to walk, march”), archaic Dutch rinnen (“to flow”, still in geronnen), German rinnen (“to flow”), Swedish rinna (“to flow”), and Icelandic renna (“to flow”). From the causative Proto-Germanic *rannijaną (“to make run”) are Dutch rennen, German rennen, Danish rende, Swedish ränna (all “to run”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian rend (“to run, run after”). See also random. Pronunciation: /ɹʌn/, /ɹʊn/, /ɾʌn/ 1. To move swiftly. Labels: intransitive Example: Run, and you might still catch the train! Example: Through the open front door ran Jessamy, down the steps to where Kitto was sitting at the bottom with the pram beside him. 2. To move swiftly. Labels: intransitive Example: I have been running all over the building looking for him. Example: Sorry, I've got to run; my house is on fire! 3. To move swiftly. Labels: transitive Example: I can run a mile, but I can't run the cross-country course. 4. To move swiftly. Labels: transitive Example: I was hoping to make the team, but I didn't run the qualifying time. 5. To move swiftly. Labels: intransitive Example: The shuttle runs back and forth on these rollers. Example: As its name suggests, the monorail runs on a single rail. 6. To move swiftly. Labels: transitive Example: Every day I run my dog across the field and back. Example: I'll just run the vacuum cleaner over the carpet. 7. To move swiftly. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: The horse will run in the Preakness next year. Example: I'm not ready to run a marathon. 8. To move swiftly. Labels: transitive Example: Could you run me over to the store? Example: Please run this report upstairs to director's office. 9. To move swiftly. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: The bus (train, plane, ferry boat, etc) runs between Newport and Riverside. Example: Small planes run between Alor and Langkawi. BUS: Express busses leave the bus terminal on the corner of Jl. Langgar and Jl. Stesyen for K. Kedah, […] 10. To move swiftly. Labels: transitive Example: This year, NJ Transit allowed nonmotorists […] to reach the event by running special trains every 2 hours 4 round trips). The location was the old Lackawanna Railroad freight house, about a 10-minute walk from the Boonton Station, which normally has service only during peak-commuting hours on weekdays. 11. To move swiftly. Labels: transitive Example: To put it frankly, if you people had to hire others to run the river and survey it for you, if, in short, you can't even run it yourself, why do think you can decide who is and who is not competent? River running, as has been[…] 12. To move swiftly. Labels: intransitive 13. To move swiftly. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: Then, on their second possession, Isaiah Ford ran for 11 yards after abandoning a flea flicker. [...] The Patriots ran the ball just 27 times despite averaging 5 yards per carry. 14. To move swiftly. Labels: intransitive Example: Whenever things get tough, she cuts and runs. Example: When he's broke, he runs to me for money. 15. To move swiftly. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: The car in front just ran a red light. Example: If you have a collision with a vehicle oncoming from the right, after having run priority to the right, you are at fault. 16. To move swiftly. Labels: colloquial, transitive 17. To flow. Labels: intransitive Example: The river runs through the forest into the North Sea. Example: There's blood running down your leg. 18. To flow. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: There's a strange story running around the neighborhood that you had a miscarriage last year. Example: The flu is running through my daughter's kindergarten. 19. To flow. Labels: intransitive Example: Your nose is running. Example: Why is the hose still running? 20. To flow. Labels: transitive Example: Run the water out into the pool. Example: They ran the electricity back behind the wall. 21. To flow. Labels: intransitive Example: As Wax dissolves, as Ice begins to run, Example: The Sussex ores run pretty freely in the Fire for Iron-Ores; otherwise they would hardly be worth working. 22. To flow. Labels: intransitive Example: During washing, the red from the rug ran onto the white sheet, staining it pink. 23. To flow. Example: to run bullets Example: But, my Lord, the fairest Diamonds are rough till they are polished, and the purest Gold must be run and washed, and sifted in the Oar. 24. To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled. 25. To control or manage; to be in charge of. Labels: transitive Example: My uncle ran a corner store for forty years. Example: She runs the fundraising. 26. To be a candidate in an election. Labels: intransitive Example: I have decided to run for governor of California. Example: We're trying to find somebody to run against him next year. 27. To make participate in certain kinds of competitions. Labels: transitive Example: He ran his best horse in the Derby. Example: We're running two cars in today's rally. 28. To make participate in certain kinds of competitions. Labels: transitive Example: The Green Party is running twenty candidates in this election. 29. To exert continuous activity; to proceed. Example: to run through life; to run in a circle 30. To be presented in the media. Labels: intransitive Example: The story will run on the 6-o'clock news. Example: The latest Robin Williams movie is running at the Silver City theatre. 31. To print or broadcast in the media. Labels: transitive Example: run a story; run an ad 32. To smuggle (illegal goods). Labels: transitive Example: They are running guns to the rebels. Example: [...]whereas in the business of laying heavy impositions two and two never made more than one ; which happens by lessening the import, and the strong temptation of running such goods as paid high duties 33. To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control. Labels: transitive Example: Looks like we're gonna have to run the tomatoes again. 34. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time. Labels: intransitive Example: The border runs for 3000 miles. Example: The leash runs along a wire. 35. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time. Labels: intransitive Example: The sale will run for ten days. Example: The contract runs through 2008. 36. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time. Labels: transitive Example: I need to run this wire along the wall. 37. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time. Labels: intransitive Example: My car stopped running. Example: That computer runs twenty-four hours a day. 38. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time. Labels: transitive Example: It's full. You can run the dishwasher now. Example: Don't run the engine so fast. 39. To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program. Labels: transitive Example: They ran twenty blood tests on me and they still don't know what's wrong. Example: Our coach had us running plays for the whole practice. 40. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation. Example: to run from one subject to another Example: Virgil was so well acquainted with this Secret, that to set off his first Georgic, he has run into a set of Precepts, which are almost foreign to his Subject, 41. To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse). Labels: copulative Example: Our food supplies are running low because money is running short. Example: They frequently overspent and soon ran into debt. 42. To cost an amount of money. Labels: transitive Example: Buying a new laptop will run you a thousand dollars. Example: Laptops run about a thousand dollars apiece. 43. Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel. Labels: intransitive Example: My stocking is running. 44. To cause stitched clothing to unravel. Labels: transitive Example: 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure He took off the nylons & had runned one. He said "now I really look like a street whore!" 45. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation. Example: To run the world back to its first original and infancy, and, as it were, to view nature in its cradle, Example: Methinks, if it might be, I would gladly understand the Formation of a Soul, run it up to its Punctum Saliens, and see it beat the first conscious Pulse. 46. To cause to enter; to thrust. Example: to run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into one's foot Example: “You run your head into the lion's mouth,” answered Mac-Ivor. 47. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven. Example: They ran the ship aground. Example: [...]besides all this, a talkative person must needs be impertinent, and speak many idle words, and so render himself burdensome and odious to Company, and may perchance run himself upon great Inconveniences, by blabbing out his own or other’s Secrets; 48. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine. Example: to run a line 49. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk). Labels: transitive Example: to run the risk of losing one's life Example: He runneth two dangers. 50. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: He would himself be in the Highlands to receive them, and run his fortune with them. 51. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule. Labels: obsolete, transitive 52. To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time. 53. To control or have precedence in a card game. Example: Every three or four hands he would run the table. 54. To be in form thus, as a combination of words. Example: Which Sovereignty, with us, ſo undoubtedly reſideth in the Perſon of the King, that his ordinary Style runneth — Our Sovereign Lord the King: […] Example: The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running: “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.” 55. To be popularly known; to be generally received. Labels: archaic Example: [...]great captains, and even consular men, who first brought them over, took pride in giving them their own names (by which they run a great while in Rome) Example: Neither was he ignorant what report ran of himselfe. 56. To have growth or development. Example: Boys and girls run up rapidly. Example: or the Richness of the Ground cause them [turnips] to run too much to Leaves 57. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline. Example: A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds. Example: It hath been observed, that the temperate climates usually run into moderate governments, and the extremes into despotic power. 58. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company. Example: Certain covenants run with the land. Example: Customs run only upon our goods imported or exported, and that but once for all; whereas interest runs as well upon our ships as goods, and must be yearly paid. 59. To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune). Example: Don't let me run the fate of all who show indulgence to your sex […]. 60. To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole. 61. To speedrun. Labels: rare 62. To eject from a game or match. Labels: especially Example: Jackson got himself run in the top of the sixth for arguing a borderline strike three call. 63. To press (a bank, etc.) with immediate demands for payment. 64. To play basketball (usually pickup). Labels: slang Example: you wanna run? -- 'do you want to play?'; said to someone not in the game but who is watching and ready to play, when a team needs another player to make five (usually) for a pick-up game Example: "You wanna run?"