rerun
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
government
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
publishing
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English run
English rerun
From re- + run.
Inflected forms:
form: reruns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: re-run
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: reruns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rerunning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reran
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rerun
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: re-run
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An act or instance of rerunning; a repetition.
pos: noun
examples: Even some strong supporters of leaving the UK worry that an early re-run would be doomed to failure.
The central concern that runs through The Technology Trap is that, unless we are very careful, our latest technological revolution may well turn out to be a tumultuous rerun of the Industrial Revolution, with dire social and political consequences.
gloss: A television program shown after its initial presentation, particularly many weeks after its initial presentation; a repeat.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: I'm not a fan of the new Simpsons episodes, but the old reruns have me in stitches, although I've seen them countless times.
gloss: Another printing run (impression; batch of copies of a given edition) of a book, cartoon, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A political candidate who holds the same political agenda or doctrine as a past or incumbent holder of a given political office.
pos: noun
gloss: A second or subsequent run of a computer program.
pos: noun
examples: Each rerun of the algorithm takes several minutes.
gloss: To run again; to repeat.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Ms. Hill has rerun those questions in her mind. “If the girls told me they want to stay where they are, I would have to leave them,” she said.
gloss: To broadcast (a television program etc.) again.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They're still rerunning The Flintstones on this channel.
Earlier Sunday, MTV ran and reran a compilation of Ms. Spears’s previous appearances on the show, including her high-school hottie debut in 1999 and her on-the-lips kiss with Madonna in 2003, glossing over her lethargic dance number last year.
gloss: To be broadcast again.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Everyone is talking about Lemonade, Beyoncé's new visual album that immediately became a sensation when it debuted on HBO on Saturday night. For those who missed it (and those without a loved one's HBO Go password), Lemonade even reran just before the Game of Thrones' highly anticipated season six premiere on April 24.
gloss: To run (a race or other contest) again.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: rerun the election
Thursday night, running in Lane 2 on an otherwise empty eight-lane track, at a half-empty Olympic Stadium, the United States women’s 4x100-meter relay team reran a qualifying round all by itself.
gloss: To run (a computer program) again.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Restart the computer and rerun the installation.
Derived words: rerunnable
Translations:
lang: Korean
word: 재경주(再競走)하다
roman: jaegyeongjuhada