All Definitions for Run
Below are all the dictionary definitions of run:
1To move swiftly.
2To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot.
3To go at a fast pace
4To move quickly.
5To cover (a course or a distance) by running.
6To complete a running course or event in (a given time).
7To move briskly or smoothly with a motion of sliding, rolling, sweeping etc.
8To cause to move quickly or lightly.
9To compete in a race.
10To transport (someone or something), notionally at a brisk pace.
11Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
12To cause (a vehicle) to travel a route.
13To transit (a length of a river), as in whitewater rafting.
14Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
15To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
16To flee from a danger or towards help.
17To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
18To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
19To flow.
20Of a liquid, to flow.
21To move or spread quickly.
22Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
23To make a liquid flow
24To make liquid flow from or into an object.
25To become liquid
26To melt.
27To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion
28To bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
29To fuse
30To shape
31To mould
32To cast.
33To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
34To control or manage
35To be in charge of.
36To be a candidate in an election.
37To make participate in certain kinds of competitions.
38To make enter a race.
39To make stand in an election.
40To exert continuous activity
41To proceed.
42To be presented in the media.
43To print or broadcast in the media.
44To smuggle (illegal goods).
45To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
46To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
47To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
48To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
49To make (something) extend in space.
50Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
51To make a machine operate.
52To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
53To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
54To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
55To cost an amount of money.
56Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
57To cause stitched clothing to unravel.
58To pursue in thought
59To carry in contemplation.
60To cause to enter
61To thrust.
62To drive or force
63To cause, or permit, to be driven.
64To cause to be drawn
65To mark out
66To indicate
67To determine.
68To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
69To 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.
70To control or have precedence in a card game.
71To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
72To have growth or development.
73To tend, as to an effect or consequence
74To incline.
75To have a legal course
76To be attached
77To continue in force, effect, or operation
78To follow
79To go in company.
80To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
81To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
82To eject from a game or match.
83To press (a bank, etc.) with immediate demands for payment.
84Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
85Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily on foot)
86Dash or errand, trip.
87A pleasure trip.
88Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
89Migration of fish.
90A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
91A literal or figurative path or course for movement relating to:
92A (regular) trip or route.
93The route taken while running or skiing.
94A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
95The distance sailed by a ship.
96A voyage.
97A trial.
98The execution of a program or model
99A playthrough, or attempted playthrough
100A session of play.
101Unrestricted use. Only used in have the run of.
102An enclosure for an animal
103A track or path along which something can travel.
104A rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
105State of being current
106Currency
107Popularity.
108Something continuous or sequential.
109A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend
110A period marked by a continuing trend.
111A series of tries in a game that were successful.
112A production quantity (such as in a factory).
113The period of showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
114A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
115A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
116A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
117A flow of liquid
118A leak.
119A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)
120A quick pace, faster than a walk.
121A fast gallop.
122A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
123Any sudden large demand for something.
124Various horizontal dimensions or surfaces
125The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
126The horizontal length of a set of stairs
127Horizontal dimension of a slope.
128A standard or unexceptional group or category.
129In sports
130A score when a runner touches all bases legally
131The act of a runner scoring.
132The act of passing from one wicket to another
133The point scored for this.
134A running play.
135The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
136The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
137The distance drilled with a bit, in oil drilling.
138A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
139The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
140The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation
141Also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
142A pair or set of millstones.
143One’s gait while running
144The way one runs.
145In a liquid state
146Melted or molten.
147Cast in a mould.
148Exhausted
149Depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
150Travelled, migrated
151Having made a migration or a spawning run.
152Smuggled.
153To put at hazard
154To venture
155To risk.
156To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
157To be popularly known
158To be generally received.
159To speedrun.