run
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Is run a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of run?
Definition
verb (English)
1. To move swiftly.Examples: "Run, and you might still catch the train!"; "Through the open front door ran Jessamy, down the steps to where Kitto was sitting at the bottom with the pram beside him."intransitive
2. To move swiftly.Examples: "I have been running all over the building looking for him."; "Sorry, I've got to run; my house is on fire!"; "Once I ran to you (I ran) / Now I run from you / This tainted love you've given / I give you all a boy could give you"intransitive
3. To move swiftly.Examples: "I can run a mile, but I can't run the cross-country course."transitive
4. To move swiftly.Examples: "I was hoping to make the team, but I didn't run the qualifying time."transitive
5. To move swiftly.Examples: "The shuttle runs back and forth on these rollers."; "As its name suggests, the monorail runs on a single rail."; "I felt her fingers running over my cheek."intransitive
6. To move swiftly.Examples: "Every day I run my dog across the field and back."; "I'll just run the vacuum cleaner over the carpet."; "Run your fingers through my hair."transitive
noun (English)
1. A literal or figurative path or course for movement relating to:
2. A literal or figurative path or course for movement relating to:Examples: "This morning's run of the SHIPS statistical model gave Hurricane Priscilla a 74% chance of gaining at least 30 knots of intensity in 24 hours, reconfirmed by the HMON and GFS dynamical models."
3. A literal or figurative path or course for movement relating to:Examples: "This was my first successful run without losing any health."; "That NPC bugged out and killed my run."
4. (Australia, New Zealand) A rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.AustraliaNew-Zealand
5. Something continuous or sequential.Examples: "And I'll tell ya, things aren't quite the same / When I'm rushing on my run."; "Frank Fixwell, a 25 year-old male, has been on a heroin "run" (daily use) for the past two years."; "1977, Richard P. Rettig, Manual J. Torres, Gerald R. Garrett, Manny: a criminal-addict's story, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) →ISBN I was hooked on dope, and hooked bad, during this whole period, but I was also hooked behind robbery. When you're on a heroin run, you stay loaded so long as you can score."slang
6. Something continuous or sequential.
adj (English)
1. (of a zoology) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.Examples: "The temperature of the water is consequently much higher than in either England or Scotland, and many newly run salmon will be found in early spring in the upper waters of Irish rivers where obstructions exist."; "It may be very much a metallic appearance as opposed to the silver freshness of a recently run salmon."; "Thus, on almost any day of the year, a fresh-run salmon may be caught legally somewhere in the British Isles."not-comparable
Definition source: Wiktionary