To move swiftly.

• The bus (train, plane, ferry boat, etc) runs between Newport and Riverside.
• 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, […]

To move swiftly.

• 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.

To move swiftly.

• 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[…]

To move swiftly.

American-footballball-gamesfootballTo move swiftly.

• 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.

To move swiftly.

• Whenever things get tough, she cuts and runs.
• When he's broke, he runs to me for money.

To move swiftly.

• The car in front just ran a red light.
• If you have a collision with a vehicle oncoming from the right, after having run priority to the right, you are at fault.

artshobbiesjugglingTo move swiftly.

To flow.

• The river runs through the forest into the North Sea.
• There's blood running down your leg.

To flow.

• There's a strange story running around the neighborhood that you had a miscarriage last year.
• The flu is running through my daughter's kindergarten.

To flow.

• Your nose is running.
• Why is the hose still running?

To flow.

• Run the water out into the pool.
• They ran the electricity back behind the wall.

To flow.

• As Wax dissolves, as Ice begins to run,
• The Sussex ores run pretty freely in the Fire for Iron-Ores; otherwise they would hardly be worth working.

To flow.

• During washing, the red from the rug ran onto the white sheet, staining it pink.

To flow.

• to run bullets
• 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.

nauticaltransportTo sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.

To control or manage; to be in charge of.

• My uncle ran a corner store for forty years.
• She runs the fundraising.

To be a candidate in an election.

• I have decided to run for governor of California.
• We're trying to find somebody to run against him next year.

To make participate in certain kinds of competitions.

• He ran his best horse in the Derby.
• We're running two cars in today's rally.

To make participate in certain kinds of competitions.

• The Green Party is running twenty candidates in this election.

To exert continuous activity; to proceed.

• to run through life; to run in a circle

To be presented in the media.

• The story will run on the 6-o'clock news.
• The latest Robin Williams movie is running at the Silver City theatre.

To print or broadcast in the media.

• run a story; run an ad

To smuggle (illegal goods).

• They are running guns to the rebels.
• [...]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

agriculturebusinesslifestyleTo sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.

• Looks like we're gonna have to run the tomatoes again.

To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.

• The border runs for 3000 miles.
• The leash runs along a wire.

To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.

• The sale will run for ten days.
• The contract runs through 2008.

To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.

• I need to run this wire along the wall.

To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.

• My car stopped running.
• That computer runs twenty-four hours a day.

To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.

• It's full. You can run the dishwasher now.
• Don't run the engine so fast.

To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.

• They ran twenty blood tests on me and they still don't know what's wrong.
• Our coach had us running plays for the whole practice.

To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.

• to run from one subject to another
• 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,

To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).

• Our food supplies are running low because money is running short.
• They frequently overspent and soon ran into debt.

To cost an amount of money.

• Buying a new laptop will run you a thousand dollars.
• Laptops run about a thousand dollars apiece.

Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.

• My stocking is running.

To cause stitched clothing to unravel.

• 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!"

To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.

• To run the world back to its first original and infancy, and, as it were, to view nature in its cradle,
• 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.

To cause to enter; to thrust.

• to run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into one's foot
• “You run your head into the lion's mouth,” answered Mac-Ivor.

To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.

• They ran the ship aground.
• [...]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;

To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.

• to run a line

To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).

• to run the risk of losing one's life
• He runneth two dangers.

obsoleteTo put at hazard; to venture; to risk.

• He would himself be in the Highlands to receive them, and run his fortune with them.

obsoleteTo tease with sarcasms and ridicule.

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.

To control or have precedence in a card game.

• Every three or four hands he would run the table.

To be in form thus, as a combination of words.

• Which Sovereignty, with us, ſo undoubtedly reſideth in the Perſon of the King, that his ordinary Style runneth — Our Sovereign Lord the King: […]
• 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.”

archaicTo be popularly known; to be generally received.

• [...]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)
• Neither was he ignorant what report ran of himselfe.

To have growth or development.

• Boys and girls run up rapidly.
• or the Richness of the Ground cause them [turnips] to run too much to Leaves

To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.

• A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
• It hath been observed, that the temperate climates usually run into moderate governments, and the extremes into despotic power.

To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.

• Certain covenants run with the land.
• 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.

To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).

• Don't let me run the fate of all who show indulgence to your sex […].

golfhobbieslifestyleTo strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.

rarevideo-gamesTo speedrun.

ball-gamesbaseballgamesTo eject from a game or match.

• Jackson got himself run in the top of the sixth for arguing a borderline strike three call.

To press (a bank, etc.) with immediate demands for payment.

slangball-gamesbasketballgamesTo play basketball (usually pickup).

• 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
• "You wanna run?"

hobbieslifestyleskiingA literal or figurative path or course for movement relating to:

A literal or figurative path or course for movement relating to:

• a good run; a run of fifty miles

A literal or figurative path or course for movement relating to:

• a run to China

A literal or figurative path or course for movement relating to:

• The data got lost, so I'll have to perform another run of the experiment.

computingengineeringmathematicsA literal or figurative path or course for movement relating to:

• 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.

video-gamesA literal or figurative path or course for movement relating to:

• This was my first successful run without losing any health.
• That NPC bugged out and killed my run.

Unrestricted use. Only used in have the run of.

• He can have the run of the house.

An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.

• He set up a rabbit run.

A rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.

State of being current; currency; popularity.

• It is impossible for detached papers[...] to have a general run, or long continuance, if they are not diversified[...].

Something continuous or sequential.

• I’m having a run of bad luck.
• 1782 Frances Burney Cecilia “ […] had had the preceding night an uncommon run of luck”.

Something continuous or sequential.

• If our team can keep up their strong defense, expect them to make a run in this tournament.

Something continuous or sequential.

• Yesterday we did a run of 12,000 units.
• The book’s initial press run will be 5,000 copies.

Something continuous or sequential.

• The run of the show lasted two weeks, and we sold out every night.
• It is the last week of our French cinema run.

slangSomething continuous or sequential.

• 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.

card-gamesgamesSomething continuous or sequential.

entertainmentlifestylemusicSomething continuous or sequential.

A flow of liquid; a leak.

• The constant run of water from the faucet annoys me.
• a run of must in wine-making

A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)

• The military campaign near that creek was known as "The battle of Bull Run".

A quick pace, faster than a walk.

• He broke into a run.

A quick pace, faster than a walk.

bankingbusinessA sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.

• Financial insecurity led to a run on the banks, as customers feared for the security of their savings.

Any sudden large demand for something.

• There was a run on Christmas presents.

Various horizontal dimensions or surfaces

Various horizontal dimensions or surfaces

businessconstructionmanufacturingVarious horizontal dimensions or surfaces

A standard or unexceptional group or category.

• He stood out from the usual run of applicants.

ball-gamesbasketballgamesIn sports:

• After trailing by as much as 12 points in the second half, Florida went on a 8-0 run to get back in the game.

slangball-gamesbasketballgamesIn sports:

• I’m coming up next month to work for the summer and wanna know where I can get some run or any intel on indoor and outdoor courts.
• I used to see homies getting some run in regularly at Pomeroy but it died down this summer for some reason... dunno why.. them runs was fireeeeeee

ball-gamesbaseballgamesIn sports:

ball-gamescricketgamesIn sports:

American-footballball-gamesfootballIn sports:

• … one of the greatest runs of all time.
• Aaron Roberts added an insurance touchdown on a one-yard run.

golfhobbieslifestyleIn sports:

golfhobbieslifestyleIn sports:

The distance drilled with a bit, in oil drilling.

• Well, when you compare the cone type with the cross roller bit, you get a longer run, there is less tendency of the bit to go flat while running in various formations. It cleans itself better.

A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.

• I have a run in my stocking.
• A camera pans the cocktail hour / Behind a blind of potted palms / And finds a lady in a Paris dress / With runs in her nylons

nauticaltransportThe stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.

businessminingThe 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; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.

A pair or set of millstones.

One’s gait while running; the way one runs.

• I think they only have a weird run because their leg hurts.