Definitions For Run
noun
- A score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely
- The act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace
- A regular trip
- A short trip
- (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team
- The act of testing something
- An unbroken chronological sequence
- The pouring forth of a fluid
- A row of unravelled stitches
- A race run on foot
- A race between candidates for elective office
- An unbroken series of events
- A small stream
- The production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.)
- Unrestricted freedom to use
- The continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation
verb
- Become undone
- Come unraveled or undone as if by snagging
- Reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating
- Cause to perform
- Progress by being changed
- Change from one state to another
- Compete in a race
- Run, stand, or compete for an office or a position
- Pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
- Pass over, across, or through
- Perform as expected when applied
- Be operating, running or functioning
- Carry out
- Cause to emit recorded audio or video
- Include as the content; broadcast or publicize
- Travel a route regularly
- Cover by running; run a certain distance
- Move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
- Travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means
- Run with the ball; in such sports as football
- Keep company
- Sail before the wind
- Be diffused
- Move along, of liquids
- Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- Cause an animal to move fast
- Move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way
- Deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor
- Set animals loose to graze
- Direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.
- Make without a miss
- Carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine
- Occur persistently
- Continue to exist
- Extend or continue for a certain period of time
- Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- Cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- Be affected by; be subjected to
- Have a particular form
- Change or be different within limits
- To move with your legs at a speed that is faster than walking
- To leave a place quickly by running
- To run as part of a sport, for exercise, or in a race
- An act of running
- A continuous series of similar things
- A continuous series of performances or showings
Examples of Run in a Sentence
- How fast can you run?
- He runs faster than anyone else on the team.
- She ran up the stairs to get her jacket.
- He goes for a six-mile run every evening.
- She took the dogs out for a run.
noun
- A score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely
- The act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace
- A regular trip
- A short trip
- (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team
- The act of testing something
- An unbroken chronological sequence
- The pouring forth of a fluid
- A row of unravelled stitches
- A race run on foot
- A race between candidates for elective office
- An unbroken series of events
- A small stream
- The production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.)
- Unrestricted freedom to use
- The continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation
verb
- Become undone
- Come unraveled or undone as if by snagging
- Reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating
- Cause to perform
- Progress by being changed
- Change from one state to another
- Compete in a race
- Run, stand, or compete for an office or a position
- Pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
- Pass over, across, or through
- Perform as expected when applied
- Be operating, running or functioning
- Carry out
- Cause to emit recorded audio or video
- Include as the content; broadcast or publicize
- Travel a route regularly
- Cover by running; run a certain distance
- Move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
- Travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means
- Run with the ball; in such sports as football
- Keep company
- Sail before the wind
- Be diffused
- Move along, of liquids
- Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- Cause an animal to move fast
- Move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way
- Deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor
- Set animals loose to graze
- Direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.
- Make without a miss
- Carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine
- Occur persistently
- Continue to exist
- Extend or continue for a certain period of time
- Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- Cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- Be affected by; be subjected to
- Have a particular form
- Change or be different within limits
- To move with your legs at a speed that is faster than walking
- To leave a place quickly by running
- To run as part of a sport, for exercise, or in a race
- An act of running
- A continuous series of similar things
- A continuous series of performances or showings
- How fast can you run?
- He runs faster than anyone else on the team.
- She ran up the stairs to get her jacket.
- He goes for a six-mile run every evening.
- She took the dogs out for a run.