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▸ verb: (intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.)
▸ verb: (intransitive) To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cover (a course or a distance) by running.
▸ verb: (transitive) To complete a running course or event in (a given time).
▸ verb: (intransitive) To move briskly or smoothly with a motion of sliding, rolling, sweeping etc.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause to move quickly or lightly.
▸ verb: (transitive or intransitive) To compete in a race.
▸ verb: (transitive) To transport (someone or something), notionally at a brisk pace.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive) Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause (a vehicle) to travel a route
▸ verb: (transitive) To transit (a length of a river), as in whitewater rafting.
▸ verb: (intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
▸ verb: (American football, transitive or intransitive) To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
▸ verb: (transitive) To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To flee from a danger or towards help.
▸ verb: (figurative, transitive) To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
▸ verb: (transitive, juggling, colloquial) To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
▸ verb: (fluids) To flow.
▸ verb: (intransitive) Of a liquid, to flow.
▸ verb: (intransitive, figuratively) To move or spread quickly.
▸ verb: (intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
▸ verb: (transitive) To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from or into an object.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To become liquid; to melt.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
▸ verb: To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
▸ verb: (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
▸ verb: (transitive) To control or manage; to be in charge of.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.
▸ verb: To make participate in certain kinds of competitions.
▸ verb: (transitive) To make enter a race.
▸ verb: (transitive) To make stand in an election.
▸ verb: To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To be presented in the media.
▸ verb: (transitive) To print or broadcast in the media.
▸ verb: (transitive) To smuggle (illegal goods).
▸ verb: (transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
▸ verb: To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
▸ verb: (intransitive) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
▸ verb: (transitive) To make (something) extend in space.
▸ verb: (intransitive) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
▸ verb: (transitive) To make a machine operate.
▸ verb: (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
▸ verb: To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
▸ verb: (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
▸ verb: (transitive) To cost an amount of money.
▸ verb: (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause stitched clothing to unravel.
▸ verb: To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
▸ verb: To cause to enter; to thrust.
▸ verb: To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
▸ verb: To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
▸ verb: To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
▸ verb: To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
▸ verb: To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
▸ verb: 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.
▸ verb: To control or have precedence in a card game.
▸ verb: To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
▸ verb: (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
▸ verb: To have growth or development.
▸ verb: To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
▸ verb: To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
▸ verb: To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
▸ verb: (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
▸ verb: (video games, rare) To speedrun.
▸ verb: (sports, especially baseball) To eject from a game or match.
▸ verb: To press (a bank, etc.) with immediate demands for payment.
▸ noun: Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
▸ noun: Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily on foot); dash or errand, trip.
▸ noun: A pleasure trip.
▸ noun: Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
▸ noun: Migration of fish.
▸ noun: A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
▸ noun: A literal or figurative path or course for movement relating to:
▸ noun: A (regular) trip or route.
▸ noun: The route taken while running or skiing.
▸ noun: (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
▸ noun: The distance sailed by a ship.
▸ noun: A voyage.
▸ noun: A trial.
▸ noun: (mathematics, computing) The execution of a program or model
▸ noun: (video games, speedrunning) A playthrough, or attempted playthrough; a session of play.
▸ noun: Unrestricted use. Only used in have the run of.
▸ noun: An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
▸ noun: (Australia, New Zealand) A rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
▸ noun: State of being current; currency; popularity.
▸ noun: Something continuous or sequential.
▸ noun: A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
▸ noun: A series of tries in a game that were successful.
▸ noun: A production quantity (such as in a factory).
▸ noun: The period of showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
▸ noun: (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
▸ noun: (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
▸ noun: (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
▸ noun: A flow of liquid; a leak.
▸ noun: (chiefly eastern North Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)
▸ noun: A quick pace, faster than a walk.
▸ noun: (of horses) A fast gallop.
▸ noun: (banking) A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
▸ noun: Any sudden large demand for something.
▸ noun: Various horizontal dimensions or surfaces
▸ noun: The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
▸ noun: The horizontal length of a set of stairs
▸ noun: (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
▸ noun: A standard or unexceptional group or category.
▸ noun: In sports
▸ noun: (baseball) A score when a runner touches all bases legally; the act of a runner scoring.
▸ noun: (cricket) The act of passing from one wicket to another; the point scored for this.
▸ noun: (American football) A running play.
▸ noun: (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
▸ noun: (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
▸ noun: The distance drilled with a bit, in oil drilling.
▸ noun: A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
▸ noun: (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
▸ noun: (mining) The 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.
▸ noun: A pair or set of millstones.
▸ adjective: In a liquid state; melted or molten.
▸ adjective: Cast in a mould.
▸ adjective: Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
▸ adjective: (of a zoology) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.
▸ adjective: Smuggled.
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