run
- sense 1: move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time; "Don't run--you'll be out of breath"; "The children ran to the store"
- run
- travel_rapidly speed hurry zip
- sense 2: escape or flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"
- run scarper turn_tail lam run_away bunk break_away
- sense 3: stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point; "Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn't go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"; "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets"
- run go pass lead extend
- sense 4: direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.; "She is running a relief operation in the Sudan"
- operate run
- sense 5: have a particular form; "the story or argument runs....", "as the saying goes..."
- run go
- sense 6: move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"
- run flow course
- sense 7: perform as expected when applied; "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well?"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore"
- function work operate go run
- sense 8: change or be different within limits; "Estimates for the losses in the earthquake range as high as $2 billion"; "Interest rates run from 5 to 10 percent"; "The instruments ranged from tuba to cymbals"; "My students range from very bright to dull"
- range run
- sense 9: run, stand, or compete for an office or a position; "Who's running for treasurer this year?"
- campaign run
- sense 10: cause to be emit recorded sounds; "They ran the tapes over and over again"; "Can you play my favorite record?"
- play run
- sense 11: move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way; "who are these people running around in the building?"; "She runs around telling everyone of her troubles"; "let the dogs run free"
- run
- sense 12: have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined; "She tends to be nervous before her lectures"; "These dresses run small"; "He inclined to corpulence"
- tend be_given lean incline run
- sense 13: execute a program or process, as on a computer or a machine; "Run the dishwasher"; "run a new program on the Mac"
- run
- enforce implement apply
- compel oblige obligate
- induce stimulate cause have get make
- sense 14: be operating, running or functioning, as of engines or machines; "The car is still running--turn it off!"
- run
- function work operate go run
- sense 15: change from one state to another; "run amok"; "run rogue"; "run riot"
- run
- sense 16: cause to perform; "run a subject"; "run a process"
- run
- process treat
- affect impact bear_upon bear_on touch_on touch
- sense 17: be affected by; be subjected to; as in"run a temperature,"; "run a risk"
- run
- incur
- subject
- queer expose scupper endanger peril
- affect impact bear_upon bear_on touch_on touch
- sense 18: continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures"
- prevail persist die_hard run endure
- sense 19: occur persistently; "Musical talent runs in the family"
- run
- sense 20: include as the content; broadcast or publicize; "We ran the ad three times"; "This paper carries a restaurant review"; "All major networks carried the press conference"
- carry run
- circulate circularize circularise distribute disseminate propagate broadcast spread diffuse disperse pass_around
- sense 21: carry out; "run an errand"
- run
- carry_through accomplish execute carry_out fulfill fulfil
- sense 22: guide or pass over something; "He ran his eyes over her body"; "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine"; "He drew her hair through his fingers"
- guide run draw pass
- sense 23: cause something to pass or lead somewhere; "Run the wire behind the cabinet"
- run lead
- sense 24: make without a miss; in sports or games
- run
- sense 25: deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor
- run black_market
- sense 26: cause an animal to move fast; "run the dogs"
- run
- sense 27: be diffused; "These dyes and colors are guaranteed not to run"
- run bleed
- diffuse spread spread_out fan_out
- sense 28: Nautical language: sail before the wind
- run
- sense 29: cover by running; run a certain distance; "She ran 10 miles that day"
- run
- pass go_through go_across
- sense 30: extend or continue for a certain period of time; "The film runs 5 hours"
- run run_for
- sense 31: set animals loose to graze
- run
- free liberate release unloose unloosen loose
- sense 32: keep company; of male animals
- run consort
- sense 33: run with the ball; in sports, such as football
- run
- run
- travel_rapidly speed hurry zip
- sense 34: travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means; "Run to the store!"; "She always runs to Italy, because she has a lover there"
- run
- sense 35: travel a route regularly; "Ships ply the waters near the coast"
- ply run
- sense 36: pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods"
- hunt run hunt_down track_down
- sense 37: compete in a race; "he is running the Marathon this year"; "let's race and see who gets there first"
- race run
- sense 38: progress by being changed; "The speech has to go through several more drafts"; "run through your presentation before the meeting"
- move go run
- sense 39: reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating; "melt butter"; "melt down gold"; "The wax melted in the sun"
- melt run melt_down
- dissolve resolve break_up
- sense 40: come unraveled or undone as if by snagging, of stockings; "Her nylons were running"
- ladder run
- break separate split_up fall_apart come_apart
- sense 41: become undone, as of clothes such as knitted fabrics; "the sweater unraveled"
- run unravel