run
//ɹʌn//
Forms
- present (v1)
- run
- past (v2)
- ran
- past participle (v3)
- run
- present participle
- running
- 3rd person singular
- runs
- Plural
- runs
Definitions
1.To move swiftly.
- I'm not ready to run a marathon.
- Run your fingers through my hair.
- Could you run me over to the store?
2.To flow.
- Why is the hose still running?
- The current runs to the toaster.
- Run the water out into the pool.
3.To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
- The buses run every ten minutes.
- You see, humans don't create time; if we did we'd never run out of it.
- We have run out of sugar.
4.To control or manage; to be in charge of.
- My parents think they run my life.
- My uncle ran a corner store for forty years.
- He is running the candidate's expensive campaign.
1.Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
- I just got back from my morning run.
- Krohn-Dehli took advantage of a lucky bounce of the ball after a battling run on the left flank by Simon Poulsen, dummied two defenders and shot low through goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg's legs after 24 minutes.
2.Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily on foot); dash or errand, trip.
- I need to make a run to the store.
- Jackson said the white firefighters attempted to make him and other Black firefighters miss runs by not waking them up along with everyone else.
3.A pleasure trip.
- Let's go for a run in the car.
- And I think of giving her a run in London for a change.
4.Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
- During his run from the police, he claimed to have a metaphysical experience which can only be described as “having passed through an abyss.”
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #202
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Common
- General reading & writing
- Very common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Common
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English runnen, rennen (“to run”), alteration (due to the past participle runne, runnen, yronne) of Middle English rinnen (“to run”), from Old English rinnan, iernan (“to run”) and Old Norse rinna (“to run”), both from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną (“to run”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“to boil, churn”).