English Dictionary

run

/ɹʌn/

verb

(intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.) / (intransitive) To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.

I love to run in the park every morning.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.)

Run, Sarah, run!

意味（2）

(intransitive) To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.

The horse ran the length of the track.

意味（3）

(transitive) To cause to move quickly or lightly.

Every day I run my dog across the field and back.

意味（4）

(transitive or intransitive) To compete in a race.

The horse will run the Preakness next year.

意味（5）

(transitive) To transport someone or something, notionally at a brisk pace.

Could you run me over to the store?

意味（6）

(transitive, intransitive) Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).

the bus (train, plane, ferry boat, etc) runs between Newport and Riverside

意味（7）

(transitive) To transit a length of a river, as in whitewater rafting.

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[…]

意味（8）

(intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.

意味（9）

(American football, transitive or intransitive) To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.

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.

意味（10）

(transitive) To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.

The horse ran a great race.

意味（11）

(intransitive) To flee from a danger or towards help.

Whenever things get tough, she cuts and runs.

意味（12）

(figuratively, transitive) To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.

If you have a collision with a vehicle oncoming from the right, after having run priority to the right, you are at fault.

意味（13）

(transitive, juggling, colloquial) To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.

意味（14）

(intransitive) Of a liquid, to flow.

The river runs through the forest.

意味（15）

(intransitive, figuratively) To move or spread quickly.

There's a strange story running around the neighborhood.

意味（16）

(intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.

Your nose is running.

意味（17）

(transitive) To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from or into an object.

You'll have to run the water a while before it gets hot.

意味（18）

(intransitive) To become liquid; to melt.

As Wax dissolves, as Ice begins to run,

意味（19）

(intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).

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

意味（20）

To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.

to run bullets

意味（21）

(nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.

意味（22）

(transitive) To control or manage, be in charge of.

My uncle ran a corner store for forty years.

意味（23）

(intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.

I have decided to run for governor of California.

意味（24）

(transitive) To make run in a race.

He ran his best horse in the Derby.

意味（25）

(transitive) To make run in an election.

The Green Party is running twenty candidates in this election.

意味（26）

To exert continuous activity; to proceed.

to run through life; to run in a circle

意味（27）

(intransitive) To be presented in the media.

The story will run on the 6-o'clock news.

意味（28）

(transitive) To print or broadcast in the media.

run a story; run an ad

意味（29）

(transitive) To smuggle (illegal goods).

to run guns; to run rum

意味（30）

(transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.

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

意味（31）

(intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).

The border runs for 3000 miles.

意味（32）

(intransitive) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).

The sale will run for ten days.

意味（33）

(transitive) To make something extend in space.

I need to run this wire along the wall.

意味（34）

(intransitive) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.

My car stopped running.

意味（35）

(transitive) To make a machine operate.

It's full. You can run the dishwasher now.

意味（36）

(transitive) 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.

意味（37）

To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.

to run from one subject to another

意味（38）

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

Our supplies are running low.

意味（39）

(transitive) To cost a large amount of money.

Buying a new laptop will run you a thousand dollars.

意味（40）

(intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.

My stocking is running.

意味（41）

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,

意味（42）

To cause to enter; to thrust.

to run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into one's foot

意味（43）

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

They ran the ship aground.

意味（44）

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

to run a line

意味（45）

To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).

to run the risk of losing one's life

意味（46）

To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.

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

意味（47）

To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.

意味（48）

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.

意味（49）

To control or have precedence in a card game.

Every three or four hands he would run the table.

意味（50）

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

Which Sovereignity, with us, so undoubtedly resideth in the Person of the King, that his ordinary style runneth — Our Sovereign Lord the King

意味（51）

(archaic) To 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)

意味（52）

To have growth or development.

Boys and girls run up rapidly.

意味（53）

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

A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

意味（54）

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.

意味（55）

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 […].

意味（56）

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

意味（57）

(video games, rare) To speedrun.