English Dictionary

run

/ɹʌn/

noun

Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet. / Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily on foot); dash or errand, trip. / A pleasure trip.

I went for a run this morning.

意味（1）

Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.

I just got back from my morning run.

意味（2）

Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily on foot); dash or errand, trip.

[…] and on the 18th of January this squadron put to sea. The first place of rendezvous was the boy of port St. Julian, upon the coast of Patagonia, and all accidents were provided against with admirable foresight. Their run to port St. Julian was dangerous […]

意味（3）

A pleasure trip.

Let's go for a run in the car.

意味（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.”

意味（5）

Migration (of fish).

意味（6）

A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.

意味（7）

A (regular) trip or route.

The bus on the Cherry Street run is always crowded.

意味（8）

The route taken while running or skiing.

Which run did you do today?

意味（9）

(skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.

意味（10）

The distance sailed by a ship.

a good run; a run of fifty miles

意味（11）

A voyage.

a run to China

意味（12）

A trial.

The data got lost, so I'll have to perform another run of the experiment.

意味（13）

(mathematics, computing) The execution of a program or model

This morning's run of the SHIPS statistical model gave Hurricane Priscilla a 74% chance of gaining at least 30 knots of intensity in 24 hours, reconfirmed by the HMON and GFS dynamical models.

意味（14）

(video games) A playthrough, or attempted playthrough; a session of play.

This was my first successful run without losing any health.

意味（15）

Unrestricted use. Only used in have the run of.

He can have the run of the house.

意味（16）

An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.

He set up a rabbit run.

意味（17）

(Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.

意味（18）

State of being current; currency; popularity.

It is impossible for detached papers… to have a general run, or long continuance, if they are not diversified….

意味（19）

A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.

I’m having a run of bad luck.

意味（20）

A series of tries in a game that were successful.

If our team can keep up their strong defense, expect them to make a run in this tournament.

意味（21）

A production quantity (such as in a factory).

Yesterday we did a run of 12,000 units.

意味（22）

The period of showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.

The run of the show lasted two weeks, and we sold out every night.

意味（23）

(slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.

And I'll tell ya, things aren't quite the same / When I'm rushing on my run.

意味（24）

(card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.

意味（25）

(music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.

意味（26）

A flow of liquid; a leak.

The constant run of water from the faucet annoys me.

意味（27）

(chiefly eastern Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)

The military campaign near that creek was known as The battle of Bull Run.

意味（28）

A quick pace, faster than a walk.

意味（29）

(of horses) A fast gallop.

意味（30）

A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.

Financial insecurity led to a run on the banks, as customers feared for the security of their savings.

意味（31）

Any sudden large demand for something.

There was a run on Christmas presents.

意味（32）

The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.

意味（33）

The horizontal length of a set of stairs

意味（34）

(construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.

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A standard or unexceptional group or category.

He stood out from the usual run of applicants.

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(baseball) A score when a runner touches all bases legally; the act of a runner scoring.

意味（37）

(cricket) The act of passing from one wicket to another; the point scored for this.

意味（38）

(American football) A running play.

… one of the greatest runs of all time.

意味（39）

(golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.

意味（40）

(golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.

意味（41）

The distance drilled with a bit, in oil drilling.

Well, when you compare the cone type with the cross roller bit, you get a longer run, there is less tendency of the bit to go flat while running in various formations. It cleans itself better.

意味（42）

A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.

I have a run in my stocking.

意味（43）

(nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.

意味（44）

(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.

意味（45）

A pair or set of millstones.