English Dictionary

runt

/ˈɹʌnt/

noun

The smallest animal of a litter. / (by extension) The smallest child in the family. / Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person. / (slang) An uninfluential or unimportant person; a nobody.

The runt of the litter was the tiniest puppy.

意味（1）

The smallest animal of a litter.

Sometimes, as we have seen, one member of a litter is a runt, much smaller than the rest. He is unable to fight for food as strongly as the rest, and runts often die. We have considered the conditions under which it would actually pay a mother to let a runt die.

意味（2）

(by extension) The smallest child in the family.

the runt of the family

意味（3）

Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person.

意味（4）

(slang) An uninfluential or unimportant person; a nobody.

意味（5）

(networking) An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes.

意味（6）

(typography) A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph.

意味（7）

A breed of pigeon related to the carrier pigeon.

意味（8）

(obsolete, UK, dialect) A hardened stem or stalk of a plant.

Neither young poles nor old runts are durable

意味（9）

A bow.