Challenger and Iran Summerlee along, one at each of his elbows, while Lord John covered our retreat, firing again and again as savage heads snarled at us out of the bushes.
Small planesrun between Alor and Langkawi. BUS: Express busses leave the bus terminal on the corner of Jl. Langgar and Jl. Stesyen for K. Kedah,[…]
2013 April 15, Mary Ann Sternberg,Along the River Road: Past and Present on Louisiana's Historic Byway, LSU Press,→ISBN, page62:
The first steam ferry or tug, the Little Minnie,ran the river in the 1870s. When vehicles were to cross, a barge was affixed to the Minnie to carry them.
(transitive) To cause (a vehicle) to travel a route.
202411, David Peter Alan, “NJ Transit Runs Special Trains to “Railroad Museum[for a day]””, inLackawanna Coalition Railgram[2]:
This year, NJ Transit allowed nonmotorists[…] to reach the event byrunning special trains every 2 hours 4 round trips). The location was the old Lackawanna Railroad freight house, about a 10-minute walk from the Boonton Station, which normally has service only during peak-commuting hours on weekdays.
1979, United States. Forest Service. Rocky Mountain Region,Piedra River: Final Environmental Impact Statement & Wild & Scenic River Study, page74:
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 evenrun it yourself, why do think you can decide who is and who is not competent? River running, as has been[…]
2019 December 29, Chad Finn, “24 thoughts on the Patriots’ loss to the Dolphins”, inBoston Globe[3]:
Then, on their second possession, Isaiah Fordran for 11 yards after abandoning a flea flicker. [...] The Patriotsran the ball just 27 times despite averaging 5 yards per carry.
1717 [a. 18CE], Ovid, translated byJoseph Addison,Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books. Translated by the most eminent hands. Adorn'd with sculptures[4], Book the Third, The Story ofNarcissus, page92:
As Wax dissolves, as Ice begins torun,
1729,John Woodward,An Attempt Towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England, Tome I, page223:
TheSussex oresrun pretty freely in the Fire for Iron-Ores; otherwise they would hardly be worth working.
1972 December 29, Richard Schickel, “Masterpieces underrated and overlooked”, inLife, volume73, number25,page22:
A friend of mine whoruns an intellectual magazine was grousing about his movie critic, complaining that though the fellow had likedThe Godfather (page 58), he had neglected to label it clearly as a masterpiece.
1728, Jonathan Swift, “An answer to a paper, calledA memorial of the poor inhabitants, tradesmen, and labourers of the kingdom of Ireland”, inThe Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, published1757, page175:
[...]whereas in the business of laying heavy impositions two and two never made more than one ; which happens by lessening the import, and the strong temptation ofrunning such goods as paid high duties
Theyran twenty blood tests on me and they still don't know what's wrong.
Our coach had usrunning plays for the whole practice.
I willrun the sample.
Don'trun that software unless you have permission.
My computer is too old torun the new OS.
To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
torun from one subject to another
1697, Joseph Addison, “An essay on the Georgics”, inThe Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Aeneis[6], byJohn Dryden:
Virgil was so well acquainted with this Secret, that to set off his firstGeorgic, he hasrun into a set of Precepts, which are almost foreign to his Subject,
There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — norunning a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;[…].
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To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
1691,John Ray,The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation:
[...]besides all this, a talkative person must needs be impertinent, and speak many idle words, and so render himself burdensome and odious to Company, and may perchancerun himself upon great Inconveniences, by blabbing out his own or other’s Secrets;
1706,John Locke,Of the Conduct of the Understanding[9], Section 24. Partiality:
[...]and others, accustomed to retired speculations,run natural philosophy into metaphysical notions and the abstract generalities of logic ;
To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
torun a line
(transitive) To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
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.
To control or have precedence in a card game.
Every three or four hands he wouldrun the table.
To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
1722 [1647],Robert Sanderson, translated by Thomas Lewis,A Preservative Against Schism and Rebellion, in the Most Trying Times[10], volume 1, translation ofDe juramenti promissorii obligatione, page355:
Which Sovereignty, with us, ſo undoubtedly reſideth in the Perſon of the King, that his ordinary Stylerunneth —Our Sovereign Lord the King:[…]
The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chantyrunning: “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”
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(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 theyrun a great while in Rome)
1603,Richard Knolles,The Generall Historie of the Turkes,[…], London:[…] Adam Islip,→OCLC:
Neither was he ignorant what reportran of himselfe.
To have growth or development.
Boys and girlsrun up rapidly.
1707,J[ohn] Mortimer,The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land.[…], London:[…] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock[…], and J[onathan] Robinson[…],→OCLC:
or the Richness of the Ground cause them [turnips] torun too much to Leaves
To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
1708, Jonathan Swift, “The Sentiments of a Church-of-England Man with respect to Religion and Government”, inThe Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, published1757, page235:
It hath been observed, that the temperate climates usuallyrun into moderate governments, and the extremes into despotic power.
To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
Customsrun only upon our goods imported or exported, and that but once for all; whereas interestruns as well upon our ships as goods, and must be yearly paid.
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Krohn-Dehli took advantage of a lucky bounce of the ball after a battlingrun on the left flank by Simon Poulsen, dummied two defenders and shot low through goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg's legs after 24 minutes.
Act or instance ofhurrying (to or from a place)(not necessarily on foot);dash orerrand,trip.
I need to make arun to the store.
1759, N. Tindal,The Continuation of Mr Rapin's History of England, volume 21 (continuation volume 9), page 92:
[…] 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. Theirrun to port St. Julian was dangerous[…]
1987 April 25, Kim Westheimer, “A Black Gay Fireman's Story”, inGay Community News, page 1:
Jackson said the white firefighters attempted to make him and other Black firefighters missruns by not waking them up along with everyone else.
This morning'srun 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.
1715 June 5 (Gregorian calendar),Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 45. Wednesday, May 25.[1715.]”, inThe Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq;[…], volume IV, London:[…]Jacob Tonson,[…], published1721,→OCLC:
It is impossible for detached papers[...] to have a generalrun, or long continuance, if they are not diversified[...].
Something continuous or sequential.
A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
And I'll tell ya, things aren't quite the same / When I'm rushing on myrun.
1975, Lloyd Y. Young, Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, Brian S. Katcher,Applied Therapeutics for Clinical Pharmacists:
Frank Fixwell, a 25 year-old male, has been on a heroin "run" (daily use) for the past two years.
1977, Richard P. Rettig, Manual J. Torres, Gerald R. Garrett,Manny: a criminal-addict's story, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)→ISBN
I was hooked on dope, and hooked bad, during this whole period, but I was also hooked behind robbery. When you're on a heroinrun, you stay loaded so long as you can score.
2001, Robin J. Harman,Handbook of Pharmacy Health Education, Pharmaceutical Press,→ISBN, page172:
This can develop quite quickly (over a matter of hours) during a cocainerun or when cocaine use becomes a daily habit.
2010, Robert DuPont,The Selfish Brain: Learning from Addiction, Hazelden Publishing,→ISBN, page158:
DA depletion leads to the crash that characteristically ends a cocainerun.
1832,Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court, page21:
Well, when you compare the cone type with the cross roller bit, you get a longerrun, there is less tendency of the bit to go flat while running in various formations. It cleans itself better.
1975,Joni Mitchell, “The Boho Dance”, inThe Hissing of Summer Lawns:
A camera pans the cocktail hour / Behind a blind of potted palms / And finds a lady in a Paris dress / Withruns in her nylons
(nautical) Thestern of the underwater body of aship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
(mining) The horizontal distance to which adrift may be carried, either by licence of theproprietor of amine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which avein ofore or other substance takes.
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1921, L. W. Ferris, H. W. Redfield, W. R. North, “The Volatile Acids and the Volatile Oxidizable Substances of Cream and Experimental Butter”, inJournal of Dairy Science, volume 4, page522:
Samples of the regularrun butter were sealed in 1 pound tins and sent to Washington, where the butter was scored and examined.
1735, Thomas Frankz,A tour through France, Flanders, and Germany: in a letter to Robert Savil, page18:
[...] the Sides are generally made of Holland's Tiles, or Plates ofrun Iron, ornamented variously as Fancy dictates, [...]
1833,The Cabinet Cyclopaedia: A treatise on the progressive improvement and present state of the Manufactures in Metal, volume 2,Iron and Steel (printed in London), page 314:
Vast quantities are cast in sand moulds, with that kind ofrun steel which is so largely used in the production of common table-knives and forks.
c.1839, (Richard of Raindale,The Plan of my House vindicated, quoted by) T. T. B. in theDwelling of Richard of Raindale, King of the Moors, published inThe Mirror, number 966, 7 September 1839, page 153:
1889, Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell,Fishing: Salmon and Trout, fifth edition, page 185:
The temperature of the water is consequently much higher than in either England or Scotland, and many newlyrun salmon will be found in early spring in the upper waters of Irish rivers where obstructions exist.
1986, Arthur Oglesby,Fly fishing for salmon and sea trout, page15:
It may be very much a metallic appearance as opposed to the silver freshness of a recentlyrun salmon.
2005, Rod Sutterby, Malcolm Greenhalgh,Atlantic Salmon: An Illustrated Natural History, page86:
Thus, on almost any day of the year, a fresh-run salmon may be caught legally somewhere in the British Isles.
Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the criticaltonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Han [Johan] hadde den hausten lege i trætta med Omund Horpestad um ein kvernastad, og daa hadde han truga med at han skulde takarun paa Omund. So sa i minsto Omund Horpestad daa han bad lensmannen, Mons Øksnavad, stemna Johans til Haugs-tinget ²⁷/₁₁ 1650.
He [Johans] had that autumn been in a quarrel with Omund Horpestad about a milling place, and had then threatened with usingwitchcraft on Omund. This is at least what Omund Horpestad told when he asked the sheriff, Mons Øksnavad, to subpoena Johans to the Haugating at 27th November 1650.
