How to pronounce “run”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• To move swiftly.
• (fluids) To flow.
• (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
• (transitive) To control or manage; to be in charge of.
• (intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.
• To make participate in certain kinds of competitions.
• To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
• (intransitive) To be presented in the media.
• (transitive) To print or broadcast in the media.
• (transitive) To smuggle (illegal goods).
• (transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
• To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
• (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
• To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
• (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
• (transitive) To cost an amount of money.
• (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
• (transitive) To cause stitched clothing to unravel.
• To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
• To cause to enter; to thrust.
• To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
• To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
• (transitive) To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
• (transitive, obsolete) To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
• (transitive, obsolete) To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
• 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.
• To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
• (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
• To have growth or development.
• To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
• To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
• To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
• (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
• (video games, rare) To speedrun.
• (sports, especially baseball) To eject from a game or match.
• To press (a bank, etc.) with immediate demands for payment.
• [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.
• Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
• Migration of fish.
• A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
• A literal or figurative path or course for movement relating to:
• Unrestricted use. Only used in have the run of.
• An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
• (Australia, New Zealand) A rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
• State of being current; currency; popularity.
• Something continuous or sequential.
• A flow of liquid; a leak.
• (chiefly eastern North Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)
• A quick pace, faster than a walk.
• (banking) A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
• Any sudden large demand for something.
• Various horizontal dimensions or surfaces
• A standard or unexceptional group or category.
• In sports
• A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
• (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
• (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.
• A pair or set of millstones.
• One’s gait while running; the way one runs.
• [Adjective]
• In a liquid state; melted or molten.
• Cast in a mould.
• Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
• (of a zoology) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.
• Smuggled.

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