Round vs Run - What's the difference?
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(label) Shape.
# Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.
# Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.
# Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves.
# Plump.
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#*:If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round , rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.
Complete, whole, not lacking.
* (1809-1892)
(label) Convenient for ing other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
(label) Pronounced with the lips drawn together.
Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing.
* (Matthew Arnold) (1822-1888)
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
* (Henry Peacham) (1578-c.1644)
Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:the golden round [the crown]
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:in labyrinth of many a round self-rolled
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*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
*1955 , (William Golding), , Faber and Faber 2005, p.50:
*:All at once the sun was through, a round of dulled silver, racing slantwise through the clouds yet always staying in the same place.
A circular or repetitious route.
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A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
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*(Charles Dickens), (Dombey and Son)
*:There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.
A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
*2009 , Patrick Condon, "Boy with cancer, mom return home", Associated Press, printed in Austin American-Statesman , 2009 May 26, page A4:
*:Daniel underwent one round of chemotherapy in February but stopped after that single treatment, citing religious beliefs.
(lb) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Compare round shot and solid shot.
(lb) One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop.
*April 19 2002 , Scott Tobias, AV Club Fightville [http://www.avclub.com/articles/fightville,72589/]
*:And though Fightville, an MMA documentary from the directors of the fine Iraq War doc Gunner Palace, presents it more than fairly, the sight of a makeshift ring getting constructed on a Louisiana rodeo ground does little to shake the label. Nor do the shots of ringside assistants with spray bottles and rags, mopping up the blood between rounds
(lb) A stage in a competition.
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(lb) In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
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(lb) The hindquarters of a bovine.
(lb) A rung, as of a ladder.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:All the rounds like Jacob's ladder rise.
*1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) ,
*:The perpendicular parts of this side ladder, as is usually the case with swinging ones, were of cloth-covered rope, only the rounds were of wood, so that at every step there was a joint.
A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
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A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
* (1666-1735)
*:Women to cards may be compared: we play / A round or two; which used, we throw away.
*(Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)
*:The feast was served; the bowl was crowned; / To the king's pleasure went the mirthful round .
A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
*(John Keble) (1792-1866)
*:the trivial round , the common task
A circular dance.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, / In a light fantastic round .
Rotation, as in office; succession.
:(Holyday)
A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
An assembly; a group; a circle.
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A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
(lb) A vessel filled, as for drinking.
(lb) A round-top.
A round of beef.
Alternative form of around.
* Cowper
* Sir Walter Scott
To shape something into a curve.
* Francis Bacon
* Addison
To become shaped into a curve.
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
To finish; to complete; to fill out.
* Shakespeare
To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.
To turn past a boundary.
To turn and attack someone or something (used with on ).
(baseball) To advance to home plate.
To go round, pass, go past.
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To encircle; to encompass.
* Shakespeare
To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
* Shakespeare
* Tennyson
(obsolete) To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds.
* Milton
(obsolete) To go or turn round; to wheel about.
(intransitive, archaic, or, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak secretly; take counsel.
(transitive, archaic, or, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To address or speak to in a whisper, utter in a whisper.
* Calderwood
(archaic, or, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A whisper; whispering.
(archaic, or, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Discourse; song.
To move swiftly.
#(lb) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot.
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#(label) To go at a fast pace, to move quickly.
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#(lb) To cause to move quickly; to make move lightly.
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# To compete in a race.
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#(lb) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
# To carry a football down the field.
#(lb) To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.
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#(lb) To flee away from a danger or towards help.
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# To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
To flow.
# To move or spread quickly.
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#(lb) Of a liquid, to flow.
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#(lb) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
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#(lb) To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from an object.
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#(lb) To become liquid; to melt.
#*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
#*:as wax dissolves, as ice begins to run
#* (1665-1728)
#*:Sussex iron ores run freely in the fire.
#(lb) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
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#To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
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#*(Henry Felton) (1679-1740)
#*:The fairest diamonds are rough till they are polished, and the purest gold must be run and washed, and sifted in the ore.
# To go through without stopping, usually illegally.
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To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
To carry out an activity.
#(lb) To control or manage, be in charge of.
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#(lb) To make run in a race or an election.
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#To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
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#(lb) To be presented in one of the media.
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#(lb) To print or broadcast in the media.
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#(lb) To transport someone or something.
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#(lb) To smuggle illegal goods.
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#*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
#*:Heavy impositionsare a strong temptation of running goods.
# To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
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(lb) To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
#(lb) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
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#(lb) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
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#(lb) To make something extend in space.
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#(lb) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
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#(lb) To make a machine operate.
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(lb) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure or program.
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To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
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*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
*:Virgil, in his first Georgic, has run into a set of precepts foreign to his subject.
(lb) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
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*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
*:Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast, to rend my heart with grief and run distracted?
*1968 , (Paul Simon), The Boxer (song)
*:I was no more than a boy / In the company of strangers / In the quiet of the railway station / Running scared.
(lb) To cost a large amount of money.
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(lb) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
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To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
*(Robert South) (1634–1716)
*:to run the world back to its first original
*(Arthur Collier) (1680-1732)
*:I would gladly understand the formation of a soul, and run it up to its punctum saliens .
To cause to enter; to thrust.
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*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:You run your head into the lion's mouth.
*(Charles Dickens) (1812-1870)
*:having run his fingers through his hair
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*:There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;.
To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
*Bible, (w) xxvii. 41
*:They ran the ship aground.
*(John Ray) (1627-1705)
*:A talkative person runs himself upon great inconveniences by blabbing out his own or other's secrets.
*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
*:Others, accustomed to retired speculations, run natural philosophy into metaphysical notions.
To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
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To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
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*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:He runneth two dangers.
To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
* (1609-1674)
*:He would himself be in the Highlands to receive them, and run his fortune with them.
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.
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To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
* (1587-1663)
*:The king's ordinary style runneth , "Our sovereign lord the king."
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, chapter=5, title= (lb) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
* (1628–1699)
*:Men gave them their own names, by which they run a great while in Rome.
*(Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)
*:Neither was he ignorant what report ran of himself.
To have growth or development.
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*:if the richness of the ground cause turnips to run to leaves
To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
*:Temperate climates run into moderate governments.
To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
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*Sir (Josiah Child) (1630-1699)
*:Customs run' only upon our goods imported or exported, and that but once for all; whereas interest ' runs as well upon our ships as goods, and must be yearly paid.
Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
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Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
* 1759 , N. Tindal, The Continuation of Mr Rapin's History of England , volume 21 (continuation volume 9), page 92:
A pleasure trip.
* Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit
Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
* 2006 , Tsirk Susej, The Demonic Bible (ISBN 1411690737), page 41:
Migration (of fish).
A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
(skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
A (regular) trip or route.
The route taken while running or skiing.
The distance sailed by a ship.
* 1977 , Star Wars (film)
A voyage.
An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
(Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
State of being current; currency; popularity.
* Addison
A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
* Burke
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# A series of tries in a game that were successful.
(card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
(music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
A trial of an experiment.
A flow of liquid; a leak.
(US, dialect) A small creek or part thereof.
The amount of something made.
A production quantity in a factory.
The length of a showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
* Macaulay
A quick pace, faster than a walk.
# (of horses) A fast gallop.
A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
Any sudden large demand for something.
The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
The horizontal length of a set of stairs
A standard or unexceptional group or category.
(baseball) A score (point scored) by a runner making it around all the bases and over home plate.
(cricket) A point scored.
(American football) A gain of a (specified) distance; a running play.
* 2003 , Jack Seibold, Spartan Sports Encyclopedia , page 592:
(rfc-sense) Unrestricted use of an area.
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.
(construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
(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.
(video games) A playthrough.
(slang)
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In a liquid state; melted or molten.
* 1921 , L. W. Ferris, H. W. Redfield and W. R. North, The Volatile Acids and the Volatile Oxidizable Substances of Cream and Experimental Butter'', in the ''Journal of Dairy Science , volume 4 (1921), page 522:
Cast in a mould.
* 1735 , Thomas Frankz, A tour through France, Flanders, and Germany: in a letter to Robert Savil , page 18:
* 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:
* (Richard of Raindale, The Plan of my House vindicated'', quoted by) T. T. B. in the ''Dwelling of Richard of Raindale, King of the Moors'', published in ''The Mirror , number 966, 7 September 1839, page 153:
Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
(of a, fish) Travelled]], migrated; having made a migration or a spawning [[#Noun, run.
* 1889 , Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell, Fishing: Salmon and Trout , fifth edition, page 185:
* 1986 , Arthur Oglesby, Fly fishing for salmon and sea trout , page 15:
* 2005 , Rod Sutterby, Malcolm Greenhalgh, Atlantic Salmon: An Illustrated Natural History , page 86:
In archaic terms the difference between round and run
is that round is a vessel filled, as for drinking while run is to be popularly known; to be generally received.In nautical terms the difference between round and run
is that round is a round-top while run is the stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.In transitive terms the difference between round and run
is that round is to go round, pass, go past while run is to cost a large amount of money.In intransitive terms the difference between round and run
is that round is to turn and attack someone or something (used with on) while run is of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.As a preposition round
is alternative form of around.As an adverb round
is alternative form of lang=en.round
English
(wikipedia round)Etymology 1
From (etyl) ront, runt ( > French rond), representing an earlier , from (etyl) rotundus ( > Italian rotondo, Provençal redon, Spanish redondo etc.). The noun developed partly from the adjective and partly from the corresponding (etyl) noun rond. Compare rotund and rotunda.Adjective
(en-adj)- Round was their pace at first, but slackened soon.
- the round assertion
- Sir Toby, I must be round with you.
- In his satires Horace is quick, round , and pleasant.
- Round dealing is the honour of man's nature.
Synonyms
* (circular) circular, cylindrical, discoid * (spherical) spherical * (of corners that lack sharp angles) rounded * (plump) plump, rotund * (not lacking) complete, entire, whole * (of a number) rounded * (pronounced with the mouth open) roundedDerived terms
* round angleDerived terms
{{der3, roundabout , round dozen , round-table , round the clock , round trip , rounded vowel}}Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round . But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
Synonyms
* (song) canon * (hindquarters of a bovine) rumpAntonyms
* (rounded inside edge) filletDerived terms
* round of applausePreposition
(English prepositions)- I look round the room quickly to make sure it's neat.
- The serpent Error twines round human hearts.
Derived terms
* go round * look roundAdverb
(-)- The invitations were sent round accordingly.
Verb
- The carpenter rounded the edges of the table.
- Worms with many feet, which round themselves into balls, are bred chiefly under logs of timber.
- The figures on our modern medals are raised and rounded to a very great perfection.
- The girl's figure, he perceived, was admirably proportioned; she was evidently at the period when the angles of childhood were rounding into the promising curves of adolescence.
- She rounded out her education with only a single mathematics class.
- We are such stuff / As dreams are made on, and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep.
- Ninety-five rounds up to one hundred.
- Helen watched him until he rounded the corner.
- As a group of policemen went past him, one of them rounded on him, grabbing him by the arm.
- And the runners round the bases on the double by Jones.
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- The inclusive verge / Of golden metal that must round my brow.
- The queen your mother rounds apace.
- So rounds he to a separate mind, / From whence clear memory may begin.
- They nightly rounding walk.
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Derived terms
* round off * round out * round up * round downSee also
* 'roundEtymology 2
From (etyl) rounen, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(en verb)- (Shakespeare)
- (Holland)
- The Bishop of Glasgow rounding' in his ear, "Ye are not a wise man," he ' rounded likewise to the bishop, and said, "Wherefore brought ye me here?"
Etymology 3
From (etyl) roun, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)run
English
Verb
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A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running : “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”}}
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Synonyms
* go * pass * lead * extend * hunt * hunt down * track down * travel * speed * hurryDerived terms
* run across * run after * run along * run around * run away * run by * run down * run in * run into * run off * run on * run out * run over * run through * run to * run up * run up against * also-ran * hit-and-run * overrun * runaround * runaway * run-down * run-in * runner * runner-up * runny * run-off * run-of-the-mill, run of the mill * runtime * run-up * runway * front runner * run for the hills * run rate * run time * hold with the hare and run with the hounds * hit the ground running * in the running * off and running * one can run but one can't hide * out of the running * make someone's blood run cold * run a bath * run a fever * run aground * run amok, run amuck * run an errand * run a risk * run a temperature * run circles around * run for the roses * run hot * run hot and cold * run high * run in the family * run low * run out of steam * run rampant * run scared * run somebody of their feet * run somebody ragged * run the gamut * run the gauntlet * run into the ground * run the show * up and runningNoun
(en noun)- I just got back from my morning run .
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- I need to make a run to the store.
- Let's go for a run in the car.
- And I think of giving her a run in London for a change.
- During his run from the police, he claimed to have a metaphysical experience which can only be described as “having passed through an abyss.”
- The bus on the Cherry Street run is always crowded.
- Which run did you do today?
- a good run'''; a '''run of fifty miles
- You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon? It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.
- a run to China
- He set up a rabbit run .
- It is impossible for detached papers to have a general run , or long continuance, if not diversified with humour.
- I’m having a run of bad luck.
- He went to Las Vegas and spent all his money over a three-day run .
- They who made their arrangements in the first run of misadventure put a seal on their calamities.
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- The data got lost, so I'll have to perform another run of the experiment.
- The constant run of water from the faucet annoys me.
- a run of must in wine-making
- the first run of sap in a maple orchard
- The military campaign near that creek was known as "The battle of Bull Run ".
- The book’s initial press run will be 5,000 copies.
- Yesterday we did a run of 12,000 units.
- The run of the show lasted two weeks, and we sold out every night.
- It is the last week of our French cinema run .
- A canting, mawkish play had an immense run .
- He broke into a run .
- Financial insecurity led to a run on the banks, as customers feared for the security of their savings.
- There was a run on Christmas presents.
- He stood out from the usual run of applicants.
- one of the greatest runs of all time.
- Aaron Roberts added an insurance touchdown on a one-yard run .
- He can have the run of the house.
- I have a run in my stocking.
- This was my first successful run without losing any health.
- And I'll tell ya, things aren't quite the same / When I'm rushing on my run .
Synonyms
* (horizontal part of a step) tread * (unravelling) ladder (British) * (computing) execute, start * See alsoAntonyms
* (horizontal part of a step) rise, riser * (horizontal distance of a set of stairs) riseDerived terms
{{der3 , have the run of , take a run at , cannonball run , chicken run , dry run , hacking run , home run , rat run , ski run , a run for one's money , in the long run , in the short run , on the run , make a run for it , the run of , the runs }}See also
* (computer science) trajectoryAdjective
(-)- Put some run butter on the vegetables.
- Samples of the regular run butter were sealed in 1 pound tins and sent to Washington, where the butter was scored and examined.
- Vast quantities are cast in sand moulds, with that kind of run steel which is so largely used in the production of common table-knives and forks.
- For making tea I have a kettle,
- Besides a pan made of run metal;
- An old arm-chair, in which I sit well —
- The back is round.
- The temperature of the water is consequently much higher than in either England or Scotland, and many newly run salmon will be found in early spring in the upper waters of Irish rivers where obstructions exist.
- It may be very much a metallic appearance as opposed to the silver freshness of a recently run salmon.
- Thus, on almost any day of the year, a fresh-run salmon may be caught legally somewhere in the British Isles.
