Run vs Stand - What's the difference?
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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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, title= #(lb) To be a candidate in an election.
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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.
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*: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.
* {{quote-news
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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
* {{quote-news
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, author=Piers Newbery
, title=Wimbledon 2011: Sabine Lisicki beats Marion Bartoli
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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:
(lb) To or be positioned physically.
#(lb) To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
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, passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,
#(lb) To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.
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# To remain motionless.
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#*Bible, (w) ii, 9
#*:The star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
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#*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
#(lb) To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.
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#*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect.
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#*:He seized the gun which always stood in a corner of his bedroom.
#(lb) To place in an upright or standing position.
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#(lb) To occupy or hold a place; to be situated or located.
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#(lb) To measure when erect on the feet.
#* (1809-1892)
#*:Six feet two, as I think, he stands .
(lb) To or be positioned mentally.
# To be positioned to gain or lose.
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# To tolerate.
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#*, chapter=7
, title= #(lb) To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
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#*:readers by whose judgment I would stand or fall
#(lb) To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
#*Bible, (w) viii. 11
#*:The king granted the Jewsto gather themselves together, and to stand for their life.
#*(Robert South) (1634–1716)
#*:the standing pattern of their imitation
# To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist.
#*Bible, (w) ix. 10
#*:sacrificeswhich stood only in meats and drinks
#*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
#*:Accomplish what your signs foreshow; / I stand resigned, and am prepared to go.
#*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
#*:Thou seest how it stands with me, and that I may not tarry.
(lb) To or be positioned socially.
# To act as an umpire.
#(lb) To undergo; withstand; hold up.
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#*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
#*:Love stood the siege.
#*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
#*:Bid him disband his legions,/ And stand the judgment of a Roman senate.
#*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
#*:He stood the furious foe.
# To seek election.
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#*(Izaak Walton) (c.1594-1683)
#*:He stood to be elected one of the proctors of the university.
#(lb) To be valid.
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#(lb) To oppose, usually as a team, in competition.
#*1957 , (Matt Christopher),
#*:"Kim, Jack, and I will stand you guys," Jimmie Burdette said. ¶ "We'll smear you!" laughed Ron.
#* R. J. Childerhose,
#*:The game stopped while sides were sorted out. Andy did the sorting. "Okay," he said. "Jimmy is coming out. He and Gaston and Ike and me will stand you guys."
#*1978 , (Louis Sachar),
#*:"Hey, Louis," Dameon shouted. "Do you want to play kickball?" ¶ ""All right," said Louis. "Ron and I will both play."¶ "Ron and I will stand everybody!" Louis announced.
#To cover the expense of; to pay for.
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#(lb) To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation.
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#(lb) To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
#*(Philip Massinger) (1583-1640)
#*:Doubt me not; by heaven, I will do nothing / But what may stand with honour.
#(lb) To appear in court.
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Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).
*1630 , John Smith, True Travels , in Kupperman 1988, p.40:
*:To repaire his defects, hee stood for the coast of Calabria, but hearing there was six or seven Galleyes at Mesina hee departed thence for Malta.
(lb) To remain without ruin or injury.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:My mind on its own centre stands unmoved.
*(Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
*:The ruin'd wall / Stands when its wind-worn battlements are gone.
(lb) To stop asking for more cards.
The act of standing.
*Spectator
*:I took my stand upon an eminenceto look into their several ladings.
A defensive position or effort. (rfex)
A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
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A period of performance in a given location or venue.
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A device to hold something upright or aloft.
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*:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand , and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
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A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
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(lb) A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and structure, and growing on a site of sufficiently uniform quality, to be a distinguishable unit.
A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
*1625 , (Francis Bacon), “Of Truth”, Essays
*:One of the later school of the Grecians, examineth the matter, and is at a stand , to think what should be in it, that men should love lies; where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie’s sake.
*1819 , (Lord Byron), , I.168:
*:Antonia's patience now was at a stand — / "Come, come, 't is no time now for fooling there," / She whispered
A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:I have found you out a stand most fit, / Where you may have such vantage on the duke, / He shall not pass you.
The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.
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(lb) grandstand (often in plural)
*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=November 11, author=Rory Houston, work=RTE Sport
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, title= A single set, as of arms.
*1927 , Herbert Asbury, The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld , Paragon House (1990), ISBN 1-55778-348-9, p.170:
*:The police and troops captured eleven thousand stand of arms, including muskets and pistols, together with several thousand bludgeons and other weapons.
(lb) Rank; post; station; standing.
*(Samuel Daniel) (1562-1619)
*:Father, since your fortune did attain / So high a stand , I mean not to descend.
(lb) A state of perplexity or embarrassment.
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A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another kind of tree.
(lb) A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch.
(Webster 1913)
As a proper noun run
is .As a noun stand is
stall, booth, bench, stand (place to sell items or make deals).run
English
Verb
What a waste, passage=India is run by gerontocrats and epigones: grey hairs and groomed heirs.}}
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.”}}
John Mortimer(1656?-1736)
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 .
citation, page= , passage=Krohn-Dehli took advantage of a lucky bounce of the ball after a battling run on the left flank by Simon Poulsen, dummied two defenders and shot low through goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg's legs after 24 minutes.}}
- 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.
Statistics
*Anagrams
* (l), (l) 1000 English basic words ----stand
English
Verb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=“[…] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand' that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't ' stand is to have them togs called a livery.
Basketball Sparkplug, Ch.7:
Hockey Fever in Goganne Falls, p.95:
Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Ch.21:
Usage notes
* In older works, standen is found as a past participle of this verb; it is now archaic. * (tolerate) This is almost always found in a negative form such as can’t stand', or ' No-one can stand… In this sense it is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (term) or infinitive . See .Derived terms
* bestand * offstand * a leg to stand on * stand alone/stand-alone * stand aside * stand and deliver * stand back * stand by * stand corrected * stand down * stand easy * stand firm * stand for * stand from under * stand guard * stand off/stand-off * stand on * stand on ceremony * stand out * stand over * stand-in * stand in for * * stand on end * * stand pat * stand still * stand tall * stand to reason * stand watch * stand up/stand-up/standup * understand * upstandNoun
(en noun)Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland, passage=The end of the opening period was relatively quite [sic] as Vassiljev's desperate shot from well outside the penalty area flew into the stand housing the Irish supporters and then Ward's ctoss [sic] was gathered by goalkeeper Pareiko.}}
England v West Indies: Hosts cruise home in Lord's Test, passage=England wrapped up a five-wicket victory in the first Test as a stand of 132 between Alastair Cook and Ian Bell saw off an early West Indies charge.}}