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Rune vs Runs - What's the difference?

rune | runs |

As nouns the difference between rune and runs

is that rune is a letter, or character, belonging to the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons while runs is plural of lang=en.

As a verb runs is

third-person singular of run.

rune

English

(runes)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons.
  • A Finnish poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala.
  • Any verse or song, especially one with mystical or mysterious overtones; an incantation.
  • * 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, page 15:
    • the fiddle sang and sang as ceaselessly as the chanting cicada without, and the frogs intoning their sylvan runes by the waterside.
  • (obsolete) A roun.

    • Derived terms

    * runecraft * runelore * runester * runology, runologist

    Anagrams

    * ----

    runs

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (the runs ) (slang) Diarrhea/diarrhoea

    • Synonyms

    * (diarrh(o)ea ): diarrhea/diarrhoea, the squits (slang), the trots (slang), the craps (slang)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (run)

    • Anagrams

    * urns ----