Set vs Run - What's the difference?
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To put (something) down, to rest.
To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
* Bible, Genesis iv. 15
To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxviii. 1
* Bible, Matthew x. 35
* Coleridge
(dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
To determine or settle.
To adjust.
To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
To arrange with dishes and cutlery.
To introduce or describe.
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To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
To prepare (a stage or film set).
To fit (someone) up in a situation.
To arrange (type).
To devise and assign (work) to.
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, title= (volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
To solidify.
To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
(bridge) To defeat a contract.
To begin to move; to go forth.
* c. 1599 , (William Shakespeare),
(of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
* 1906 , Canada. Dept. of Agriculture. Fruit Branch, Fruit crop report
(intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
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, title= To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
(hunting, ambitransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
(obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
* Hammond
(ambitransitive) To fit music to words.
* Dryden
(ambitransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
* Old proverb
To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
To place or fix in a setting.
* Dryden
To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
To extend and bring into position; to spread.
To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
(masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
(obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
* Shakespeare
To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
* Dryden
* Wordsworth
(obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at .
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
(Scotland) To suit; to become.
A punch for setting nails in wood.
A device for receiving broadcast radio waves; a radio or television.
A sett; a hole made and lived in by a badger.
(horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
(obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
(engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
(piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
(printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
A young oyster when first attached.
Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
A series of, a group of.
Fixed in position.
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Ready, prepared.
Intent, determined (to do something).
Prearranged.
Fixed in one’s opinion.
(of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
A rudimentary fruit.
The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
* Tennyson
* Shakespeare
(literally, and, figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
A matching collection of similar things.
A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
An object made up of several parts.
(set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
Set theory.
A group of people, usually meeting socially.
The scenery for a film or play.
(dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
(exercise) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
* 1974 , Charles Gaines & George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding , page 22.
(tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
(volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
(volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
(music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
(music) A drum kit, a drum set.
(UK, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
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To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
* 2008 , Patricia Murphy, ?Robert McCormick, Knowledge and Practice: Representations and Identities
*:In setted' classes, students are brought together because they are believed to be of similar 'ability'. Yet, '''setted lessons are often conducted as though students are not only similar, but ''identical —in terms of ability, preferred learning style and pace of working.
* 2002 , Jo Boaler, Experiencing School Mathematics: Traditional and Reform Approaches and Their Impact on Student Learning
*:At Amber Hill, setting was a high-profile concept, and the students were frequently reminded of the set to which they belonged.
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
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#*: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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#*: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:
As a numeral set
is seven.As a proper noun run is
.set
English
Etymology 1
* From (etyl) . * From (etyl) .Verb
- I have set my heart on running the marathon.
- The Lord set a mark upon Cain.
- The Lord thy God will set thee on high.
- I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother.
- Every incident sets him thinking.
- to set a coach in the mud
- An incident which happened about this time will set the characters of these two lads more fairly before the discerning reader than is in the power of the longest dissertation.
- This crossword was set by Araucaria.
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- to set milk for cheese
- The king is set from London, and the scene is now transported, gentles, to Southampton
- In the Annapolis Valley, in spite of an irregular bloom, the fruit has set well and has, as yet, been little affected by scab.
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- The dog sets the bird.
- Your dog sets well.
- If he sets industriously and sincerely to perform the commands of Christ, he can have no ground of doubting but it shall prove successful to him.
- Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
- (Shakespeare)
- to set pear trees in an orchard
- Sow dry, and set wet.
- (Francis Bacon)
- The current sets''' to the north; the tide '''sets to the windward.
- to set a precious stone in a border of metal
- to set glass in a sash
- And him too rich a jewel to be set / In vulgar metal for a vulgar use.
- to set (that is, to hone) a razor
- to set a saw
- to set the sails of a ship
- to set a psalm
- (Fielding)
- to set a broken bone
- I have set my life upon a cast, / And I will stand the hazard of the die.
- High on their heads, with jewels richly set , / Each lady wore a radiant coronet.
- pastoral dales thin set with modern farms
- Be you contented, wearing now the garland, / To have a son set your decrees at naught.
- I do not set my life at a pin's fee.
- to set''' a good example; to '''set lessons to be learned
- It sets him ill.
Derived terms
* reset * set about * set against * set ahead * set apart * set-aside * set a spell * set back * set by * set down * set foot * set forth * set forward * set in * set in motion * set in stone * set off * set on * set on a pedestal * set on fire * set one’s heart on * set out * set straight * set the cat among the pigeons * set the scene * set the table * set to * set upNoun
(wikipedia set) (en noun)- nail set
- television set
- We will in France, by God's grace, play a set / Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard.
- That was but civil war, an equal set .
- the set of a spring
Adjective
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Synonyms
* determined, intent * (prearranged) dictated, prearranged, predetermined, prescribed, specified * (sense, fixed in one's opinion) fixed, rigidDerived terms
* heavyset, heavy-set * nail set * mindset * moonset * offset * outset * photoset * preset * quickset * set-aside * saw set * set back * setback * set chisel * set for life * sethood * set-in * setlist * setter * set-to * sunset * television set * thickset * trendsetter * typeset * unset * upsetEtymology 2
From (etyl) set, sete, . See (l).Noun
(en noun)- the set of day
- The weary sun hath made a golden set .
- Here and there, amongst individuals alive to the particular evils of the age, and watching the very set of the current, there may have been even a more systematic counteraction applied to the mischief. — Thomas De Quincey.
- a set of tables
- a set of tools
- a set of steps
- the country set
- This is the fourth set of benchpresses.
- He plays the set on Saturdays.
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Synonyms
* (close of the day) dusk, eve, evening, sundown, sunset * (general movement) direction, drift, heading, motion, movement, path, tendency, trend * (matching collection of similar things) suite * set theory * club, coterie * (scenery) scenery * (performance of several musical pieces) gig, session * (drum kit) drums, drum kit, drum set * (three of a kind) three of a kindHypernyms
* (set theory) multiset, bagDerived terms
* box set * bump set * closed set * country set * crystal set * drop set * empty set * filmset * * jet set * Mandelbrot set * open set * set of pipes * set piece * set point * set theory * subset * twinset * instruction setVerb
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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
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* (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.