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Challenger and I ran Summerlee along, one at each of his elbows, while Lord John covered our retreat, firing again and again as savage heads snarled at us out of the bushes.
Small planes run between Alor and Langkawi. BUS: Express busses leave the bus terminal on the corner of Jl. Langgar and Jl. Stesyen for K. Kedah, […]
2013 April 15, Mary Ann Sternberg, Along the River Road: Past and Present on Louisiana's Historic Byway, LSU Press, →ISBN, page 62:
The first steam ferry or tug, the Little Minnie, ran the river in the 1870s. When vehicles were to cross, a barge was affixed to the Minnie to carry them.
1979, United States. Forest Service. Rocky Mountain Region, Piedra River: Final Environmental Impact Statement & Wild & Scenic River Study, page 74:
To put it frankly, if you people had to hire others to run the river and survey it for you, if, in short, you can't even run it yourself, why do think you can decide who is and who is not competent? River running, as has been[…]
2019 December 29, Chad Finn, “24 thoughts on the Patriots’ loss to the Dolphins”, in Boston Globe:
Then, on their second possession, Isaiah Ford ran for 11 yards after abandoning a flea flicker. [...] The Patriots ran the ball just 27 times despite averaging 5 yards per carry.
(Should we delete(+) this sense?)(transitive) To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.
1717 [a. 18 CE], Ovid, translated by Joseph Addison, Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books. Translated by the most eminent hands. Adorn'd with sculptures, Book the Third, The Story of Narcissus, page 92:
As Wax dissolves, as Ice begins to run,
1729, John Woodward, An Attempt Towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England, Tome I, page 223:
The Sussex ores run pretty freely in the Fire for Iron-Ores; otherwise they would hardly be worth working.
1972 December 29, Richard Schickel, “Masterpieces underrated and overlooked”, in Life, volume 73, number 25, page 22:
A friend of mine who runs an intellectual magazine was grousing about his movie critic, complaining that though the fellow had liked The Godfather (page 58), he had neglected to label it clearly as a masterpiece.
1728, Jonathan Swift, “An answer to a paper, called A memorial of the poor inhabitants, tradesmen, and labourers of the kingdom of Ireland”, in The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, published 1757, page 175:
[...]whereas in the business of laying heavy impositions two and two never made more than one ; which happens by lessening the import, and the strong temptation of running such goods as paid high duties
They ran twenty blood tests on me and they still don't know what's wrong.
Our coach had us running plays for the whole practice.
I will run the sample.
Don't run that software unless you have permission.
My computer is too old to run the new OS.
To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
to run from one subject to another
1697, Joseph Addison, “An essay on the Georgics”, in The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Aeneis, by John Dryden:
Virgil was so well acquainted with this Secret, that to set off his first Georgic, he has run into a set of Precepts, which are almost foreign to his Subject,
(transitive) To cause stitched clothing to unravel.
1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
He took off the nylons & had runned one. He said "now I really look like a street whore!"
To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
1692, Robert South, “Discourse I. The creation of man in God’s image”, in Discourses on Various Subjects and Occasions, published 1827, page 1:
To run the world back to its first original and infancy, and, as it were, to view nature in its cradle,
1695, Jeremy Collier, “A Thought”, in Miscellanies upon Moral Subjects by Jeremy Collier, page 88:
Methinks, if it might be, I would gladly understand the Formation of a Soul, run it up to its Punctum Saliens, and see it beat the first conscious Pulse.
To cause to enter; to thrust.
to run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into one's foot
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;[…].
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To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation:
[...]besides all this, a talkative person must needs be impertinent, and speak many idle words, and so render himself burdensome and odious to Company, and may perchance run himself upon great Inconveniences, by blabbing out his own or other’s Secrets;
1706, John Locke, Of the Conduct of the Understanding, Section 24. Partiality:
[...]and others, accustomed to retired speculations, run natural philosophy into metaphysical notions and the abstract generalities of logic ;
To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
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.
Every three or four hands he would run the table.
To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
1722 [1647], Robert Sanderson, translated by Thomas Lewis, A Preservative Against Schism and Rebellion, in the Most Trying Times, volume 1, translation of De juramenti promissorii obligatione, page 355:
Which Sovereignty, with us, ſo undoubtedly reſideth in the Perſon of the King, that his ordinary Style runneth — Our Sovereign Lord the King:[…]
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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(archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
c.1685, William Temple, Upon the Gardens of Epicurus, published 1908, page 27:
[...]great captains, and even consular men, who first brought them over, took pride in giving them their own names (by which they run a great while in Rome)
1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes,, London: Adam Islip, →OCLC:
Neither was he ignorant what report ran of himselfe.
To have growth or development.
Boys and girls run up rapidly.
1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land., London: J H for H Mortlock, and J Robinson, →OCLC:
or the Richness of the Ground cause them [turnips] to run too much to Leaves
To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
1708, Jonathan Swift, “The Sentiments of a Church-of-England Man with respect to Religion and Government”, in The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, published 1757, page 235:
It hath been observed, that the temperate climates usually run into moderate governments, and the extremes into despotic power.
To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
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.
I just got back from my morning run.
2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport:
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.
Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily on foot); dash or errand, trip.
1759, N. Tindal, The Continuation of Mr Rapin's History of England, volume 21 (continuation volume 9), page 92:
and on the 18th of January this squadron put to sea. The first place of rendezvous was the boy of port St. Julian, upon the coast of Patagonia, and all accidents were provided against with admirable foresight. Their run to port St. Julian was dangerous
1987 April 25, Kim Westheimer, “A Black Gay Fireman's Story”, in Gay Community News, page 1:
Jackson said the white firefighters attempted to make him and other Black firefighters miss runs by not waking them up along with everyone else.
This morning's run of the SHIPS statistical model gave Hurricane Priscilla a 74% chance of gaining at least 30 knots of intensity in 24 hours, reconfirmed by the HMON and GFS dynamical models.
1715 June 5 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 45. Wednesday, May 25. ”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq;, volume IV, London: Jacob Tonson,, published 1721, →OCLC:
It is impossible for detached papers[...] to have a general run, or long continuance, if they are not diversified[...].
Continuous or sequential
A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
And I'll tell ya, things aren't quite the same / When I'm rushing on my run.
1975, Lloyd Y. Young, Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, Brian S. Katcher, Applied Therapeutics for Clinical Pharmacists:
Frank Fixwell, a 25 year-old male, has been on a heroin "run" (daily use) for the past two years.
1977, Richard P. Rettig, Manual J. Torres, Gerald R. Garrett, Manny: a criminal-addict's story, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) →ISBN
I was hooked on dope, and hooked bad, during this whole period, but I was also hooked behind robbery. When you're on a heroin run, you stay loaded so long as you can score.
2001, Robin J. Harman, Handbook of Pharmacy Health Education, Pharmaceutical Press, →ISBN, page 172:
This can develop quite quickly (over a matter of hours) during a cocaine run or when cocaine use becomes a daily habit.
2010, Robert DuPont, The Selfish Brain: Learning from Addiction, Hazelden Publishing, →ISBN, page 158:
DA depletion leads to the crash that characteristically ends a cocaine run.
1832, Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court, page 21:
Well, when you compare the cone type with the cross roller bit, you get a longer run, there is less tendency of the bit to go flat while running in various formations. It cleans itself better.
1975, Joni Mitchell (lyrics and music), “The Boho Dance”, in The Hissing of Summer Lawns:
A camera pans the cocktail hour / Behind a blind of potted palms / And finds a lady in a Paris dress / With runs in her nylons
(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.
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1921, L. W. Ferris, H. W. Redfield, W. R. North, “The Volatile Acids and the Volatile Oxidizable Substances of Cream and Experimental Butter”, in Journal of Dairy Science, volume 4, page 522:
Samples of the regular run butter were sealed in 1 pound tins and sent to Washington, where the butter was scored and examined.
1735, Thomas Frankz, A tour through France, Flanders, and Germany: in a letter to Robert Savil, page 18:
[...] the Sides are generally made of Holland's Tiles, or Plates of run Iron, ornamented variously as Fancy dictates, [...]
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:
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.
c.1839, (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:
1889, Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell, Fishing: Salmon and Trout, fifth edition, page 185:
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.
1986, Arthur Oglesby, Fly fishing for salmon and sea trout, page 15:
It may be very much a metallic appearance as opposed to the silver freshness of a recently run salmon.
2005, Rod Sutterby, Malcolm Greenhalgh, Atlantic Salmon: An Illustrated Natural History, page 86:
Thus, on almost any day of the year, a fresh-run salmon may be caught legally somewhere in the British Isles.
Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Han [Johan] hadde den hausten lege i trætta med Omund Horpestad um ein kvernastad, og daa hadde han truga med at han skulde taka run paa Omund. So sa i minsto Omund Horpestad daa han bad lensmannen, Mons Øksnavad, stemna Johans til Haugs-tinget ²⁷/₁₁ 1650.
He had that autumn been in a quarrel with Omund Horpestad about a milling place, and had then threatened with using witchcraft on Omund. This is at least what Omund Horpestad told when he asked the sheriff, Mons Øksnavad, to subpoena Johans to the Haugating at 27th November 1650.