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English
Pronunciation
Verb
running
- present participle and gerund of run
Adjective
running (not comparable)
- Moving or advancing at a run.
- Of a horse, having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
- Present, current.
running month
- Flowing; easy; cursive.
running handwriting
- Continuous; ongoing; keeping along step by step.
a running commentary, a running explanation
1778, John Hamilton Moore, A New and Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels:Thus a constant running fire was kept up, and no interval allowed for the enemy to stand to their guns in safety […]
1826, Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers:What are art and science if not a running commentary on Nature?
- Having a continuous design or pattern.
- running bond; running ornament
- Consecutive (much more commonly expressed by an adverb; see below).
- He won the title for three running years.
- (botany) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.
a running vine
- (medicine) Discharging pus.
a running sore
- (medicine, of a nose) Discharging snot or mucus.
- Synonym: runny
a running nose
Derived terms
Translations
continuous, keeping along step by step
botany: extending by slender stem
discharging snot or mucus
Adverb
running (not comparable)
- (informal) Consecutively; in a row.
Mom's strawberry jam won the blue ribbon at the Holland County Fair three years running.
Translations
Noun
running (countable and uncountable, plural runnings)
- The action of the verb to run.
His running of the business leaves something to be desired.
2022 January 12, “Network News: Trading of Go-Ahead Group shares halted”, in RAIL, number 948, page 7:The train operating company owning group warned in early December that it was unable to publish its results for the year to July 3 2021, following an investigation into the running of Southeastern, which was stripped of its franchise in October [...].
- The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason.
Running is good exercise.
- That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.
the first running of a still
- The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
- (colloquial) The act of running errands.
I'm gonna go out and do my running.
Derived terms
Translations
the action of the verb to run
- American Sign Language: S@SideChesthigh-PalmAcross-S@SideTrunkhigh-PalmAcross CirclesMidline-CirclesMidline
- Arabic: رَكْض (ar) m (rakḍ)
- Belarusian: бег m (bjeh), бе́ганне n (bjéhannje)
- Bulgarian: бяг (bg) m (bjag), бя́гане (bg) n (bjágane)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 跑 (zh) (pǎo)
- Czech: běh (cs) m
- Dutch: lopen (nl) n
- Finnish: juoksu (fi), juokseminen (fi)
- French: course (fr) f, course à pied (fr) f
- German: Rennen (de) n, Laufen (de) n
- Hungarian: futás (hu)
- Japanese: 走る (ja) (はしる, hashiru), 走り (ja) (はしり, hashiri), ランニング (ja) (ranningu)
- Korean: 달리기 (ko) (dalligi)
- Macedonian: трчање n (trčanje)
- Malayalam: ഓട്ടം (ml) (ōṭṭaṁ)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: løping (no) m or f
- Old English: ryne m
- Polish: bieg (pl) m, bieganie (pl) n
- Portuguese: correr (pt)
- Russian: бег (ru) m (beg), беготня́ (ru) f (begotnjá) (scurry, running about), бе́гание (ru) n (béganije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: трчање n
- Roman: trčanje (sh) n
- Slovak: beh m, behanie n
- Slovene: tek (sl) m
- Spanish: administración (es) f, control (es) m, dirección (es) f, manejo (es) m, organización (es) f,
- Swedish: löpning (sv) c
- Telugu: పరుగెత్తుట (te) (parugettuṭa)
- Ukrainian: біг (uk) m (bih), бі́гання (uk) n (bíhannja)
- Volapük: vifagol (vo), gol vifik
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quantity of liquid which flows in a certain time
Preposition
running
- (colloquial) Approaching; about; roughly. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Derived terms
References
Spanish
Noun
running m (uncountable)
- running, jogging