Running

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act or an instance of running.
  • n. The power or ability to run.
  • n. Sports The exercise or sport of someone who runs.
  • adj. Ongoing over a period of time: a running conversation; a running joke among us.
  • adj. Set in continuous or unbroken lines: running text.
  • adj. Printed at the top or bottom of every page or every other page: a running title; a running footer.
  • ad. In a consecutive way: four years running.
  • idiom. in the running Entered as a contender in a competition.
  • idiom. in the running Having the possibility of winning or placing well in a competition.
  • idiom. out of the running Not entered as a contender in a competition.
  • idiom. out of the running Having no possibility of winning or placing well in a competition.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. That which runs or run.
  • ad. consecutively; in a row
  • n. The action of the verb to run.
  • n. The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason
  • v. Present participle of run.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Moving or advancing by running.
  • adj. Having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
  • adj. trained and kept for running races.
  • adj. Successive; one following the other without break or intervention; -- said of periods of time.
  • adj. Flowing; easy; cursive.
  • adj. Continuous; keeping along step by step.
  • adj. Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.
  • adj. Discharging pus.
  • n. The act of one who, or of that which runs.
  • n. That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.
  • n. The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of one who or that which runs.
  • n. Specifically, the act of one who risks or evades dangers or legal restrictions, as in running a blockade or smuggling.
  • n. The action of a whale after being struck by the harpoon, when it swims but does not sound.
  • n. In racing, etc., power, ability, or strength to run; hence, staying power.
  • n. The ranging of any animals, particularly in connection with the rut, or other actions of the breeding season: also used attributively: as, the running time of salmon or deer.
  • n. In organ-building, a leakage of the air in a wind-chest into a channel so that a pipe is sounded when its digital is depressed, although its stop is not drawn; also, the sound of a pipe thus sounded. Also called running of the wind.
  • n. That which runs or flows; the quantity run: as, the first running of a still, or of cider at the mill.
  • n. Course, direction, or manner of flowing or moving.
  • That runs; suited for running, racing, etc. See run, n., 1 .
  • Specifically, in zoology, cursorial; gressorial; ambulatory; not salient or saltatory.
  • Capable of moving quickly; movable; mobilized.
  • Done, made, taken, etc., in passing, or while hastening along; hence, cursory; hasty; speedy.
  • Cursive, as manuscript: as, running hand (see below).
  • Proceeding in close succession; without intermission: used in a semi-adverbial sense after nouns denoting periods of time: as, I had the same dream three nights running.
  • Continuous; unintermittent; persistent.
  • In botany, repent or creeping by runners, as the strawberry. See runner, 2.
  • A horizontal board along the ridge of a box freight-car or the side of an oil-car, to form a passage for the trainmen.
  • Approaching; going on.
  • In machinery, moving; not held tightly; not fixed. A running fit is one where two surfaces in contact fit so loosely that one can move freely past the other.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. executed or initiated by running
  • n. the act of administering or being in charge of something
  • n. the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace
  • n. the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track
  • adj. of advancing the ball by running
  • adj. (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing
  • adj. measured lengthwise
  • n. the state of being in operation
  • n. (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team
  • adj. (of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream
  • adj. continually repeated over a period of time
  • Equivalent
    functioning    lengthwise    lengthways    spouting    squirting    pouring    jetting    spurting    gushing    continual   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
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    Cross Reference
    flowing    hasty    rapid    creeping    suppurative    constant    linear    running fire    running title    running bowsprit   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    successive    flowing    easy    cursive    continuous    current    cursorial   
    Verb Stem
    run   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    bunning    cunning    dunning    gunning    outrunning    rerunning    shunning    stunning    sunning   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    sans    written    shoe    śakoontalá    back    shoes    exercise    bitte    horses    their