To move swiftly.
(fluids) To flow.
(nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
(transitive) To control or manage; to be in charge of.
Example: My uncle ran a corner store for forty years.
(intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.
Example: I have decided to run for governor of California.
To make participate in certain kinds of competitions.
To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
Example: to run through life; to run in a circle
(intransitive) To be presented in the media.
Example: The story will run on the 6-o'clock news.
(transitive) To print or broadcast in the media.
Example: run a story; run an ad
(transitive) To smuggle (illegal goods).
Example: They are running guns to the rebels.
(transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
Example: Looks like we're gonna have to run the tomatoes again.
To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
(transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
Example: They ran twenty blood tests on me and they still don't know what's wrong.
To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
Example: to run from one subject to another
(copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
Example: Our food supplies are running low because money is running short.
(transitive) To cost an amount of money.
Example: Buying a new laptop will run you a thousand dollars.
(intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
Example: My stocking is running.
(transitive) To cause stitched clothing to unravel.
Example: 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.
To cause to enter; to thrust.
Example: to run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into one's foot
To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
Example: to run a line
(transitive) To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
Example: to run the risk of losing one's life
(transitive, obsolete) To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
(transitive, obsolete) 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.
Example: Every three or four hands he would run the table.
To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
(archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
To have growth or development.
Example: Boys and girls run up rapidly.
To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
Example: Certain covenants run with the land.
To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
(golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
(video games, rare) To speedrun.
(sports, especially baseball) To eject from a game or match.
Example: Jackson got himself run in the top of the sixth for arguing a borderline strike three call.
To press (a bank, etc.) with immediate demands for payment.
