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Definition of runs

"runs" in the noun sense

1. run, tally

a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely

"the Yankees scored 3 runs in the bottom of the 9th"

"their first tally came in the 3rd inning"

2. test, trial, run

the act of testing something

"in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately"

"he called each flip of the coin a new trial"

3. footrace, foot race, run

a race run on foot

"she broke the record for the half-mile run"

4. streak, run

an unbroken series of events

"had a streak of bad luck"

"Nicklaus had a run of birdies"

5. run, running, running play, running game

American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team

"the defensive line braced to stop the run"

"the coach put great emphasis on running"

6. run

a regular trip

"the ship made its run in record time"

7. run, running

the act of running traveling on foot at a fast pace

"he broke into a run"

"his daily run keeps him fit"

8. run

the continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation

"the assembly line was on a 12-hour run"

9. run

unrestricted freedom to use

"he has the run of the house"

10. run

the production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.

"a daily run of 100,000 gallons of paint"

11. rivulet, rill, run, runnel, streamlet

a small stream

12. political campaign, campaign, run

a race between candidates for elective office

"I managed his campaign for governor"

"he is raising money for a Senate run"

13. run, ladder, ravel

a row of unravelled stitches

"she got a run in her stocking"

14. discharge, outpouring, run

the pouring forth of a fluid

15. run

an unbroken chronological sequence

"the play had a long run on Broadway"

"the team enjoyed a brief run of victories"

16. run

a short trip

"take a run into town"

"runs" in the verb sense

1. run

move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time

"Don't run

2. scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away

flee take to one's heels cut and run

"If you see this man, run!"

"The burglars escaped before the police showed up"

3. run, go, pass, lead, extend

stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point

"Service runs all the way to Cranbury"

"His knowledge doesn't go very far"

"My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"

"The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets"

4. operate, run

direct or control projects, businesses, etc.

"She is running a relief operation in the Sudan"

5. run, go

have a particular form

"the story or argument runs as follows"

"as the saying goes..."

6. run, flow, feed, course

move along, of liquids

"Water flowed into the cave"

"the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"

7. function, work, operate, go, run

perform as expected when applied

"The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"

"Does this old car still run well?"

"This old radio doesn't work anymore"

8. range, run

change or be different within limits

"Estimates for the losses in the earthquake range as high as $2 billion"

"Interest rates run from 5 to 10 percent"

"The instruments ranged from tuba to cymbals"

"My students range from very bright to dull"

9. campaign, run

run, stand, or compete for an office or a position

"Who's running for treasurer this year?"

10. play, run

cause to emit recorded audio or video

"They ran the tapes over and over again"

"I'll play you my favorite record"

"He never tires of playing that video"

11. run

move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way

"who are these people running around in the building?"

"She runs around telling everyone of her troubles"

"let the dogs run free"

12. tend, be given, lean, incline, run

have a tendency or disposition to do or be something be inclined

"She tends to be nervous before her lectures"

"These dresses run small"

"He inclined to corpulence"

13. run

be operating, running or functioning

"The car is still running

14. run

change from one state to another

"run amok"

"run rogue"

"run riot"

15. run

cause to perform

"run a subject"

"run a process"

16. run

be affected by be subjected to

"run a temperature"

"run a risk"

17. prevail, persist, die hard, run, endure

continue to exist

"These stories die hard"

"The legend of Elvis endures"

18. run

occur persistently

"Musical talent runs in the family"

19. run, execute

carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine

"Run the dishwasher"

"run a new program on the Mac"

"the computer executed the instruction"

20. carry, run

include as the content broadcast or publicize

"We ran the ad three times"

"This paper carries a restaurant review"

"All major networks carried the press conference"

21. run

carry out

"run an errand"

22. guide, run, draw, pass

pass over, across, or through

"He ran his eyes over her body"

"She ran her fingers along the carved figurine"

"He drew her hair through his fingers"

23. run, lead

cause something to pass or lead somewhere

"Run the wire behind the cabinet"

24. run

make without a miss

25. run, black market

deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor

26. run

cause an animal to move fast

"run the dogs"

27. run, bleed

be diffused

"These dyes and colors are guaranteed not to run"

28. run

sail before the wind

29. run

cover by running run a certain distance

"She ran 10 miles that day"

30. run, run for

extend or continue for a certain period of time

"The film runs 5 hours"

31. run

set animals loose to graze

32. run, consort

keep company

"the heifers run with the bulls to produce offspring"

33. run

run with the ball in such sports as football

34. run

travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means

"Run to the store!"

"She always runs to Italy, because she has a lover there"

35. ply, run

travel a route regularly

"Ships ply the waters near the coast"

36. hunt, run, hunt down, track down

pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals

"Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"

"The dogs are running deer"

"The Duke hunted in these woods"

37. race, run

compete in a race

"he is running the Marathon this year"

"let's race and see who gets there first"

38. move, go, run

progress by being changed

"The speech has to go through several more drafts"

"run through your presentation before the meeting"

39. melt, run, melt down

reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating

"melt butter"

"melt down gold"

"The wax melted in the sun"

40. ladder, run

come unraveled or undone as if by snagging

"Her nylons were running"

41. run, unravel

become undone

"the sweater unraveled"

Source: WordNet® (An amazing lexical database of English)

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Quotations for runs

He that runs may read. [ Tennyson ]

He that runs may rally. [ Proverb ]

He runs far who never turns. [ Italian Proverb ]

He who fights and runs away
May live to fight another day.
But he who is in battle slain,
Can never rise to fight again. [ Goldsmith ]

He that fights and runs away
May live to fight another day. [ Goldsmith ]

Read my little fable:
He that runs may read.
Most can raise the flowers now,
For all have got the seed. [ Tennyson ]

The borrower runs in his own debt. [ Emerson ]

The river knows the way to the sea:
Without a pilot it runs and falls.
Blessing all lands with its charity. [ Emerson ]

He runs far indeed that never returns. [ Proverb ]

A soul without reflection, like a pile
Without inhabitants, to ruin runs. [ Young ]

The tale runs as it pleases the teller. [ Proverb ]

Lovers' time runs faster than the clock. [ Proverb ]

A woman's thought runs before her actions. [ William Shakespeare ]

He that runs in the dark may well stumble. [ Proverb ]

Smooth runs the water where brook is deep. [ William Shakespeare ]

Why, let the stricken deer go weep,
The heart ungalled play;
For some must watch, while some must sleep;
Thus runs the world away. [ William Shakespeare ]

Oh! I will curse thee til! thy frighted soul
Runs mad with horror. [ Lee ]

Though the fox runs the chickens have wings. [ Proverb ]

Where the river is deepest it runs quietest. [ Proverb ]

Fancy, like the finger of a clock,
Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. [ Cowper ]

Come what, come may:
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. [ William Shakespeare ]

Dreams where thought, in fancy's maze, runs mad. [ Young ]

The fool runs away while his house is burning down. [ Proverb ]

When one runs after wit, he is sure to catch nonsense. [ Montesquieu ]

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him. [ Proverb ]

Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it. [ Proverb ]

He that passes a judgment as he runs overtakes repentance. [ Proverb ]

He has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into. [ Proverb ]

He that runs out by extravagancy must retrieve by parsimony. [ Proverb ]

Fancy runs most furiously when a guilty conscience drives it. [ Fuller ]

The tree is no sooner down, but every one runs for his hatchet. [ Proverb ]

Great talkers are like leaky pitchers, everything runs out of them. [ Proverb ]

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. [ Ouida ]

The first vice of the first woman was curiosity, and it runs through the whole sex. [ Richardson ]

The cheek may be tinged with a warm sunny smile, though the cold heart to ruin runs darkly the while. [ Moore ]

What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier? [ Walter Scott ]

Let us love! let us enjoy the fugitive hour! Man has no harbor, time has no shores: it runs, and we pass! [ Lamartine ]

Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman runs away with the applause. [ Lord Karnes ]

'Tis the fulness of man that runs over into objects, and makes his Bibles and Shakespeares and Homers so great. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other. [ Lord Bacon ]

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself: all that runs over will be yours. [ Colton ]

Through all God's works there runs a beautiful harmony. The remotest truth in His universe is linked to that which lies nearest the throne. [ E. H. Chapin ]

The best ground, untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds; a man of knowledge that is either negligent or uncorrected cannot but grow wild and godless. [ Bishop Hall ]

Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it. [ T. W. Higginson ]

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious, if unmixed, and to carry the danger to the edge of ruin, nature causes each man's peculiarity to superabound. [ Emerson ]

Good counsel is like unto well-water, that must be drawn up with a pump or bucket; ill counsel is like to conduit-water, which if the cork be but turned runs out alone. [ Bishop Hall ]

The first wealth is health. Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve any one; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities. [ Emerson ]

There is dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens its cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself and the drop runs off. So God rains goodness and mercy as wide as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we do not open our hearts to receive them. [ Aughey ]

A prolific source of obscurity is ambiguous arrangement. A member of the Savage Club, so runs the story, was one day standing on the steps of the club house. A messenger stopped and inquired: Does a gentleman belong to your club with one eye named Walker? I don't know, was the answer, what was the name of his other eye? [ Sir J. F. Stephen, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety, - all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs. [ Beecher ]

The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gems. [ Coleridge ]

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runs in Scrabble®

The word runs is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 4

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The word runs is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

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Words containing the sequence runs

Words that start with runs (1 word)

runs

Words with runs in them (1 word)

runs

Words that end with runs (7 words)

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Word Growth involving runs

Shorter words in runs

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Longer words containing runs

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