run

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   have a particular form

   the story or argument runs as follows

2. 2
   noun

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

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

3. 3
   noun

   a regular trip

   the ship made its run in record time

4. 4
   noun

   a short trip

   take a run into town

5. 5
   noun

   (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

6. 6
   noun

   an unbroken chronological sequence

   the play had a long run on Broadway

7. 7
   noun

   a row of unravelled stitches

   I got a run in my stocking.

8. 8
   noun

   a race run on foot

   I broke the record for the half-mile run.

Etymology

From Middle English runnen, rennen (“to run”), alteration (due to the past participle runne, runnen, yronne) of Middle English rinnen (“to run”), from Old English rinnan, iernan (“to run”) and Old Norse rinna (“to run”), both from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną (“to run”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“to boil, churn”). Cognate with Scots rin (“to run”), West Frisian rinne (“to walk, march”), archaic Dutch rinnen (“to flow”, still in geronnen), German rinnen (“to flow”), Swedish rinna (“to flow”), and Icelandic renna (“to flow”). From the causative Proto-Germanic *rannijaną (“to make run”) are…