run
move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
How often you will meet it
Rank 488 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 41,973 times across 175,160 chapters — 0.020% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
verb
- move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time Don't run--you'll be out of breathThe children ran to the store
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run also: scat, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it If you see this man, run!The burglars escaped before the police showed up
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point also: go, pass, lead, extend Service runs all the way to CranburyHis knowledge doesn't go very far
- direct or control; projects, businesses, etc. also: operate She is running a relief operation in the Sudan
- have a particular form also: go the story or argument runs as followsas the saying goes...
- move along, of liquids also: flow, feed, course Water flowed into the cavethe Missouri feeds into the Mississippi
run in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Leave this farm alone--it won't run away.
The Heart of the Hills · John, Jr. Fox · Chapter 1
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Like a shot animal he suddenly began to run.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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From Marseilles to Genoa is a run of one night.
The Innocents Abroad — Volume 01 · Mark Twain · Chapter 1
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My subscription, I find, has only a year to run.
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1
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Whenever you think we are going to have green peas for lunch, you run up very quickly.
Cornelli · Johanna Spyri · Chapter 1