runt

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌnt

Noun

runt (plural runts)

1. The smallest animal of a litter.
2. Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person.
3. (computing) An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes.
4. (typography) A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph.
5. A breed of pigeon related to the carrier pigeon.
6. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A hardened stem or stalk of a plant.

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   Neither young poles nor old runts are durable. — Holland.

Translations

the smallest or the weakest animal of a litter or a pack

Finnish: pahnanpohjimmainen, pesueen pienin

French: avorton (fr) m., jsakdlv (fr)

undersized or stunted plant, animal or person

Finnish: rääpäle (fi), käppänä (fi)

Serbo-Croatian: kržljavac (sh)

Ethernet packet

Anagrams

• turn

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Dutch

Verb

runt

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of runnen.
2. plural imperative of runnen.

Anagrams

• turn

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Faroese

Adjective

runt n., rundur m., rund f.

1. round

Declension

rundur a7
Singular (eintal)	m. (kallkyn)	f. (kvennkyn)	n. (hvørkikyn)
Nominative (hvørfall)	rundur	rund	runt
Accusative (hvønnfall)	rundan	runda
Dative (hvørjumfall)	rundum	rundari	rundum
Genitive (hvørsfall)	(runds)	(rundar/ rundrar)	(runds)
Plural (fleirtal)	m. (kallkyn)	f. (kvennkyn)	n. (hvørkikyn)
Nominative (hvørfall)	rundir	rundar	rund
Accusative (hvønnfall)	rundar
Dative (hvørjumfall)	rundum
Genitive (hvørsfall)	(runda rundra)

Adverb

runt

1. around

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Swedish

Pronunciation

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Adjective

runt

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of rund.

Adverb

runt

1. around; aimlessly (about movement)

   gå runt

   walk around

2. around; at random locations
3. around; in a manner that involves a lot of transportation

See also

• gå runt
• se sig runt
• vända runt

Preposition

runt

1. around; denoting a full circle
2. around; following a path which curves near an object
3. around (a corner)
4. around, near (about time)

   Jag kommer runt tre.

   I'll come around three o'clock.

5. about; all round

Synonyms

• kring
• omkring

Derived terms

• runt om
• runt omkring