running
See also: Running
English
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) Audio (UK male): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌnɪŋ
Adjective
running (not comparable)
- Moving or advancing at a run.
- Present, current.
- running month
- Flowing; easy; cursive.
- running handwriting
- Continuous; ongoing; keeping along step by step.
- a running explanation
- 1778, John Hamilton Moore, A New and Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels:
- Thus a constant running fire was kept up, and no interval allowed for the enemy to stand to their guns in safety […]
- (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- a running conquest
- (Can we date this quote by Hare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- What are art and science if not a running commentary on Nature?
- Having a continuous design or pattern.
- running bond; running ornament
- Consecutive.
- (botany) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.
- a running vine
- (medicine) Discharging pus.
- a running sore
- (of a nose) Discharging snot or mucus.
- a running nose
Synonyms
- (nose): runny
Hyponyms
Translations
moving by running
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present, current
easy, cursive
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continuous, keeping along step by step
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botany: extending by slender stem
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discharging pus
discharging snot or mucus
Adverb
running (not comparable)
- (informal) consecutively; in a row
- Mom's strawberry jam won the blue ribbon at the Holland County Fair three years running.
Translations
consecutively
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Noun
running (countable and uncountable, plural runnings)
- The action of the verb to run.
- His running of the business leaves something to be desired.
- The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason
- Running is good exercise.
- That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.
- the first running of a still
- The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
Translations
the action of the verb to run
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sport
quantity of liquid which flows in a certain time
discharge from a sore
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Verb
running
- present participle of run
Derived terms
Terms derived from running (all parts of speech)
- bungee running
- drug running
- free running
- front running
- hand running
- hit the ground running
- hitting and running
- in running order
- in the running
- off and running
- out of the running
- rat running
- retro running
- running costs
- running dictation
- running line
- running rail
- running shed
- running sore
- running track
- running water
- up and running
Spanish
Noun
running m (uncountable)
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