Execute vs. Run: Know the Difference
By Shumaila Saeed || Updated on December 25, 2023
Execute means to carry out an action or plan, often with precision, while run refers to operating or functioning, and can also mean to move swiftly on foot.
Key Differences
Execute typically involves performing a task or plan with precision and care, often used in formal or technical contexts. Run, in contrast, is a more general term, signifying the operation or functioning of a system, machine, or process, and can also refer to physical movement.
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In computing, execute is used to denote the process of running a program or command, emphasizing the initiation of a predefined set of instructions. Run in computing also refers to the operation of software or programs, but with a broader sense of ongoing operation or use.
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Execute often implies a sense of completion, as in executing a task or plan, suggesting a conclusive action. Run, when not referring to physical movement, implies a continuous or ongoing process, as in a system running smoothly.
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The term execute can also have a legal or formal implication, like executing a legal document, denoting the act of making something valid or effective. Run, alternatively, has diverse meanings, from managing or operating something to competing in a race or election.
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In a broader sense, execute implies a deliberate action or implementation of something specific, whereas run encompasses a wider range of activities, including operating, managing, functioning, or physical movement.
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Comparison Chart
Primary Usage
Performing a task with precision
Operating or functioning of a system/movement
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Formal, technical, legal
General, diverse, including physical movement
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Diversity of Use
Specific actions or tasks
Wide range, including management, competition
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Execute and Run Definitions
Execute
Execute involves performing an artistic or skilled action.
The artist executed the intricate design with great skill.
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Run can refer to operating or functioning of machinery.
The machine runs 24/7 to meet production demands.
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Execute means to perform or carry out a task or plan.
She executed the marketing strategy flawlessly.
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In computing, run means to operate software or a program.
I'll run a virus scan on my computer.
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Execute refers to carrying out a legal order or document.
The lawyer executed the will as per the client's instructions.
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Run
Run is used for managing or directing an operation or business.
She runs a successful online store.
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Execute
To put into effect; carry out
A government that executes the decisions of the ruling party.
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To move swiftly on foot so that both or all feet are not on the ground during each stride.
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To create (a work of art, for example) in accordance with a prescribed design.
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To migrate, especially to move in a shoal in order to spawn. Used of fish.
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To perform or carry out what is required by
Execute the terms of a will.
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(transitive) To kill, especially as punishment for a capital crime. Category:en:Capital punishment
There are certain states where it is lawful to execute prisoners convicted of certain crimes.
According to international treaties, it is illegal to execute prisoners of war.
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To make a short, quick trip or visit
Ran next door to borrow a cup of sugar.
Ran down to the store.
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Execute
(transitive) To carry out; to put into effect.
Your orders have been executed, sir!
I'll execute your orders as soon as this meeting is adjourned.
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Run
To take part in a race or contest by running
Ran in the marathon.
Athletes who run for the gold medal.
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(transitive) To perform.
To execute a difficult piece of music brilliantly
To execute a turn in ballet
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To carry out, to perform an act; to put into effect or cause to become legally binding or valid (as a contract) by so doing.
To execute a contract
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Run
To move freely, as on wheels
The car ran downhill. The drawer runs on small bearings.
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To run, usually successfully.
The program executed, but data problems were discovered.
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To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.
Why delaysHis hand to execute what his decreeFixed on this day?
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Run
(Nautical) To sail or steer before the wind or on an indicated course
Run before a storm.
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To complete, as a legal instrument; to perform what is required to give validity to, as by signing and perhaps sealing and delivering; as, to execute a deed, lease, mortgage, will, etc.
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Run
To flow, especially in a steady stream
Fresh water runs from the spring. Turn on the faucet and let the water run.
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Execute
To give effect to; to do what is provided or required by; to perform the requirements or stipulations of; as, to execute a decree, judgment, writ, or process.
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To infect capital punishment on; to put to death in conformity to a legal sentence; as, to execute a traitor.
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Run
To be wet or covered with a liquid
The street ran with blood. The mourners' eyes ran with tears.
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To perform, as a piece of music or other feat of skill, whether on an instrument or with the voice, or in any other manner requiring physical activity; as, to execute a difficult part brilliantly; to execute a coup; to execute a double play.
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Run
To have dye spread or dissolve
Colorfast garments are not supposed to run.
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To extend, stretch, or reach in a certain direction or to a particular point
This road runs to the next town.
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Kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment;
In some states, criminals are executed
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Murder execution-style;
The Mafioso who collaborated with the police was executed
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To become known or prevalent rapidly in or over an area
Disease that ran rampant.
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Execute
Put in effect;
Carry out a task
Execute the decision of the people
He actioned the operation
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Run
To be valid or in effect, as in a given area
The speed limit runs only to the town line.
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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
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Run
To be present as a valid accompaniment
Fishing rights run with ownership of the land.
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Execute
Carry out or perform an action;
John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters
The skater executed a triple pirouette
She did a little dance
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Execute
Sign in the presence of witnesses;
The President executed the treaty
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Execute
In computing, execute means to run a program or command.
The software executed the command within seconds.
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Execute can mean to put to death, especially legally.
The court ordered the sentence to be executed immediately.
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Run
To pass into or become subject to a specified condition
We ran into debt.
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Run
To take a particular form, order, or expression
My reasoning runs thus. The report runs as follows.
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To occupy or exist in a certain range
The sizes run from small to large.
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To be presented or performed
The lecture is running late. The play ran for six months.
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To be published or broadcast, especially as news
The story ran in the sports section on Sunday.
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To travel over on foot at a pace faster than a walk
Ran the entire distance.
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Run
To cause (an animal) to move quickly or rapidly
Ran the horse around the track.
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To allow to move without restraint
We like to run the dogs along the beach.
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To present or nominate for elective office
The party ran her for senator.
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Run
To convey or transport
Run me into town. Run the garbage over to the dump.
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Run
To submit for consideration or review
I'll run the idea by you before I write the proposal.
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Run
To be as a cost for; cost
Those hotel rooms can run you hundreds of dollars a night.
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To control, manage, or direct
Ran the campaign by himself.
A bureau that runs espionage operations.
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To compare (data) with data in a database or other storage medium
The police ran the license plate number to see if the car was registered.
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Run
The time taken to cover such a distance
By taxi, it is a two minutes' run from the station.
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A straight course or short distance followed by an aircraft before dropping a bomb on a target.
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(Baseball) A point scored by advancing around the bases and reaching home plate safely.
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(Football) A player's act of carrying the ball, usually for a specified distance
A 30-yard run.
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A track or slope along or down which something can travel
A logging run.
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(Sports) A particular type of passage down a hill or across country experienced by an athlete, such as a skier or bobsledder
Had two very good runs before the end of the day.
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Australian & New Zealand A tract of open land used for raising livestock; a ranch.
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The direction, configuration, or lie of something
The run of the grain in leather.
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(Nautical) The immersed part of a ship's hull abaft of the middle body.
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A continuous period of operation, especially of a machine or factory
Gave the new furnace a run.
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The production achieved during such a period
A press run of 15,000 copies.
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An unbroken sequence or period of performances or presentations, as in the theater.
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A successful sequence of actions, such as well-played shots or victories in a sport.
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A series of unexpected and urgent demands, as by depositors or customers
A run on a bank.
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The average type, group, or category
The broad run of voters want the candidate to win.
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(intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. Compare walk.
Run, Sarah, run!
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(intransitive) To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
The horse ran the length of the track.
I have been running all over the building looking for him.
Sorry, I've got to run; my house is on fire.
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Run
(transitive) To cause to move quickly or lightly.
Every day I run my dog across the field and back.
I'll just run the vacuum cleaner over the carpet.
Run your fingers through my hair.
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Run
To compete in a race.
The horse will run the Preakness next year.
I'm not ready to run a marathon.
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(transitive) To transport someone or something, notionally at a brisk pace.
Could you run me over to the store?
Please run this report upstairs to director's office.
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Run
Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
The bus (train, plane, ferry boat, etc) runs between Newport and Riverside
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To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
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(transitive) To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.
The horse ran a great race.
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(intransitive) To flee from a danger or towards help.
Whenever things get tough, she cuts and runs.
When he's broke, he runs to me for money.
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To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
If you have a collision with a vehicle oncoming from the right, after having run priority to the right, you are at fault.
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To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
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(intransitive) Of a liquid, to flow.
The river runs through the forest.
There's blood running down your leg.
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To move or spread quickly.
There's a strange story running around the neighborhood.
The flu is running through my daughter's kindergarten.
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(intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
Your nose is running.
Why is the hose still running?
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(transitive) To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from or into an object.
You'll have to run the water a while before it gets hot.
Could you run a bath for me, please?
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(intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
During washing, the red from the rug ran onto the white sheet, staining it pink.
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To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
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(transitive) To control or manage, be in charge of.
My uncle ran a corner store for forty years.
She runs the fundraising.
My parents think they run my life.
He is running the candidate's expensive campaign.
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(intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.
I have decided to run for governor of California.
We're trying to find somebody to run against him next year.
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(transitive) To make run in an election.
The Green Party is running twenty candidates in this election.
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To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
To run through life; to run in a circle
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(intransitive) To be presented in the media.
The story will run on the 6-o'clock news.
The latest Robin Williams movie is running at the Silver City theatre.
Her picture ran on the front page of the newspaper.
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To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
Looks like we're gonna have to run the tomatoes again.
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To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
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(intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
The border runs for 3000 miles.
The leash runs along a wire.
The grain of the wood runs to the right on this table.
It ran in quality from excellent to substandard.
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(intransitive) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
The sale will run for ten days.
The contract runs through 2008.
The meeting ran late.
The book runs 655 pages.
The speech runs as follows: …
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(transitive) To make something extend in space.
I need to run this wire along the wall.
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(intransitive) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
My car stopped running.
That computer runs twenty-four hours a day.
Buses don't run here on Sunday.
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(transitive) To make a machine operate.
It's full. You can run the dishwasher now.
Don't run the engine so fast.
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(transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
They ran twenty blood tests on me and they still don't know what's wrong.
Our coach had us running plays for the whole practice.
I will run the sample.
Don't run that software unless you have permission.
My computer is too old to run the new OS.
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To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
To run from one subject to another
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(copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
Our supplies are running low.
They frequently overspent and soon ran into debt.
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(transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
Buying a new laptop will run you a thousand dollars.
Laptops run about a thousand dollars apiece.
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(intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
My stocking is running.
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To cause to enter; to thrust.
To run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into one's foot
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To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
To run a line
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To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
To run the risk of losing one's life
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To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
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To control or have precedence in a card game.
Every three or four hands he would run the table.
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To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
Certain covenants run with the land.
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To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
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(golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
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Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
I just got back from my morning run.
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Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) not necessarily on foot; dash or errand, trip.
I need to make a run to the store.
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A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
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A (regular) trip or route.
The bus on the Cherry Street run is always crowded.
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A trial.
The data got lost, so I'll have to perform another run of the experiment.
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The execution of a program or model
This morning's run of the SHIPS statistical model gave Hurricane Priscilla a 74% chance of gaining at least 30 knots of intensity in 24 hours, reconfirmed by the HMON and GFS dynamical models.
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(video games) A playthrough, or attempted playthrough; a session of play.
This was my first successful run without losing any health.
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An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
He set up a rabbit run.
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Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
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A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
I’m having a run of bad luck.
He went to Las Vegas and spent all his money over a three-day run.
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A series of tries in a game that were successful.
If our team can keep up their strong defense, expect them to make a run in this tournament.
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A production quantity (such as in a factory).
Yesterday we did a run of 12,000 units.
The book’s initial press run will be 5,000 copies.
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The period of showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
The run of the show lasted two weeks, and we sold out every night.
It is the last week of our French cinema run.
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A flow of liquid; a leak.
The constant run of water from the faucet annoys me.
A run of must in wine-making
The first run of sap in a maple orchard
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A small creek or part thereof. Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.
The military campaign near that creek was known as "The battle of Bull Run".
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(banking) A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
Financial insecurity led to a run on the banks, as customers feared for the security of their savings.
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Any sudden large demand for something.
There was a run on Christmas presents.
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The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
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A standard or unexceptional group or category.
He stood out from the usual run of applicants.
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(baseball) A score when a runner touches all bases legally; the act of a runner scoring.
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(cricket) The act of passing from one wicket to another; the point scored for this.
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(American football) A running play.
[...] one of the greatest runs of all time.
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(golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
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A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
I have a run in my stocking.
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(nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
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(mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
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In a liquid state; melted or molten.
Put some run butter on the vegetables.
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To move, proceed, advance, pass, go, come, etc., swiftly, smoothly, or with quick action; - said of things animate or inanimate. Hence, to flow, glide, or roll onward, as a stream, a snake, a wagon, etc.; to move by quicker action than in walking, as a person, a horse, a dog.
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To go swiftly; to pass at a swift pace; to hasten.
"Ha, ha, the fox!" and after him they ran.
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To flee, as from fear or danger.
As from a bear a man would run for life.
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To flow, as a liquid; to ascend or descend; to course; as, rivers run to the sea; sap runs up in the spring; her blood ran cold.
The fire ran along upon the ground.
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To become fluid; to melt; to fuse.
As wax dissolves, as ice begins to run.
Sussex iron ores run freely in the fire.
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Specifically, of a horse: To move rapidly in a gait in which each leg acts in turn as a propeller and a supporter, and in which for an instant all the limbs are gathered in the air under the body.
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To contend in a race; hence, to enter into a contest; to become a candidate; as, to run for Congress.
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
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To turn, as a wheel; to revolve on an axis or pivot; as, a wheel runs swiftly round.
She saw with joy the line immortal run,Each sire impressed, and glaring in his son.
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To move rapidly by springing steps so that there is an instant in each step when neither foot touches the ground; - so distinguished from walking in athletic competition.
And had her stock been less, no doubtShe must have long ago run out.
But these, having been untrimmed for many years, had run up into great bushes, or rather dwarf trees.
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To pass from one state or condition to another; to come into a certain condition; - often with in or into; as, to run into evil practices; to run in debt.
Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast, to rend my heart with grief and run distracted?
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To go back and forth from place to place; to ply; as, the stage runs between the hotel and the station.
As fast as our time runs, we should be very glad in most part of our lives that it ran much faster.
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To exert continuous activity; to proceed; as, to run through life; to run in a circle.
Virgil, in his first Georgic, has run into a set of precepts foreign to his subject.
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Oct 19, 2023
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To continue in operation; to be kept in action or motion; as, this engine runs night and day; the mill runs six days in the week.
When we desire anything, our minds run wholly on the good circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.
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Oct 19, 2023
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To have a course or direction; as, a line runs east and west.
Where the generally allowed practice runs counter to it.
Little is the wisdom, where the flightSo runs against all reason.
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Oct 19, 2023
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To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
The king's ordinary style runneth, "Our sovereign lord the king."
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Oct 19, 2023
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To be popularly known; to be generally received.
Men gave them their own names, by which they run a great while in Rome.
Neither was he ignorant what report ran of himself.
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Oct 19, 2023
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To have growth or development; as, boys and girls run up rapidly.
If the richness of the ground cause turnips to run to leaves.
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To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
Temperate climates run into moderate governments.
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Oct 19, 2023
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To spread and blend together; to unite; as, colors run in washing.
In the middle of a rainbow the colors are . . . distinguished, but near the borders they run into one another.
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Oct 19, 2023
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To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company; as, certain covenants run with the land.
Customs run only upon our goods imported or exported, and that but once for all; whereas interest runs as well upon our ships as goods, and must be yearly paid.
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Oct 19, 2023
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To continue without falling due; to hold good; as, a note has thirty days to run.
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Oct 19, 2023
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To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
To run the world back to its first original.
I would gladly understand the formation of a soul, and run it up to its "punctum saliens."
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Oct 19, 2023
Run
To cause to enter; to thrust; as, to run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into the foot.
You run your head into the lion's mouth.
Having run his fingers through his hair.
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Oct 19, 2023
Run
To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
They ran the ship aground.
A talkative person runs himself upon great inconveniences by blabbing out his own or other's secrets.
Others, accustomed to retired speculations, run natural philosophy into metaphysical notions.
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Oct 19, 2023
Run
To fuse; to shape; to mold; to cast; as, to run bullets, and the like.
The purest gold must be run and washed.
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Oct 19, 2023
Run
To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine; as, to run a line.
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Oct 19, 2023
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To cause to pass, or evade, offical restrictions; to smuggle; - said of contraband or dutiable goods.
Heavy impositions . . . are a strong temptation of running goods.
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Oct 19, 2023
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To go through or accomplish by running; as, to run a race; to run a certain career.
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Oct 19, 2023
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To cause to stand as a candidate for office; to support for office; as, to run some one for Congress.
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Oct 19, 2023
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To encounter or incur, as a danger or risk; as, to run the risk of losing one's life. See To run the chances, below.
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
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Oct 19, 2023
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To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
He would himself be in the Highlands to receive them, and run his fortune with them.
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Oct 19, 2023
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To discharge; to emit; to give forth copiously; to be bathed with; as, the pipe or faucet runs hot water.
At the base of Pompey's statua,Which all the while ran blood, great Cæsar fell.
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Oct 19, 2023
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To be charged with, or to contain much of, while flowing; as, the rivers ran blood.
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Oct 19, 2023
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To sew, as a seam, by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
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Oct 19, 2023
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To migrate or move in schools; - said of fish; esp., to ascend a river in order to spawn.
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Oct 19, 2023
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To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
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Oct 19, 2023
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The act of running; as, a long run; a good run; a quick run; to go on the run.
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Oct 19, 2023
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That which runs or flows in the course of a certain operation, or during a certain time; as, a run of must in wine making; the first run of sap in a maple orchard.
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Oct 19, 2023
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A course; a series; that which continues in a certain course or series; as, a run of good or bad luck.
They who made their arrangements in the first run of misadventure . . . put a seal on their calamities.
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Oct 19, 2023
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State of being current; currency; popularity.
It is impossible for detached papers to have a general run, or long continuance, if not diversified with humor.
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Oct 19, 2023
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Continued repetition on the stage; - said of a play; as, to have a run of a hundred successive nights.
A canting, mawkish play . . . had an immense run.
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Oct 19, 2023
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A continuing urgent demand; especially, a pressure on a bank or treasury for payment of its notes.
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Oct 19, 2023
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The aftermost part of a vessel's hull where it narrows toward the stern, under the quarter.
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Oct 19, 2023
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The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by license of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
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Oct 19, 2023
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The greatest degree of swiftness in marching. It is executed upon the same principles as the double-quick, but with greater speed.
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Oct 19, 2023
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The act of migrating, or ascending a river to spawn; - said of fish; also, an assemblage or school of fishes which migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
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Oct 19, 2023
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In baseball, a complete circuit of the bases made by a player, which enables him to score one point; also, the point thus scored; in cricket, a passing from one wicket to the other, by which one point is scored; as, a player made three runs; the side went out with two hundred runs; the Yankees scored three runs in the seventh inning.
The "runs" are made from wicket to wicket, the batsmen interchanging ends at each run.
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Oct 19, 2023
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A number of cards of the same suit in sequence; as, a run of four in hearts.
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Oct 19, 2023
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The movement communicated to a golf ball by running.
[Man] starts the inferior of the brute animals, but he surpasses them in the long run.
I saw nothing else that is superior to the common run of parks.
Burns never dreamed of looking down on others as beneath him, merely because he was conscious of his own vast superiority to the common run of men.
His whole appearance was something out of the common run.
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Oct 19, 2023
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Melted, or made from molten material; cast in a mold; as, run butter; run iron or lead.
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Oct 19, 2023
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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
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Oct 19, 2023
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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
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Oct 19, 2023
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An unbroken series of events;
Had a streak of bad luck
Nicklaus had a run of birdies
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Oct 19, 2023
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(American football) a play in which a player runs with the ball;
The defensive line braced to stop the run
The coach put great emphasis on running
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Oct 19, 2023
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The act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace;
He broke into a run
His daily run keeps him fit
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Oct 19, 2023
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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
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Oct 19, 2023
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The production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.);
A daily run of 100,000 gallons of paint
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A race between candidates for elective office;
I managed his campaign for governor
He is raising money for a Senate run
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Oct 19, 2023
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An unbroken chronological sequence;
The play had a long run on Broadway
The team enjoyed a brief run of victories
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Oct 19, 2023
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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 breath
The children ran to the store
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Oct 19, 2023
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Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run;
If you see this man, run!
The burglars escaped before the police showed up
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Oct 19, 2023
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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
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Oct 19, 2023
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Direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.;
She is running a relief operation in the Sudan
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Oct 19, 2023
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Have a particular form;
The story or argument runs as follows
As the saying goes...
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Oct 19, 2023
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Move along, of liquids;
Water flowed into the cave
The Missouri feeds into the Mississippi
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Oct 19, 2023
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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
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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
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Oct 19, 2023
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Run, stand, or compete for an office or a position;
Who's running for treasurer this year?
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Oct 19, 2023
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Cause to emit recorded sounds;
They ran the tapes over and over again
Can you play my favorite record?
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Oct 19, 2023
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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
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Oct 19, 2023
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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
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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
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Oct 19, 2023
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Be operating, running or functioning;
The car is still running--turn it off!
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Oct 19, 2023
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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
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Oct 19, 2023
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Guide or pass over something;
He ran his eyes over her body
She ran her fingers along the carved figurine
He drew her hair through his fingers
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Cause something to pass or lead somewhere;
Run the wire behind the cabinet
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Travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means;
Run to the store!
She always runs to Italy, because she has a lover there
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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
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Compete in a race;
He is running the Marathon this year
Let's race and see who gets there first
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Progress by being changed;
The speech has to go through several more drafts
Run through your presentation before the meeting
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Oct 19, 2023
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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
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Run can imply flowing or extending in a certain direction.
The river runs through the town.
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Repeatedly Asked Queries
What does execute mean?
Execute means to carry out or implement a plan, order, or task.
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How is execute used in legal terms?
Execute in legal terms means to make a document valid, like executing a will.
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How does run apply to machinery?
Run refers to the operation or functioning of machinery.
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Can run be used in computing?
Yes, run in computing refers to operating software or a program.
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Is execute used in the death penalty context?
Yes, execute can mean to carry out a death sentence.
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Does execute imply precision?
Execute often implies performing a task with precision and care.
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Can run be used to describe flowing liquids?
Yes, run can describe the movement of liquids, like water running in a river.
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What does run mean in a competitive context?
Run can mean to compete, as in running for office or in a race.
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What is the primary meaning of run?
Run primarily refers to operating, functioning, or moving swiftly on foot.
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Is execute a technical term in computing?
Yes, in computing, execute means to start or run a program or command.
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Can execute be used for artistic actions?
Yes, execute can describe performing an artistic or skilled action.
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What does run mean in business?
In business, run means to manage or operate a venture or operation.
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Can run imply continuation?
Yes, run can imply an ongoing process or operation.
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Is execute always about completion?
Execute often implies bringing a task or plan to completion.
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How does execute relate to strategy implementation?
Execute is often used in implementing strategies or plans effectively.
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Does run have a physical exercise meaning?
Yes, run commonly means to move swiftly on foot, as in jogging or sprinting.
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What types of tasks does execute encompass?
Execute encompasses tasks that require careful planning and implementation.
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Can execute be used casually?
Execute is more formal and is less likely used in casual conversation.
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How does run relate to direction?
Run can describe extending in a direction, like a road running north.
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Does run have diverse meanings?
Run has diverse meanings, from physical movement to operating systems and businesses.
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