Engels Woord van de dag

run

rennen

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run

1. loop

2. rennen, lopen

Engels > Engels

run

1. v. To move swiftly.

2. v. (intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.)

Run, Sarah, run!

3. v. (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

4. v. To cause to move quickly; to make move 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.

5. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To compete in a race.

The horse will run the Preakness next year. I'm not ready to run a marathon.

6. v. (intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.

7. v. (intransitive, soccer) To carry a football down the field.

8. v. To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.

The horse ran a great race.

9. v. (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.

10. v. (transitive, juggling, colloquial) To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.

11. v. (fluids) To flow.

12. v. (intransitive, figuratively) To move or spread quickly.

There's a strange story running around the neighborhood. The flu is running through my daughter's kindergarten.

13. v. (intransitive) Of a liquid, to flow.

The river runs through the forest. There's blood running down your leg.

14. v. (intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.

Your nose is running. Why is the hose still running? My cup runneth over.

15. v. To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from an object.

You'll have to run the water a while before it gets hot. Run the tap until the water gets hot.

16. v. (intransitive) To become liquid; to melt.

17. v. (intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).

He discovered during washing that the red rug ran on his white sheet, staining it pink.

18. v. To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.

to run bullets

19. v. (figurative, transitive) To go through without stopping, usually illegally.

run a red light or stop sign; run a blockade

20. v. (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.

21. v. (social) To carry out an activity.

22. v. 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 an expe

23. v. (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.

24. v. To make run in a race or an election.

He ran his best horse in the Derby. The Green Party is running twenty candidates in this election.

25. v. To exert continuous activity; to proceed.

to run through life; to run in a circle

26. v. (intransitive) To be presented in one of 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 t

27. v. To print or broadcast in the media.

run a story; run an ad

28. v. To transport someone or something.

Could you run me over to the store? Please run this report upstairs to director's office.

29. v. To smuggle illegal goods.

to run guns; to run rum

30. v. (transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.

Looks like we're gonna have to run the tomatoes again.

31. v. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.

32. v. (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 q

33. v. (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

34. v. To make something extend in space.

I need to run this wire along the wall.

35. v. (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.

36. v. To make a machine operate.

It's full. You can run the dishwasher now. Don't run the engine so fast.

37. v. 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

38. v. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.

to run from one subject to another

39. v. (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.

40. v. To cost a large amount of money.

Buying a new laptop will run you a thousand dollars. Laptops run about a thousand dollars apiece.

41. v. (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.

My stocking is running.

42. v. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.

43. v. To cause to enter; to thrust.

to run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into one's foot

44. v. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.

45. v. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.

to run a line

46. v. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).

to run the risk of losing one's life

47. v. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.

48. v. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.

49. v. 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.

50. v. To control or have precedence in a card game.

Every three or four hands he would run the table.

51. v. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.

52. v. (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.

53. v. To have growth or development.

Boys and girls run up rapidly.

54. v. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.

55. v. 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.

56. v. (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.

57. v. (video games) To speedrun.

58. n. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.