Dap (noun)
Elaborate handshake, especially hooking thumbs.
Dap (noun)
A fistbump.
“dab”
Dap (verb)
To greet with a dap.
Run (verb)
To move swiftly.
Run (verb)
To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. Compare walk.
“Run, Sarah, run!”
Run (verb)
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.”
Run (verb)
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.”
“Can you run these data through the program for me and tell me whether it gives an error?”
Run (verb)
To compete in a race.
“The horse will run the Preakness next year.”
“I’m not ready to run a marathon.”
Run (verb)
Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
Run (verb)
To carry a football down the field.
Run (verb)
To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.
“The horse ran a great race.”
Run (verb)
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.”
Run (verb)
To go through without stopping, usually illegally.
“run a red light or stop sign;”
“run a blockade”
Run (verb)
To flow.
Run (verb)
To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
Run (verb)
To move or spread quickly.
“There’s a strange story running around the neighborhood.”
“The flu is running through my daughter’s kindergarten.”
Run (verb)
Of a liquid, to flow.
“The river runs through the forest.”
“There’s blood running down your leg.”
Run (verb)
Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
“Your nose is running.”
“Why is the hose still running?”
“My cup runneth over.”
Run (verb)
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.”
Run (verb)
To become liquid; to melt.
Run (verb)
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.”
Run (verb)
To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
Run (verb)
To carry out an activity.
Run (verb)
To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
“to run bullets”
Run (verb)
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 expensive campaign.”
Run (verb)
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.”
Run (verb)
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.”
Run (verb)
To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
“to run through life;”
“to run in a circle”
Run (verb)
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 the front page of the newspaper.”
Run (verb)
To print or broadcast in the media.
“run a story;”
“run an ad”
Run (verb)
To transport someone or something.
“Could you run me over to the store?”
“Please run this report upstairs to director’s office.”
Run (verb)
To smuggle illegal goods.
“to run guns;”
“to run rum”
Run (verb)
To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
Run (verb)
To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
“Looks like we’re gonna have to run the tomatoes again.”
Run (verb)
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.”
Run (verb)
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: …”
Run (verb)
To make something extend in space.
“I need to run this wire along the wall.”
Run (verb)
Of a operating or working normally.
“My car stopped running.”
“That computer runs twenty-four hours a day.”
“Buses don’t run here on Sunday.”
Run (verb)
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.”
Run (verb)
To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
“to run from one subject to another”
Run (verb)
To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
“Our supplies are running low.”
“They frequently overspent and soon ran into debt.”
Run (verb)
To cost a large amount of money.
“Buying a new laptop will run you a thousand dollars.”
“Laptops run about a thousand dollars apiece.”
Run (verb)
Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
“My stocking is running.”
Run (verb)
To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
Run (verb)
To cause to enter; to thrust.
“to run a sword into or through the body;”
“to run a nail into one’s foot”
Run (verb)
To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
Run (verb)
To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
“to run a line”
Run (verb)
To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
“to run the risk of losing one’s life”
Run (verb)
To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
Run (verb)
To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
Run (verb)
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.
Run (verb)
To control or have precedence in a card game.
“Every three or four hands he would run the table.”
Run (verb)
To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
Run (verb)
To be popularly known; to be generally received.
Run (verb)
To have growth or development.
“Boys and girls run up rapidly.”
Run (verb)
To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
Run (verb)
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.”
Run (verb)
To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
Run (verb)
To speedrun.
Run (verb)
past participle of rin
Run (noun)
Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
“I just got back from my morning run.”
Run (noun)
Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) not necessarily by foot; dash or errand, trip.
“I need to make a run to the store.”
Run (noun)
A pleasure trip.
“Let’s go for a run in the car.”
Run (noun)
Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
Run (noun)
Migration of fish.
Run (noun)
A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
Run (noun)
A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
Run (noun)
A (regular) trip or route.
“The bus on the Cherry Street run is always crowded.”
Run (noun)
The route taken while running or skiing.
“Which run did you do today?”
Run (noun)
The distance sailed by a ship.
“a good run; a run of fifty miles”
Run (noun)
A voyage.
“a run to China”
Run (noun)
An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
“He set up a rabbit run.”
Run (noun)
Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
Run (noun)
State of being current; currency; popularity.
Run (noun)
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.”
Run (noun)
A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
Run (noun)
A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
Run (noun)
A trial.
“The data got lost, so I’ll have to perform another run of the experiment.”
Run (noun)
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”
Run (noun)
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”.”
Run (noun)
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.”
Run (noun)
The length of a 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.”
Run (noun)
A quick pace, faster than a walk.
“He broke into a run.”
Run (noun)
A series of tries in a game that were successful.
Run (noun)
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.”
Run (noun)
Any sudden large demand for something.
“There was a run on Christmas presents.”
Run (noun)
The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
Run (noun)
The horizontal length of a set of stairs
Run (noun)
A standard or unexceptional group or category.
“He stood out from the usual run of applicants.”
Run (noun)
The act of a runner making it around all the bases and over home plate; the point scored for this.
Run (noun)
The act of passing from one wicket to another; the point scored for this.
Run (noun)
A gain of a (specified) distance; a running play.
“… one of the greatest runs of all time.”
Run (noun)
A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
“I have a run in my stocking.”
Run (noun)
The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
Run (noun)
Horizontal dimension of a slope.
Run (noun)
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.
Run (noun)
A pair or set of millstones.
Run (noun)
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.”
Run (noun)
A playthrough.
“This was my first successful run without losing any health.”
Run (noun)
A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
Run (noun)
The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
Run (noun)
The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
Run (noun)
An attempt at a game, especially a speedrun.
Run (noun)
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“He can have the run of the house.”
Run (adjective)
In a liquid state; melted or molten.
“Put some run butter on the vegetables.”
Run (adjective)
Cast in a mould.
Run (adjective)
Exhausted; depleted especially with “down” or “out”.
Run (adjective)
Travelled, run.
Run (adjective)
Smuggled.
“run brandy”
Dap (verb)
fish by letting the fly (but not the line) bob lightly on the water
“he was dapping the fly skilfully”
“dapping was almost a sure-fire method”
Dap (noun)
a fishing fly used when dapping
“most of the fish are being taken on the dap”
Dap (noun)
rubber-soled shoes
“hi-hats and daps are the order of the day”
Dap (noun)
an elaborate handshake that typically involving slapping palms, bumping fists, or snapping fingers
“Lance stopped to sign autographs and give dap to folks”
“I knew I had done something right when one of the students put out his hand for some dap”
“everybody laughed and gave daps and high fives”