run

Definitions

• To move swiftly.
• (fluids) To flow.
• (nautical) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
• (transitive) To control or manage, be in charge of.
• (intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.
• (transitive) To make run in a race or an election.
• To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
• (intransitive) To be presented in the media.
• (transitive) To print or broadcast in the media.
• (transitive) To smuggle (illegal goods).
• (transitive) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
• To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
• (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure or program.
• To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
• (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
• (transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
• (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
• To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
• To cause to enter; to thrust.
• To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
• To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
• To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
• To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
• To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
• 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.
• To control or have precedence in a card game.
• To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
• (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
• To have growth or development.
• To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
• To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
• To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
• (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
• (video games) To speedrun.