running

1. To move swiftly.
2. (fluids) To flow.
3. (of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
4. To control or manage, be in charge of.

   He is running the candidate's expensive campaign.

5. To be a candidate in an election.

   I have decided to run for governor of California.

6. To make run in a race or an election.

   He ran his best horse in the Derby.

7. To exert continuous activity; to proceed.

   to run through life; to run in a circle

8. To be presented in the media.

   Her picture ran on the front page of the newspaper.

9. To print or broadcast in the media.

   run a story; run an ad

10. To smuggle (illegal goods).

    to run guns; to run rum

11. To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.

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

12. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
13. To execute or carry out a plan, procedure or program.

    Don't run that software unless you have permission.

14. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.

    to run from one subject to another

15. To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).

    Our supplies are running low.

16. To cost a large amount of money.

    Buying a new laptop will run you a thousand dollars.

17. Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.

    My stocking is running.

18. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
19. To cause to enter; to thrust.

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

20. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
21. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.

    to run a line

22. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).

    to run the risk of losing one's life

23. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
24. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
25. 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.
26. To control or have precedence in a card game.

    Every three or four hands he would run the table.

27. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
28. To be popularly known; to be generally received.
29. To have growth or development.

    Boys and girls run up rapidly.

30. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
31. 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.

32. To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
33. To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
34. To speedrun.

1. The action of the verb to run.

   His running of the business leaves something to be desired.

2. The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason

   Running is good exercise.

3. 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

4. The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.

1. Moving or advancing at a run.
2. Present, current.

   running month

3. Flowing; easy; cursive.

   running handwriting

4. Continuous; ongoing; keeping along step by step.

   a running explanation

5. Having a continuous design or pattern.

   running bond; running ornament

6. Consecutive.
7. Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.

   a running vine

8. Discharging pus.

   a running sore

9. (of a nose) Discharging snot or mucus.

   a running nose

1. Consecutively; in a row

   Mom's strawberry jam won the blue ribbon at the Holland County Fair three years running.

preposition

Approaching; about; roughly.