to run
- verb
- /rʌn/
- The train will run on time every morning at 8 AM.
- trains run
- lines run
- run on time
Examples
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Every week, the only project of its kind in the UK runs three hour-long hockey sessions in Gloucestershire.
Academic text (2008) -
The Unisyn fleet of vehicles ran seven days a week from 4 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Academic text (1999) -
And it used to run just about an hour and a half.
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Why would they run the trains?
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As with most other countries and regions, Japan runs a large trade surplus with Africa.
Academic text (1991) -
The new line is expected to open one month after Eurostar begins running through the Channel Tunnel.
Academic text (1993) -
The city's main train track runs in a northwest to southeast diagonal across the mainland.
Academic text (2008) -
Interstate 81 is a modern Eisenhower interstate that runs parallel to US-11, but traffic moves much faster on I-81.
Academic text (2012) -
Our city bus runs along this route every hour.
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The ferry runs between the island and the mainland every half hour.
Synonyms
To travel regularly along a set route, often carrying people or goods
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To feel very excited about something and then lose interest often
- Informal
Move quickly from place to place trying to solve many urgent problems
- Archaic
Act in a confused or uncontrolled way because of strong emotion
To support two opposite sides at the same time to please both
To support two opposite sides at the same time
Phrasal Verbs
- Informal
To damage something by using it too much or managing it badly
- Specialized
To move around all four bases on a baseball field to score, usually after hitting the ball
Compounds
A vehicle crash caused by a driver who leaves without helping or saying who they are
- Specialized
A run charged to the pitcher when the other team makes no fielding error or passed ball
- Specialized
The part of a plane's mission when it approaches a target and drops weapons on it
Many customers try to take out their money from a bank because they fear it will fail
- Specialized
Average number of runs a pitcher allows in nine innings, not counting runs after fielding mistakes
A sentence that joins more than one full idea without proper punctuation or connecting words
- Literature
The number of copies made for one edition of a magazine, book or newspaper
An early Civil War battle in Virginia where Confederate forces defeat Union troops
- Specialized
A score given to a batter when their hit lets another player reach home
- Jargon
A run scored because a defensive player made a mistake, not from the batter's play
A major early Civil War battle fought in July 1861 near Manassas, Virginia that the Confederate army won
- Jargon
The normal action during a game not counting set pieces like free kicks or penalties
- Jargon
An attempt to move the ball by running around the end of the line in American football
- Specialized
A problem that happens while a program is running because of wrong data or bad instructions
- Jargon
A set of newspaper or magazine copies with some pages changed for different areas
- Specialized
A loose mix of small stones and sand taken from a gravel pit and used as is
How Often
Surface Forms
Etymology
Run meaning to travel a route regularly comes from the basic sense 'to move along', so a train that 'runs' between cities follows that path again and again.