different between lag vs run

English

Etymology

Origin uncertain, perhaps a dialectal adjective lag distorted from last, or of North Germanic origin, related to Norwegian lagga (“to go slowly”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /læ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Adjective

lag

1. late
2. (obsolete) Last; long-delayed.
3. Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
   • 1690, John Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal

     We know your thoughts of us, that laymen are lag souls, and rubbish of remaining clay.

Translations

Noun

lag (countable and uncountable, plural lags)

1. (countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
   • 2004, May 10. The New Yorker Online,

     During the Second World War, for instance, the Washington Senators had a starting rotation that included four knuckleball pitchers. But, still, I think that some of that was just a generational lag.

2. (uncountable) Delay; latency.
   • 2001, Patricia M. Wallace, The psychology of the Internet

     When the lag is low, 2 or 3 seconds perhaps, Internet chatters seem reasonably content.

   • 2002, Marty Cortinas, Clifford Colby, The Macintosh bible

     Latency, or lag, is an unavoidable part of Internet gaming.

3. (Britain, slang, archaic) One sentenced to transportation for a crime.
4. (Britain, slang) a prisoner, a criminal.
   • 1934, P. G. Wodehouse, Thank You, Jeeves

     On both these occasions I had ended up behind the bars, and you might suppose that an old lag like myself would have been getting used to it by now.
5. (snooker) A method of deciding which player shall start. Both players simultaneously strike a cue ball from the baulk line to hit the top cushion and rebound down the table; the player whose ball finishes closest to the baulk cushion wins.
6. One who lags; that which comes in last.
7. The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
8. A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (engineering) one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, such as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or steam engine.
9. A bird, the greylag.

Usage notes

In casual use, lag and latency are used synonymously for "time delay between initiating an action and the effect", with lag being more casual. In formal use, latency is the technical term, while lag is used when latency is greater than usual, particularly in internet gaming. When used as a comparative to refer to the distance between moving objects lag refers to a moving object that has not yet reached the reference object position, whether linear or rotational. The term latency is not used in technical jargon for linear or rotational distance. The neutral term displacement can be used ambiguously and may refer to the distance between objects without indicating direction. In this use, lag, lags, and lagging are the complements of lead, leads, and leading. For example, For any AC power system, at all reactive loads, the current waveform has a phase displacement or power factor to the voltage. An inductive load has a lagging power factor, while a capacitive load has a leading PF.

Synonyms

• (delay): latency

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Finnish: lagi
• ? Swedish: lagg n

Translations

Verb

lag (third-person singular simple present lags, present participle lagging, simple past and past participle lagged)

1. to fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Canto I

     Behind her farre away a Dwarfe did lag, / That lasie seemd in being ever last, / Or wearied with bearing of her bag / Of needments at his backe.

   • 1717, The Metamorphoses of Ovid translated into English verse under the direction of Sir Samuel Garth by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, William Congreve and other eminent hands

     While he, whose tardy feet had lagg'd behind, / Was doom'd the sad reward of death to find.

   • 2004, — The New Yorker, 5 April 2004

     Over the next fifty years, by most indicators dear to economists, the country remained the richest in the world. But by another set of numbers—longevity and income inequality—it began to lag behind Northern Europe and Japan.

2. to cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material (referring to a time lag effect in thermal transfer)
   • c. 1974, Philip Larkin, The Building

     Outside seems old enough: / Red brick, lagged pipes, and someone walking by it / Out to the car park, free.

3. (Britain, slang, archaic) To transport as a punishment for crime.
   • 1847, Thomas De Quincey, Secret Societies"

     She lags us if we poach.

4. (Britain, slang, archaic) To arrest or apprehend.
5. (transitive) To cause to lag; to slacken.
   • 1632, Thomas Heywood, The Iron Age

     The weight would lagge thee that art wont to flye.

Descendants

• ? Swedish: lagga

Translations

Derived terms

• lagging
• lag behind

See also

• tardy

Further reading

• Latency (engineering) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Building insulation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Jet lag on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Turbo lag on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• AGL, ALG, Alg., GAL, GLA, Gal, Gal., LGA, gal, gal., ?Gal

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch lachen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/

Verb

lag (present lag, present participle laggende, past participle gelag)

1. to laugh

Related terms

• glimlag

Albanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *lauga, from Proto-Indo-European *lowg- (compare Old Norse laug (“hot spring, bath”), Latvian luga (“marshy deposit, silt”), Serbo-Croatian l?ža (“puddle, pool”)).

Verb

lag (first-person singular past tense laga, participle lagur)

1. to wet, moisten
2. (colloquial) to water
3. (geography) to wash land (of a body of water)

Derived terms

• lagë
• lagësht
• lagështirë
• lëgatë
• lagaterë
• lug
• lagëtur

Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *lag-, from Proto-Indo-European *leg?- (“to lay, lie (down)”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (lókhos, “ambush, ambuscade, armed band”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (lagjan, “to lay”). Singular form of lagje.

Noun

lag m

1. troop, band, encampment

Related terms

• lagje
• log

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse lag, from Proto-Germanic *lag?. Doublet of lav (“guild”) and lov (“law”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la???/, [læ?j], [læ?]
• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

lag n (singular definite laget, plural indefinite lag)

1. layer, coat (a coherent mass spread on the top or on the outside of something else)
2. (sociology) class, stratum (class of society with similar status)
3. (geology) stratum (layer of sedimentary rock)

Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?x
• IPA^(key): /l?x/
• Homophones: lach

Verb

lag

1. singular past indicative of liggen

Anagrams

• alg, gal

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse lag

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?a?/
• Rhymes: -?a?
• Homophones: lað, læ, læð

Noun

lag n (genitive singular lags, plural løg)

1. layer
2. (in compounds) what belongs together (company, union)
3. regularity, order
4. skill, capability

   hann hevur gott lag á tí.

   he has good skills in that

5. method, system
6. importance

   tað liggur einki lag á.

   This is not important.

7. mood

   tað er einki lag á honum.

   He is in a bad mood.

8. design, shape
9. melody

Declension

Derived terms

• andalag
• arbeiðslag
• eyðkennislag
• ferðalag
• felag
• grundarlag
• havnarlag
• hjúnalag
• huglag
• í lagi
• jarðlag
• ljóðlag
• niðurlag
• parlag
• rakstrarlag
• sólarlag
• stiglag
• stjórnarlag
• tjóðlag
• undirlag
• veðurlag
• yrkingarlag
• ørindislag

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?k

Verb

lag

1. first/third-person singular preterite of liegen

Gothic

Romanization

lag

1. Romanization of ????????????

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse lag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la??/ ()
• Rhymes: -a??

Noun

lag n (genitive singular lags, nominative plural lög)

1. layer
2. (geology) stratum
3. tune, song
4. order
5. thrust, stab
6. good method, knack

Declension

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish lac, from Proto-Celtic *laggos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh?g-, compare English slack and Latin laxus (“slack”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): /l????/
• (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /l??a?/

Adjective

lag (genitive singular masculine laig, genitive singular feminine laige, plural laga, comparative laige)

1. weak

Declension

Maltese

Etymology

From Sicilian lagu, from Latin lacus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la?k/

Noun

lag m (plural lagi)

1. lake

   Synonym: g?adira

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse lag

Noun

lag n (definite singular laget, indefinite plural lag, definite plural laga or lagene)

1. layer

   "Denne sjokoladen har et lag med hvitt lag utenpå." (This chocolate has a white outer layer.)

2. team (group of people)

3. (rare, especially outside stock phrases) mood; very frequently found in the definite ("laget"), often preceded by "godt" (see below)

   "Han er i godt lag i dag." (He's having a good day. / He's happy. / He's happy today.)

4. (quite rare) party; found mainly in the phrase "godt lag" meaning "good people", "good company" or "good party"

   "I godt lag spiller det ingen rolle hva man feirer, hvor eller hvordan." (Surrounded by friendly/good/nice people, it doesn't matter why you are celebrating, or where or how.)

5. (military) a squad

Synonyms

• (sense 2) team

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

lag

1. imperative of lage

References

• “lag” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse lag, from Proto-Germanic *lag?.

Noun

lag n (definite singular laget, indefinite plural lag, definite plural laga)

1. layer
2. team (group of people)
3. mood
4. (military) a squad

Synonyms

• (sense 2) team

Derived terms

Verb

lag

1. imperative of laga

References

• “lag” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lag?, from Proto-Indo-European *leg?-.

Noun

lag n (genitive lags, plural l?g)

1. stratum, layer
2. due place, right position
3. companionship, fellowship
4. living together
5. cohabitation
6. market price, tax
7. thrust, stab (with a knife, sword or spear)
8. air, tune

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• laga
• leggja
• liggja

Descendants

• Icelandic: lag n; lög n pl
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lag n; lov f

References

• lag in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *l?gaz (“low”).

Adjective

l?g (comparative l?giro, superlative l?gist)

1. low

Declension

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan) laitg
• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) lai
• (Puter) lej

Etymology

From Latin lacus, from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).

Noun

lag m (plural lags)

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) lake

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish lac (“weak”)

Adjective

lag

1. weak, feeble

Derived terms

• deoch-lag

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l???/
• Rhymes: -???

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish lagh, from Old Norse l?g. Cognate with Danish lov, Norwegian lov, English law.Related to Old Norse leggja “to define”.

Noun

lag c

1. a law; a written or understood rule that concerns behaviours and the appropriate consequences thereof. Laws are usually associated with mores.
2. law; the body of written rules governing a society.
3. a law; a one-sided contract.
4. a law; an observed physical law.
5. (mathematics) a law; a statement that is true under specified conditions.

Usage notes

• In the expression vara någon till lags (“to be of service to someone”), this is an ancient genitive controlled by the preposition till (“to”)

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• juridik

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish lagher, from Old Norse l?gr, from Proto-Germanic *laguz, from Proto-Indo-European *lakw-.Cognate with Latin lacus.

Noun

lag c

1. (cooking) a water-based solution of sugar, salt and/or other spices; e.g. brine

Declension

Related terms

• saltlag
• sockerlag
• ättikslag

Etymology 3

From Old Swedish lagh, from Old Norse lag. Derived from Old Norse leggja (“to lay”) or liggja (“to lie”).

Noun

lag n

1. a workgroup, a team; group of people which in sports compete together versus another team; or in general, work closely together

Declension

Derived terms

References

• lag in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• alg, gal

Tagakaulu Kalagan

Noun

lag

1. wild cat

Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From Old Norse l?gr, from Proto-Germanic *laguz, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pond.”)

Noun

lag m (definite lagjän)

1. liquid, decoction of something

Derived terms

• genlag

Etymology 2

From Old Norse lag n (“stratum, layer; due place; fellowship; cohabitation; etc.,”) pl l?g (“law, laws; participation or fellowship in law,”) from Proto-Germanic *lag?, from Proto-Indo-European *leg?- (“to lie down.”)

Noun

lag n (definite lagjä)

1. layer
2. the hay in the barn or the unthreshed grain, or the straw thereof

   Bär mäg hit’n knipp bothti halm-lage

   Carry to me a bundle of the straw lying in the barn!

3. gathering, company

Noun

lag f (definite laga)

1. law

Usage notes

Neuter definite plural laga and feminine definite singular laga are not distinguishable in form, but only through surrounding grammar.

Derived terms

• gravölslag
• i lag
• lagbok
• lawi

English

Alternative forms

• rin (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English runnen, rennen (“to run”), alteration (due to the past participle runne, runnen,yronne) of Middle English rinnen (“to run”), from Old English rinnan, iernan (“to run”) and Old Norse rinna (“to run”), both from Proto-Germanic *rinnan? (“to run”) (compare also *rannijan? (“to make run”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h?reyH- (“to boil, churn”). Cognate with Scots rin (“to run”), West Frisian rinne (“to walk, march”), Dutch rennen (“to run, race”), German rennen (“to run, race”), rinnen (“to flow”), Danish rende (“to run”), Swedish ränna (“to run”), Icelandic renna (“to flow”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian rend (“to run, run after”). See random.

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /??n/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /??n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Verb

run (third-person singular simple present runs, present participle running, simple past ran, past participle run)

1. To move swiftly.
   1. (intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.)
      • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:run.
   2. (intransitive) To go at a fast pace, to move quickly.

   3. (transitive) To cause to move quickly or lightly.
   4. (transitive) To transport someone or something, notionally at a brisk pace.

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

   6. (intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
   7. (American football, transitive or intransitive) To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
   8. (transitive) To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.

   9. (intransitive) To flee from a danger or towards help.

   10. (figuratively, transitive) To go through without stopping, usually illegally.

   11. (transitive, juggling, colloquial) To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
2. (fluids) To flow.
   1. (intransitive) Of a liquid, to flow.

   2. (intransitive, figuratively) To move or spread quickly.

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

   4. (transitive) To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from an object.

   5. (intransitive) To become liquid; to melt.
   6. (intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).

   7. To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
3. (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
4. (transitive) To control or manage, be in charge of.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:run.
5. (intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.

6. To make participate in certain kinds of competitions
   1. (transitive) To make run in a race.

   2. (transitive) To make run in an election.

7. To exert continuous activity; to proceed.

8. (intransitive) To be presented in the media.

9. (transitive) To print or broadcast in the media.

10. (transitive) To smuggle (illegal goods).
11. (transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.

12. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
    1. (intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).

    2. (intransitive) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).

    3. (transitive) To make something extend in space.

    4. (intransitive) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.

    5. (transitive) To make a machine operate.

13. (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.

14. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
15. (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
    • 1968, Paul Simon, The Boxer (song)

      I was no more than a boy / In the company of strangers / In the quiet of the railway station / Running scared.

    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:run.
16. (transitive) To cost a large amount of money.

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

18. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
19. To cause to enter; to thrust.
    • There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs; […].

    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:run.
20. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.

    • They ran the ship aground.
21. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.

22. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
    • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Friendship

      He runneth two dangers.

23. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.

    • He would himself be in the Highlands to receive them, and run his fortune with them.

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.

27. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:run.
28. (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
    • Neither was he ignorant what report ran of himselfe.

29. To have growth or development.

    • or the Richness of the Ground cause them [turnips] to run too much to Leaves

30. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
    • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Nature In Men

      A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
31. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
    • c. 1665, Josiah Child, Discourse on Trade

      Customs run only upon our goods imported or exported, and that but once for all; whereas interest runs as well upon our ships as goods, and must be yearly paid.

32. To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
    • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, I.8:

      Don't let me run the fate of all who show indulgence to your sex […].

33. (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
34. (video games, rare) To speedrun.

Conjugation

Derived terms

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Translations

Noun

run (plural runs)

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

   I just got back from my morning run.
2. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily on foot); dash or errand, trip.
   • 1759, N. Tindal, The Continuation of Mr Rapin's History of England, volume 21 (continuation volume 9), page 92:

     […] and on the 18th of January this squadron put to sea. The first place of rendezvous was the boy of port St. Julian, upon the coast of Patagonia, and all accidents were provided against with admirable foresight. Their run to port St. Julian was dangerous […]

   I need to make a run to the store.

3. A pleasure trip.

   Let's go for a run in the car.

   • And I think of giving her a run in London for a change.

4. Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
5. Migration (of fish).
6. A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
7. A literal or figurative path or course for movement relating to:
   1. A (regular) trip or route.

      The bus on the Cherry Street run is always crowded.

      • 1977, Star Wars (film)

        You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon? It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.

   2. The route taken while running or skiing.

      Which run did you do today?

   3. (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
   4. The distance sailed by a ship.

      a good run; a run of fifty miles

   5. A voyage.

      a run to China

   6. A trial.

      The data got lost, so I'll have to perform another run of the experiment.

   7. (mathematics, computing) 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.

   8. (video games) A playthrough, or attempted playthrough; a session of play.

      This was my first successful run without losing any health.

8. Unrestricted use. Only used in have the run of.

   He can have the run of the house.

9. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.

   He set up a rabbit run.

10. (Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
11. State of being current; currency; popularity.
    • Template:RQ:Addison Freeloader

      It is impossible for detached papers[...] to have a general run, or long continuance, if they are not diversified[...].

12. Continuous or sequential
    1. 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.

       • 1796, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace

         They who made their arrangements in the first run of misadventure [...] put a seal on their calamities.
    2. A series of tries in a game that were successful.
    3. 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.

    4. The period of 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.
    5. (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
       • 1964 : Heroin by The Velvet Underground

         And I'll tell ya, things aren't quite the same / When I'm rushing on my run.

       • 1975, Lloyd Y. Young, Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, Brian S. Katcher, Applied Therapeutics for Clinical Pharmacists

         Frank Fixwell, a 25 year-old male, has been on a heroin "run" (daily use) for the past two years.

       • 1977, Richard P. Rettig, Manual J. Torres, Gerald R. Garrett, Manny: a criminal-addict's story, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) ?ISBN

         I was hooked on dope, and hooked bad, during this whole period, but I was also hooked behind robbery. When you're on a heroin run, you stay loaded so long as you can score.

       • 2001, Robin J. Harman, Handbook of Pharmacy Health Education, Pharmaceutical Press ?ISBN, page 172

         This can develop quite quickly (over a matter of hours) during a cocaine run or when cocaine use becomes a daily habit.

       • 2010, Robert DuPont, The Selfish Brain: Learning from Addiction, Hazelden Publishing ?ISBN, page 158

         DA depletion leads to the crash that characteristically ends a cocaine run.

    6. (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
    7. (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
13. 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

14. (chiefly eastern Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) 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".

15. A quick pace, faster than a walk.

    He broke into a run.

    1. (of horses) A fast gallop.
16. 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.

17. Any sudden large demand for something.

    There was a run on Christmas presents.

18. Various horizontal dimensions or surfaces
    1. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
    2. The horizontal length of a set of stairs
    3. (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
19. A standard or unexceptional group or category.

    He stood out from the usual run of applicants.

20. In sports
    1. (baseball) A score when a runner touches all bases legally; the act of a runner scoring.
    2. (cricket) The act of passing from one wicket to another; the point scored for this.
    3. (American football) A running play.

       [...] one of the greatest runs of all time.
    4. (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
    5. (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
    6. The distance drilled with a bit, in oil drilling.
       • 1832, Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court (page 21)

         Well, when you compare the cone type with the cross roller bit, you get a longer run, there is less tendency of the bit to go flat while running in various formations. It cleans itself better.

22. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.

    I have a run in my stocking.

23. (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
24. (mining) 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.
25. A pair or set of millstones.

Synonyms

• (horizontal part of a step): tread
• (unravelling): ladder (British)
• (computing): execute, start
• See also Thesaurus:walk

Antonyms

• (horizontal part of a step): rise, riser
• (horizontal distance of a set of stairs): rise

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• (computer science): trajectory

Adjective

run (not comparable)

1. In a liquid state; melted or molten.

   Put some run butter on the vegetables.

   • 1921, L. W. Ferris, H. W. Redfield and W. R. North, The Volatile Acids and the Volatile Oxidizable Substances of Cream and Experimental Butter, in the Journal of Dairy Science, volume 4 (1921), page 522:

     Samples of the regular run butter were sealed in 1 pound tins and sent to Washington, where the butter was scored and examined.

2. Cast in a mould.
   • 1833, The Cabinet Cyclopaedia: A treatise on the progressive improvement and present state of the Manufactures in Metal, volume 2, Iron and Steel (printed in London), page 314:

     Vast quantities are cast in sand moulds, with that kind of run steel which is so largely used in the production of common table-knives and forks.

   • c. 1839, (Richard of Raindale, The Plan of my House vindicated, quoted by) T. T. B. in the Dwelling of Richard of Raindale, King of the Moors, published in The Mirror, number 966, 7 September 1839, page 153:

     For making tea I have a kettle,

     Besides a pan made of run metal;

     An old arm-chair, in which I sit well —

     The back is round.

3. Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
4. (of a zoology) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.
   • 1889, Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell, Fishing: Salmon and Trout, fifth edition, page 185:

     The temperature of the water is consequently much higher than in either England or Scotland, and many newly run salmon will be found in early spring in the upper waters of Irish rivers where obstructions exist.

   • 2005, Rod Sutterby, Malcolm Greenhalgh, Atlantic Salmon: An Illustrated Natural History, page 86:

     Thus, on almost any day of the year, a fresh-run salmon may be caught legally somewhere in the British Isles.

5. Smuggled.

   run brandy

Verb

run

1. past participle of rin

Anagrams

• Nur, URN, nur, urn

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

run

1. first-person singular present indicative of runnen
2. imperative of runnen

Gothic

Romanization

run

1. Romanization of ????????????

Mandarin

Romanization

run

1. Nonstandard spelling of rún.
2. Nonstandard spelling of rùn.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

run m (plural runs)

1. (nautical) beam (of a ship)

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *r?n?. Cognate with the Old Saxon r?na, Old High German r?na (German Raun), Old Norse rún, and Gothic ???????????????? (runa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ru?n/

Noun

r?n f

1. whisper
2. rune
3. mystery, secret
4. advice
5. writing

Declension

Derived terms

• ?er?ne
• r?nere
• r?nian

Descendants

• Middle English: roun
  • Scots: rune, roun, round
  • English: roun, round

See also

• dierne (adjective)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /run/

Noun

run n

1. genitive plural of runo

Noun

run f

1. genitive plural of runa

Further reading

• run in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *-ru?n.

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [zun??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [?un??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [??w??m??]

Verb

run • (?, ?, ?, ????)

1. to tremble, to shiver (due to cold)

Derived terms

Related terms

• rung (“to shake”)