The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
RUNNING
running
(adjective) continually repeated over a period of time; “a running joke among us”
running
(adjective) executed or initiated by running; “running plays worked better than pass plays”; “took a running jump”; “a running start”
running
(adjective) (of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream; “as mountain stream with freely running water”; “hovels without running water”
running
(adjective) of advancing the ball by running; “the team’s running plays worked better than its pass plays”
linear, running
(adjective) measured lengthwise; “cost of lumber per running foot”
run, running
(noun) the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace; “he broke into a run”; “his daily run keeps him fit”
track, running
(noun) the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track
run, running, running play, running game
(noun) (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team; “the defensive line braced to stop the run”; “the coach put great emphasis on running”
running
(noun) the act of administering or being in charge of something; “he has responsibility for the running of two companies at the same time”
running
(noun) the state of being in operation; “a running engine”
RUN
run, unravel
(verb) become undone; “the sweater unraveled”
ladder, run
(verb) come unraveled or undone as if by snagging; “Her nylons were running”
melt, run, melt down
(verb) reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating; “melt butter”; “melt down gold”; “The wax melted in the sun”
run
(verb) cause to perform; “run a subject”; “run a process”
move, go, run
(verb) progress by being changed; “The speech has to go through several more drafts”; “run through your presentation before the meeting”
run
(verb) change from one state to another; “run amok”; “run rogue”; “run riot”
race, run
(verb) compete in a race; “he is running the Marathon this year”; “let’s race and see who gets there first”
campaign, run
(verb) run, stand, or compete for an office or a position; “Who’s running for treasurer this year?”
hunt, run, hunt down, track down
(verb) pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); “Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland”; “The dogs are running deer”; “The Duke hunted in these woods”
guide, run, draw, pass
(verb) pass over, across, or through; “He ran his eyes over her body”; “She ran her fingers along the carved figurine”; “He drew her hair through his fingers”
function, work, operate, go, run
(verb) perform as expected when applied; “The washing machine won’t go unless it’s plugged in”; “Does this old car still run well?”; “This old radio doesn’t work anymore”
run
(verb) be operating, running or functioning; “The car is still running--turn it off!”
run
(verb) carry out; “run an errand”
play, run
(verb) cause to emit recorded audio or video; “They ran the tapes over and over again”; “I’ll play you my favorite record”; “He never tires of playing that video”
carry, run
(verb) include as the content; broadcast or publicize; “We ran the ad three times”; “This paper carries a restaurant review”; “All major networks carried the press conference”
ply, run
(verb) travel a route regularly; “Ships ply the waters near the coast”
run
(verb) cover by running; run a certain distance; “She ran 10 miles that day”
run
(verb) move fast by using one’s feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time; “Don’t run--you’ll be out of breath”; “The children ran to the store”
run
(verb) run with the ball; in such sports as football
run, consort
(verb) keep company; “the heifers run with the bulls to produce offspring”
run
(verb) sail before the wind
run, bleed
(verb) be diffused; “These dyes and colors are guaranteed not to run”
run, flow, feed, course
(verb) move along, of liquids; “Water flowed into the cave”; “the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi”
scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away
(verb) flee; take to one’s heels; cut and run; “If you see this man, run!”; “The burglars escaped before the police showed up”
run, black market
(verb) deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor
run
(verb) set animals loose to graze
operate, run
(verb) direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.; “She is running a relief operation in the Sudan”
run
(verb) make without a miss
run, execute
(verb) carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine; “Run the dishwasher”; “run a new program on the Mac”; “the computer executed the instruction”
run
(verb) occur persistently; “Musical talent runs in the family”
prevail, persist, die hard, run, endure
(verb) continue to exist; “These stories die hard”; “The legend of Elvis endures”
run, run for
(verb) extend or continue for a certain period of time; “The film runs 5 hours”
run, go, pass, lead, extend
(verb) stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point; “Service runs all the way to Cranbury”; “His knowledge doesn’t go very far”; “My memory extends back to my fourth year of life”; “The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets”
run, lead
(verb) cause something to pass or lead somewhere; “Run the wire behind the cabinet”
tend, be given, lean, incline, run
(verb) have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined; “She tends to be nervous before her lectures”; “These dresses run small”; “He inclined to corpulence”
run
(verb) be affected by; be subjected to; “run a temperature”; “run a risk”
run, go
(verb) have a particular form; “the story or argument runs as follows”; “as the saying goes...”
range, run
(verb) change or be different within limits; “Estimates for the losses in the earthquake range as high as $2 billion”; “Interest rates run from 5 to 10 percent”; “The instruments ranged from tuba to cymbals”; “My students range from very bright to dull”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
running (not comparable)
Moving or advancing at a run.
Of a horse, having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
Present, current.
Flowing; easy; cursive.
Continuous; ongoing; keeping along step by step.
Having a continuous design or pattern.
Consecutive.
(botany) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.
(medicine) Discharging pus.
(of a nose) Discharging snot or mucus.
Synonyms
• (nose): runny
Hyponyms
• long-running
Adverb
running (not comparable)
(informal) consecutively; in a row
Noun
running (countable and uncountable, plural runnings)
The action of the verb to run.
The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason
That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.
The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
Verb
running
present participle of run
Preposition
running
(colloquial) Approaching; about; roughly.
Proper noun
Running (plural Runnings)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Running is the 19105th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1424 individuals. Running is most common among White (91.71%) individuals.
Source: Wiktionary
Run"ning, a.
1. Moving or advancing by running. Specifically, of a horse; (a) Having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer. (b) trained and kept for running races; as, a running horse. Law.
2. Successive; one following the other without break or intervention;
– said of periods of time; as, to be away two days running; to sow land two years running.
3. Flowing; easy; cursive; as, a running hand.
4. Continuous; keeping along step by step; as, he stated the facts with a running explanation. "A running conquest." Milton. What are art and science if not a running commentary on Nature Hare.
5. (Bot.)
Definition: Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem; as, a running vine.
6. (med.)
Definition: Discharging pus; as, a running sore. Running block (Mech.), a block in an arrangement of pulleys which rises or sinks with the weight which is raised or lowered.
– Running board, a narrow platform extending along the side of a locomotive.
– Running bowsprit (Naut.) Same as Reefing bowsprit.
– Running days (Com.), the consecutive days occupied on a voyage under working days. Simmonds.
– Running fire, a constant fire of musketry or cannon.
– Running gear, the wheels and axles of a vehicle, and their attachments, in distinction from the body; all the working parts of a locomotive or other machine, in distinction from the framework.
– Running hand, a style of rapid writing in which the letters are usually slanted and the words formed without lifting the pen; -- distinguished from round hand.
– Running part (Naut.), that part of a rope that is hauled upon, -- in distinction from the standing part.
– Running rigging (Naut.), that part of a ship's rigging or ropes which passes through blocks, etc.; -- is distinction from standing rigging.
– Running title (Print.), the title of a book or chapter continued from page to page on the upper margin.
Run"ning, n.
Definition: The act of one who, or of that which runs; as, the running was slow.
2. That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation; as, the first running of a still.
3. The discharge from an ulcer or other sore. At long running, in the long run. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
RUN
Run, v. i. [imp. Ran or Run; p. p. Run; p. pr. & vb. n. Running.] Etym: [OE. rinnen, rennen (imp. ran, p.p. runnen, ronnen). AS. rinnan to flow (imp. ran, p.p. gerunnen), and iernan, irnan, to run (imp. orn, arn, earn, p.p. urnen); akin to D. runnen, renne, OS. & OHG. rinnan, G. rinnen, rennen, Icel. renna, rinna, Sw. rinna, ränna, Dan. rinde, rende, Goth. rinnan, and perh. to L. oriri to rise, Gr. Origin), or perh. to L. rivus brook (cf. Rival). *11. Cf. Ember, a., Rennet.]
1. To move, proceed, advance, pass, go, come, etc., swiftly, smoothly, or with quick action; -- said of things animate or inanimate. Hence, to flow, glide, or roll onward, as a stream, a snake, a wagon, etc.; to move by quicker action than in walking, as a person, a horse, a dog. Specifically: --
2. Of voluntary or personal action: (a) To go swiftly; to pass at a swift pace; to hasten. "Ha, ha, the fox!" and after him they ran. Chaucer.
(b) To flee, as from fear or danger. As from a bear a man would run for life. Shak.
(c) To steal off; to depart secretly. My conscience will serve me to run from this jew. Shak.
(d) To contend in a race; hence, to enter into a contest; to become a candidate; as, to run for Congress. Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize So run, that ye may obtain. 1 Cor. ix. 24.
(e) To pass from one state or condition to another; to come into a certain condition; -- often with in or into; as, to run into evil practices; to run in debt. Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast, to rend my heart with grief and run distracted Addison.
(f) To exert continuous activity; to proceed; as, to run through life; to run in a circle. (g) To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation; as, to run from one subject to another. Virgil, in his first Georgic, has run into a set of precepts foreign to his subject. Addison.
(h) To discuss; to continue to think or speak about something; -- with on. (i) To make numerous drafts or demands for payment, as upon a bank; - - with on. (j) To creep, as serpents.
3. Of involuntary motion: (a) To flow, as a liquid; to ascend or descend; to course; as, rivers run to the sea; sap runs up in the spring; her blood ran cold. (b) To proceed along a surface; to extend; to spread. The fire ran along upon the ground. Ex. ix. 23.
(c) To become fluid; to melt; to fuse. As wax dissolves, as ice begins to run. Addison. Sussex iron ores run freely in the fire. Woodward.
(d) To turn, as a wheel; to revolve on an axis or pivot; as, a wheel runs swiftly round. (e) To travel; to make progress; to be moved by mechanical means; to go; as, the steamboat runs regularly to Albany; the train runs to Chicago. (f) To extend; to reach; as, the road runs from Philadelphia to New York; the memory of man runneth not the contrary. She saw with joy the line immortal run, Each sire impressed, and glaring in his son. Pope.
(g) To go back and forth from place to place; to ply; as, the stage runs between the hotel and the station. (h) To make progress; to proceed; to pass. As fast as our time runs, we should be very glad in most part of our lives that it ran much faster. Addison.
(i) To continue in operation; to be kept in action or motion; as, this engine runs night and day; the mill runs six days in the week. When we desire anything, our minds run wholly on the good circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones. Swift.
(j) To have a course or direction; as, a line runs east and west. Where the generally allowed practice runs counter to it. Locke. Little is the wisdom, where the flight So runs against all reason. Shak.
(k) To be in form thus, as a combination of words. The king's ordinary style runneth, "Our sovereign lord the king." Bp. Sanderson.
(l) To be popularly known; to be generally received. Men gave them their own names, by which they run a great while in Rome. Sir W. Temple. Neither was he ignorant what report ran of himself. Knolle
(m) To have growth or development; as, boys and girls run up rapidly. if the richness of the ground cause turnips to run to leaves. Mortimer.
(n) To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds. Bacon. Temperate climates run into moderate governments. Swift.
(o) To spread and blend together; to unite; as, colors run in washing. In the middle of a rainbow the colors are . . . distinguished, but near the borders they run into one another. I. Watts.
(p) To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company; as, certain covenants run with the land. 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. Sir J. Child.
(q) To continue without falling due; to hold good; as, a note has thirty days to run. (r) To discharge pus or other matter; as, an ulcer runs. (s) To be played on the stage a number of successive days or nights; as, the piece ran for six months. (t) (Naut.) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing closehauled; -- said of vessels.
4. Specifically, of horse: To move rapidly in a gait in which each leg acts in turn as a propeller and a supporter, and in which for an instant all the limbs are gathered in the air under the body. Stillman (The Horse in Motion).
5. (Athletics)
Definition: To move rapidly by springing steps so that there is an instant in each step when neither foot touches the ground; -- so distinguished from walking in athletic competition. As thing run, according to the usual order, conditions, quality, etc.; on the average; without selection or specification.
– To let run (Naut.), to allow to pass or move freely; to slacken or loosen.
– To run after, to pursue or follow; to search for; to endeavor to find or obtain; as to run after similies. Locke.
– To run away, to flee; to escape; to elope; to run without control or guidance.
– To run away with. (a) To convey away hurriedly; to accompany in escape or elopement. (b) To drag rapidly and with violence; as, a horse runs away with a carriage.
– To run down. (a) To cease to work or operate on account of the exhaustion of the motive power; -- said of clocks, watches, etc. (b) To decline in condition; as, to run down in health.
– To run down a coast, to sail along it.
– To run for an office, to stand as a candidate for an office.
– To run in or into. (a) To enter; to step in. (b) To come in collision with.
– To run in trust, to run in debt; to get credit. [Obs.] -- To run in with. (a) To close; to comply; to agree with. [R.] T. Baker. (b) (Naut.) To make toward; to near; to sail close to; as, to run in with the land.
– To run mad, To run mad after or on. See under Mad.
– To run on. (a) To be continued; as, their accounts had run on for a year or two without a settlement. (b) To talk incessantly. (c) To continue a course. (d) To press with jokes or ridicule; to abuse with sarcasm; to bear hard on. (e) (Print.) To be continued in the same lines, without making a break or beginning a new paragraph.
– To run out. (a) To come to an end; to expire; as, the lease runs out Michaelmas. (b) To extend; to spread. "Insectile animals . . . run all out into legs." Hammond. (c) To expatiate; as, to run out into beautiful digressions. (d) To be wasted or exhausted; to become poor; to become extinct; as, an estate managed without economy will soon run out. And had her stock been less, no doubt She must have long ago run out. Dryden.
– To run over. (a) To overflow; as, a cup runs over, or the liquor runs over. (b) To go over, examine, or rehearse cursorily. (c) To ride or drive over; as, to run over a child.
– To run riot, to go to excess.
– To run through. (a) To go through hastily; as to run through a book. (b) To spend wastefully; as, to run through an estate.
– To run to seed, to expend or exhaust vitality in producing seed, as a plant; figuratively and colloquially, to cease growing; to lose vital force, as the body or mind.
– To run up, to rise; to swell; to grow; to increase; as, accounts of goods credited run up very fast. But these, having been untrimmed for many years, had run up into great bushes, or rather dwarf trees. Sir W. Scott.
– To run with. (a) To be drenched with, so that streams flow; as, the streets ran with blood. (b) To flow while charged with some foreign substance. "Its rivers ran with gold." J. H. Newman.
Run (, v. t.
1. To cause to run (in the various senses of Run, v. i.); as, to run a horse; to run a stage; to run a machine; to run a rope through a block.
2. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation. To run the world back to its first original. South. I would gladly understand the formation of a soul, and run it up to its "punctum saliens." Collier.
3. To cause to enter; to thrust; as, to run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into the foot. You run your head into the lion's mouth. Sir W. Scott. Having run his fingers through his hair. Dickens.
4. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven. They ran the ship aground. Acts xxvii. 41. A talkative person runs himself upon great inconveniences by blabbing out his own or other's secrets. Ray. Others, accustomed to retired speculations, run natural philosophy into metaphysical notions. Locke.
5. To fuse; to shape; to mold; to cast; as, to run bullets, and the like. The purest gold must be run and washed. Felton.
6. To cause to be draw; to mark out; to indicate; to determine; as, to run a line.
7. To cause to pass, to evade, offical restrictions; to smuggle; -- said of contraband or dutiable goods. heavy impositions . . . are a strong temptation of running goods. Swift.
8. To go through or accomplish by running; as, to run a race; to run a certain career.
9. To cause to stand as a candidate for office; to support for office; as, to run some one for Congress. [Colloq. U.S.]
10. To encounter or incur, as a danger or risk; as, to run the risk of losing one's life. See To run the chance, below. "He runneth two dangers." Bacon.
11. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk. He would himself be in the Highlands to receive them, and run his fortune with them. Clarendon.
12. To discharge; to emit; to give forth copiously; to be bathed with; as, the pipe or faucet runs hot water. At the base of Pompey's statua, Which all the while ran blood, great Cæsar fell. Shak.
13. To be charged with, or to contain much of, while flowing; as, the rivers ran blood.
14. To conduct; to manage; to carry on; as, to run a factory or a hotel. [Colloq. U.S.]
15. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule. [Colloq.]
16. To sew, as 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.
17. To migrate or move in schools; -- said of fish; esp., to ascend a river in order to spawn. To run a blockade, to get to, or away from, a blockaded port in safety.
– To run down. (a) (Hunting) To chase till the object pursued is captured or exhausted; as, to run down, a stag. (b) (Naut.) To run against and sink, as a vessel. (c) To crush; to overthrow; to overbear. "religion is run down by the license of these times." Berkeley. (d) To disparage; to traduce. F. W. Newman.
– To run hard. (a) To press in competition; as, to run one hard in a race. (b) To urge or press importunately. (c) To banter severely.
– To run into the ground, to carry to an absurd extreme; to overdo. [Slang, U.S.] -- To run off, to cause to flow away, as a charge of molten metal from a furnace.
– To run on (Print.), to carry on or continue, as the type for a new sentence, without making a break or commencing a new paragraph.
– To run out. (a) To thrust or push out; to extend. (b) To waste; to exhaust; as, to run out an estate. (c) (Baseball) To put out while running between two bases.
– To run the chances, or one's chances, to encounter all the risks of a certain course.
– To run through, to transfix; to pierce, as with a sword. "[He] was run through the body by the man who had asked his advice." Addison.
– To run up. (a) To thrust up, as anything long and slender. (b) To increase; to enlarge by additions, as an account.run up a bill (c) To erect hastily, as a building.
Run, n.
1. The act of running; as, a long run; a good run; a quick run; to go on the run.
2. A small stream; a brook; a creek.
3. That which runs or flows in the course of a certain operation, or during a certain time; as, a run of must in wine making; the first run of sap in a maple orchard.
4. A course; a series; that which continues in a certain course or series; as, a run of good or bad luck. They who made their arrangements in the first run of misadventure . . . put a seal on their calamities. Burke.
5. State of being current; currency; popularity. it is impossible for detached papers to have a general run, or long continuance, if not diversified with humor. Addison.
6. Continued repetition on the stage; -- said of a play; as, to have a run of a hundred successive nights. A canting, mawkish play . . . had an immense run. Macaulay.
7. A continuing urgent demand; especially, a pressure on a bank or treasury for payment of its notes.
8. A range or extent of ground for feeding stock; as, a sheep run. Howitt.
9. (Naut.) (a) The aftermost part of a vessel's hull where it narrows toward the stern, under the quarter (b) The distance sailed by a ship; as, a good run; a run of fifty miles. (c) A voyage; as, run to China.
10. A pleasure excursion; a trip. [Colloq.] A think of giving her a run in London. Dickens.
11. (Mining)
Definition: The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by license 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.
12. (Mus.)
Definition: A roulade, or series of running tones.
13. (Mil.)
Definition: The greatest degree of swiftness in marching. It is executed upon the same principles as the double-quick, but with greater speed.
14. The act of migrating, or ascending a river to spawn; -- said of fish; also, an assemblage or school of fishes which migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
15. In baseball, a complete circuit of the bases made by a player, which enables him to score one; in cricket, a passing from one wicket to the other, by which one point is scored; as, a player made three runs; the side went out with two hundred runs. The "runs" are made from wicket to wicket, the batsmen interchanging ends at each run. R. A. Proctor.
16. A pair or set of millstones. At the long run, now, commonly, In the long run, in or during the whole process or course of things taken together; in the final result; in the end; finally. [Man] starts the inferior of the brute animals, but he surpasses them in the long run. J. H. Newman.
– Home run. (a) A running or returning toward home, or to the point from which the start was made. Cf. Home stretch. (b) (Baseball) See under Home.
– The run, or The common run, etc., ordinary persons; the generality or average of people or things; also, that which ordinarily occurs; ordinary current, course, or kind. I saw nothing else that is superior to the common run of parks. Walpole. Burns never dreamed of looking down on others as beneath him, merely because he was conscious of his own vast superiority to the common run of men. Prof. Wilson. His whole appearance was something out of the common run. W. Irving.
– To let go by the run (Naut.), to loosen and let run freely, as lines; to let fall without restraint, as a sail.
Run, a.
1. Melted, or made from molten material; cast in a mold; as, run butter; run iron or lead.
2. Smuggled; as, run goods. [Colloq.] Miss Edgeworth. Run steel, malleable iron castings. See under Malleable. Raymond.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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