Значение run в русском языке

• 0 to move on your feet at a faster speed than walking

  • He can run very fast.

  • He ran away when I tried to pick him up.

  • [ + to do sth ] We had to run to catch up with him.

  • I run about three miles every morning.

• 1 to organize or control something

  • She ran her own restaurant for five years.

• 2 to take someone or something somewhere, usually by car

  • Could you run me to the station this afternoon?

• 3 If a piece of equipment is running, it is switched on and working, and if you run it, you switch it on and make it work.

  • The engine is running more smoothly now.

• 4 If you run a computer program, you use it on your computer.

  • Did you run a virus check this morning?

• 5 If trains or buses are running, they are available to travel on.

  • The buses only run until 11 p.m.

• 6 If liquid runs somewhere, it flows.

  • Tears ran down her face.

  • Have you got a tissue? My nose is running (= liquid is coming out of it).

• 7 to publish something in a newspaper or magazine

  • All the papers are running this story on the front page.

• 8 to fill a bath with water so that it is ready to use

• 9 to move something along, over, or through something else

  • She ran her fingers through her hair.

• 10 If something long and narrow runs somewhere, it is in that position.

  • There are wires running across the floor.

  • The road runs parallel to the railway line.

• 11 If a play, film, etc runs for a period of time, it continues that long.

  • The play ran for five months before moving to the West End.

• 12 If a quality, ability, disease, etc runs in the family, many members of the family have it.

  • A love of animals runs in our family.

• 13 If a colour runs, it comes out of some material when it is washed.

• 14 to be at a particular level

  • Inflation is now running at 5.8%.

• 15 the activity of running for a period of time

  • [ usually singular ] to go for a run

• 16 in cricket or baseball, a single point

  • to score a run

• 17 an occasion when you do something to practise it before the real time

• 18 several things of the same type that happen without something different happening during that period

  • a run of 10 games without a win

  • a run of good/bad luck

• 19 a period of performances of a play, film, etc

• 20 to be trying to avoid being caught, especially by the police

• 21 to suddenly run fast in order to escape from somewhere