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RUNNING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace
Example:
his daily run keeps him fit
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("running" is a kind of...):
locomotion; travel (self-propelled movement)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "running"):
Derivation:
run (move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track
Synonyms:
running; track
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("running" is a kind of...):
track and field (participating in athletic sports performed on a running track or on the field associated with it)
Holonyms ("running" is a part of...):
track meet (a track and field competition between two or more teams)
Derivation:
run (compete in a race)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team
Example:
the coach put great emphasis on running
Synonyms:
run; running; running game; running play
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("running" is a kind of...):
football play ((American football) a play by the offensive team)
Domain category:
American football; American football game (a game played by two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field 100 yards long; teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "running"):
draw; draw play ((American football) the quarterback moves back as if to pass and then hands the ball to the fullback who is running toward the line of scrimmage)
end run; sweep ((American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line)
return ((American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble)
reverse ((American football) a running play in which a back running in one direction hands the ball to a back running in the opposite direction)
rush; rushing ((American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line)
Derivation:
run (run with the ball; in such sports as football)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The act of administering or being in charge of something
Example:
he has responsibility for the running of two companies at the same time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("running" is a kind of...):
administration; disposal (a method of tending to or managing the affairs of a some group of people (especially the group's business affairs))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "running"):
administrivia (the tiresome but essential details that must be taken care of and tasks that must be performed in running an organization)
Derivation:
run (direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The state of being in operation
Example:
a running engine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("running" is a kind of...):
operation (the state of being in effect or being operative)
Derivation:
run (be operating, running or functioning)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Continually repeated over a period of time
Example:
a running joke among us
Classified under:
Similar:
continual (recurring regularly or frequently in a prolonged and closely spaced series)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing
Example:
a functional set of brakes
Synonyms:
functional; operative; running; working
Classified under:
Similar:
functioning (performing or able to perform its regular function)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Executed or initiated by running
Example:
a running start
Classified under:
Adjectives
Antonym:
standing (executed in or initiated from a standing position)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream
Example:
hovels without running water
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
gushing; pouring (flowing profusely)
jetting; spouting; spurting; squirting (propelled violently in a usually narrow stream)
Antonym:
standing ((of fluids) not moving or flowing)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Of advancing the ball by running
Example:
the team's running plays worked better than its pass plays
Classified under:
Adjectives
Domain category:
football; football game (any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal)
Antonym:
passing (of advancing the ball by throwing it)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Measured lengthwise
Example:
cost of lumber per running foot
Synonyms:
linear; running
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
lengthways; lengthwise (running or extending in the direction of the length of a thing)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb run
Context examples:
Two veins running parallel to their corresponding internal mammary arteries that unite forming one vessel.
(Internal Thoracic Vein, NCI Thesaurus)
Then she fluttered away, running, trailing the broken wing, with him in pursuit.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Sure enough, smaller tracks of the same general form were running parallel to the large ones.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A pattern or manner of running, walking, or moving on foot.
(Gait, NCI Thesaurus)
The process of analyzing the software code without running it.
(Device Static Analysis Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)
A form that must be filed by an investigator running a clinical trial to study a new drug or agent.
(Form FDA 1572, NCI Dictionary)
By the middle of the second day he had been running continuously for thirty hours, and the iron of his flesh was giving out.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
"All you have to do is whistle and he'll come running."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
But I could see four or five men running in great haste, up the stairs, to the top of the island, who then disappeared.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
At once there came running to her from all directions a pack of great wolves.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
