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How to sign: 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";
See also: lark, fly the coop, take to the woods, head for the hills, hightail it, run away, lam, turn tail, scarper, lark about, run around, romp, frisk, gambol, cavort, skylark, rollick, frolic, sport, disport, bunk, break away, escape
Categories: hurry, speed, travel rapidly, zip
Within this category: hare, jog, lope, outrun, romp, run, run bases, rush, scurry, sprint, streak, trot
How to sign: the act of testing something
"in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately"; "he called each flip of the coin a new trial";
Categories: attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try
Within this category: assay, audition, clinical trial, double blind, field trial, fitting, MOT, pilot project, preclinical trial, Snellen test
How to sign: direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.
"She is running a relief operation in the Sudan";
Similiar / Same: operate
Categories: direct
Within this category: block, financier, warm up, work
How to sign: move along, of liquids
"Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi";
See also: be due, flow from, overflow, well over, brim over, run over, overrun
Similiar / Same: flow, course, feed
Categories: move
Within this category: circulate, drain, eddy, flush, gutter, jet, pour, run down, seep, spill, stream, tide, trickle, waste
How to sign: 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";
Similiar / Same: function, operate, work, go
Within this category: cut, double, roll, run, service
How to sign: 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";
Similiar / Same: tend, be given, incline, lean
Within this category: gravitate, suffer, take kindly to
How to sign: flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
"If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up";
Similiar / Same: scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, head for the hills, take to the woods, fly the coop, bunk, break away, escape
Categories: go away, go forth, leave
Within this category: flee, skedaddle
How to sign: an unbroken series of events
"had a streak of bad luck"; "Nicklaus had a run of birdies";
Similiar / Same: streak
Categories: succession
Within this category: losing streak, winning streak
How to sign: a regular trip
"the ship made its run in record time";
Categories: trip
How to sign: the production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.)
"a daily run of 100,000 gallons of paint";
Categories: indefinite quantity
How to sign: a race between candidates for elective office
"I managed his campaign for governor"; "he is raising money for a Senate run";
Similiar / Same: political campaign, campaign
Categories: race
Within this category: governor's race, senate campaign
How to sign: 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";
Similiar / Same: execute
Categories: apply, enforce, implement
Within this category: step
How to sign: 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";
Similiar / Same: hunt, hunt down, track down
Within this category: course, drive, drive, falcon, ferret, fowl, fowl, foxhunt, hawk, jacklight, poach, rabbit, scrounge, seal, snipe, still-hunt, tree, turtle, whale
