run-in
See also: run in
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Derived from the verb run into.
For the meaning "end-phase", it presumably comes a marathon race, where in the final part the runners run into the stadium and complete a lap.
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
- An encounter; a scrape or brush, especially one involving trouble or difficulty.
- 2004, Pamela Morsi, Suburban Renewal, page 95:
- During that time he had two more run-ins with the law. One involved the sale of stolen property. The other was for a series of hot checks.
- The end-phase of a competition etc.
- Yahoo Sport's Leicester City blogger Helen Nutter gets ready for the Premier League run-in knowing her side - incredibly - still have a great chance of being crowned champions
- 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 704:
- But despite its plague of tunnels, the run-in on this route is of unusual interest to the locomotive enthusiast: besides the hordes of self-important saddle-tanks shunting in the extensive yards, there was at one time the chance of seeing those slender little North London engines, with their large outside cylinders and no visible storage place for coal, and also an occasional South Eastern locomotive sporting a lot of polished brass.
Translations edit
an encounter; a scrape or brush
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Etymology 2 edit
Derived from the verb run in.
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Adjective edit
run-in (not generally comparable, comparative more run-in, superlative most run-in)
- (participial adjective; editing, typography) (not comparable) Having been run in before or behind previous text.
- Antonym: free-hanging
- These headings are of the run-in type because a free-hanging style would just be a waste of column inches.
- (participial adjective; mechanical, engineering) (sometimes comparable) Having been run in to seat the parts.
- Synonym: broken in (adj)
- A well run-in engine is likelier to consume less crankcase oil over the course of its working life.