running
See also: Running
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
running (not comparable)
- Moving or advancing at a run.
- Present, current.
- running month
- Flowing; easy; cursive.
- running handwriting
- Continuous; ongoing; keeping along step by step.
- a running explanation
- 1778, John Hamilton Moore, A New and Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels
- Thus a constant running fire was kept up, and no interval allowed for the enemy to stand to their guns in safety […]
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- a running conquest
- (Can we date this quote?) Hare
- What are art and science if not a running commentary on Nature?
- Having a continuous design or pattern.
- running bond; running ornament
- Consecutive.
- (botany) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.
- a running vine
- (medicine) Discharging pus.
- a running sore
- (of a nose) Discharging snot or mucus.
- a running nose
SynonymsEdit
- (nose): runny
HyponymsEdit
TranslationsEdit
moving by running
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AdverbEdit
running (not comparable)
- (informal) consecutively; in a row
- Mom's strawberry jam won the blue ribbon at the Holland County Fair three years running.
TranslationsEdit
consecutively
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NounEdit
running (countable and uncountable, plural runnings)
- The action of the verb to run.
- His running of the business leaves something to be desired.
- The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason
- Running is good exercise.
- That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.
- the first running of a still
- The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
TranslationsEdit
the action of the verb to run
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sport
quantity of liquid which flows in a certain time
VerbEdit
running
- present participle of run
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from running (all parts of speech)