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(noun) a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely; "the Yankees scored 3 runs in the bottom of the 9th" or "their first tally came in the 3rd inning" |
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Synonyms: tally |
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Related Words: earned run, rbi, run batted in, score, unearned run |
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(noun) the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace; "he broke into a run"; "his daily run keeps him fit" |
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Synonyms: running |
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Related Words: dash, locomotion, sprint, travel |
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(noun) a regular trip; "the ship made its run in record time" |
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Related Words: trip |
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(noun) a short trip; "take a run into town" |
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Related Words: trip |
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(verb) become undone, as of clothes such as knitted fabrics; "the sweater unraveled" |
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Synonyms: unravel |
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Related Words: disintegrate |
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(verb) cause to perform; "run a subject"; "run a process" |
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Related Words: process, rerun, treat |
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(noun) a football play in which a player runs with the ball; "the defensive line braced to stop the run"; "the coach put great emphasis on running" |
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Synonyms: running, running game, running play |
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Related Words: draw, draw play, end run, football play, return, rush, rushing, sweep |
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(verb) change from one state to another; "run amok"; "run rogue", "run riot" |
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Related Words: become, get, go |
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(verb) be in the running; compete for a certain position; "Who's running this year?" |
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Related Words: compete, contend, vie |
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(verb) be running or functioning, as of engines or machines; "Is the computer running?" |
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Related Words: function, go, operate, run, work |
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Antonyms: idle |
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(verb) carry out; "run an errand" |
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Related Words: accomplish, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfil, fulfill |
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(verb) cover by running; run a certain distance; "She ran 10 miles that day" |
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Related Words: go across, go through, pass |
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(verb) move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time |
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Related Words: clip, hare, hurry, jog, lope, outrun, run, run bases, rush, scamper, scurry, scuttle, skitter, speed, sprint, streak, travel rapidly, trot, zip |
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(verb) run with the ball; in football |
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Related Words: run |
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(verb) keep company; of male animals |
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Synonyms: consort |
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Related Words: accompany |
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(verb) sail before the wind |
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Related Words: sail |
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(verb) be diffused; of dyes and colors |
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Synonyms: bleed |
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Related Words: crock, diffuse, fan out, spread, spread out |
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(verb) move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave" |
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Synonyms: course, flow |
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Related Words: circulate, drain, dribble, eddy, filter, flush, gurge, gush, gutter, jet, move, ooze, pour, purl, run down, run off, run out, seep, spill, stream, surge, swirl, tide, trickle, waste, well out, whirl, whirlpool |
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(verb) take to one's heels; cut and run |
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Synonyms: break away, bunk, lam, run away, scarper, turn tail |
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Related Words: go away, go forth, leave, skedaddle |
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(verb) cause an animal to move fast |
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Related Words: displace, move |
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(verb) move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way; "who are these people running around in the building?" "She runs around telling everyone of her troubles" |
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Related Words: go, locomote, move, travel |
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(verb) deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor |
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Synonyms: black market |
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Related Words: merchandise, trade |
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(verb) set animals loose to graze |
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Related Words: free, liberate, loose, release, unloose |
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(verb) make without a miss; in sports or games |
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Related Words: come through, succeed |
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(verb) execute a program or process, as on a computer or a machine; "Run the dishwasher"; "run a new program on the Mac" |
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Related Words: apply, enforce, implement |
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(verb) occur persistently; "Musical talent runs in the family" |
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Related Words: be, occur |
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(verb) extend or continue for a certain period of time; "The film runs 5 hours" |
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Synonyms: run for |
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Related Words: endure, last |
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(verb) stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point; "Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn't go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"; "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets" |
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Synonyms: extend, go, lead, pass |
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Related Words: be, come, go deep, go far, radiate, ray |
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(verb) cause something to pass or lead somewhere; "Run the wire behind the cabinet" |
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Synonyms: lead |
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Related Words: make pass, pass |
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(verb) be affected by; be subjected to; as in "run a temperature," "run a risk" |
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Related Words: incur |
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(verb) have a particular form; "the story or argument runs....", "as the saying goes..." |
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Synonyms: go |
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Related Words: be |
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(noun) a row of unravelled stitches; "she got a run in her stocking" |
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Synonyms: ladder, ravel |
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Related Words: damage, harm, impairment |
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(verb) come unraveled or undone as if by snagging, of stockings; "Her nylons were running" |
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Synonyms: ladder |
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Related Words: break, come apart, fall apart, separate, split up |
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(verb) reduce from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating; "melt butter"; "melt down gold" |
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Synonyms: melt, melt down |
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Related Words: break up, dissolve, fuse, render, try |
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(verb) compete in a race, as in athletics |
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Synonyms: race |
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Related Words: boat-race, campaign, compete, contend, horse-race, run, speed skate, vie |
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(verb) run or stand for office |
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Synonyms: campaign |
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Related Words: barnstorm, cross-file, race, register, rerun, run, whistlestop |
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(verb) hunt wild animals; "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland" |
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Synonyms: hunt, hunt down, track down |
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Related Words: ambush, capture, catch, drive, falcon, forage, fowl, foxhunt, hawk, jack, jacklight, poach, rabbit, scrounge, seal, snipe, still-hunt, tree, whale |
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(verb) guide or pass over something; "He ran his eyes over her naked body." "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine." |
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Synonyms: guide, pass |
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Related Words: rub, thread |
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(verb) physical or metaphorical, as in "She rammed her mind into focus" |
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Synonyms: drive, force, ram |
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Related Words: thrust, toe |
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(verb) cause to be played: "They ran the tapes over and over again" |
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Synonyms: play |
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(verb) include as the content; broadcast or publicize; "We ran the ad three times"; "This paper carries a restaurant review"; "All major networks carried the press conference" |
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Synonyms: carry |
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Related Words: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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(verb) travel a route regularly; "Ships ply the waters near the coast" |
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Synonyms: ply |
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Related Words: jaunt, travel, trip |
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(verb) direct or control; of machinery, projects, businesses, etc. |
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Synonyms: operate |
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Related Words: block, direct, financier, warm up |
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(verb) change or be different within limits; "Estimates for the losses in the earthquake range as high as $2 billion"; "Interest rates run from 5 to 10 percent"; "The instruments ranged from tuba to cymbals"; My students range from very bright to dull" |
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Synonyms: range |
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Related Words: be |
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(noun) an unbroken series of events: "a succession of failures"; "had a streak of bad luck"; "Nicklaus had a run of birdies" |
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Synonyms: streak |
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Related Words: losing streak, succession, winning streak |
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(verb) progress by being changed: "The speech has to go through several more drafts"; "run through your presentation before the meeting" |
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Synonyms: go, move |
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Related Words: change |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: test, trial |
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Related Words: attempt, audition, effort, endeavor, endeavour, fitting, pilot program, pilot project, try, try-on, trying on, tryout |
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(noun) the pouring forth of a fluid |
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Synonyms: discharge, outpouring |
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Related Words: escape, flow, flowing, jet, leak, leakage, outflow, spirt, spurt, squirt |
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(noun) a race run on foot; "she broke the record for the half-mile run" |
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Synonyms: foot race, footrace |
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Related Words: marathon, obstacle race, race, steeplechase, track event |
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(noun) a small stream |
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Synonyms: rill, rivulet, runnel, streamlet |
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Related Words: stream, watercourse |
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(verb) cease to exist after resistance or a struggle; "These stories die hard" |
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Synonyms: die hard, endure, persist, prevail |
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Related Words: carry over, continue |
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(verb) have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined; "She tends to be nervous before her lectures" |
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Synonyms: incline, lean, tend |
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Related Words: be, gravitate |
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(verb) function properly; "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in" |
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Synonyms: function, go, operate, work |
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Related Words: cut, double, roll, run, serve, service |
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