running

See also: Running

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, run +‎ -ingCategory:English terms suffixed with -ing#RUNNING.

Pronunciation

Verb

runningCategory:English non-lemma forms#RUNNINGCategory:English verb forms#RUNNINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RUNNINGCategory:Pages with entries#RUNNINGCategory:Pages with 3 entries#RUNNING

  1. present participle and gerund of run

Adjective

running (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#RUNNINGCategory:English adjectives#RUNNINGCategory:English uncomparable adjectives#RUNNINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RUNNINGCategory:Pages with entries#RUNNINGCategory:Pages with 3 entries#RUNNING

  1. Moving or advancing at a run.
    1. Of a horse, having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
  2. Present, current.
  3. Flowing; easy; cursive.
  4. Continuous; ongoing; keeping along step by step.
    a running commentary, a running explanation, my running theoryCategory:English terms with usage examples#RUNNING
  5. Having a continuous design or pattern.
  6. Consecutive (much more commonly expressed by an adverb; see below).
    He won the title for three running years.Category:English terms with usage examples#RUNNING
  7. (botanyCategory:en:Botany#RUNNING) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.
  8. (medicineCategory:en:Medicine#RUNNING) Discharging pus.
  9. (medicineCategory:en:Medicine#RUNNING, of a nose) Discharging snot or mucus.
    Synonym: runny

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Translations

Adverb

running (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#RUNNINGCategory:English adverbs#RUNNINGCategory:English uncomparable adverbs#RUNNINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RUNNINGCategory:Pages with entries#RUNNINGCategory:Pages with 3 entries#RUNNING

  1. (informalCategory:English informal terms#RUNNING) Consecutively; in a row.
    Mom's strawberry jam won the blue ribbon at the Holland County Fair three years running.Category:English terms with usage examples#RUNNING

Translations

Noun

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running (countable and uncountable, plural runnings)Category:English lemmas#RUNNINGCategory:English nouns#RUNNINGCategory:English uncountable nouns#RUNNINGCategory:English countable nouns#RUNNINGCategory:English countable nouns#RUNNINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RUNNINGCategory:Pages with entries#RUNNINGCategory:Pages with 3 entries#RUNNING

  1. The action of the verb to run.
    His running of the business leaves something to be desired.Category:English terms with usage examples#RUNNING
    • 2022 January 12, “Network News: Trading of Go-Ahead Group shares halted”, in RAIL, number 948, page 7:
      The train operating company owning group warned in early December that it was unable to publish its results for the year to July 3 2021, following an investigation into the running of Southeastern, which was stripped of its franchise in October [...].
      Category:English terms with quotations#RUNNING
  2. The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason.
  3. That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.
  4. The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
  5. (colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#RUNNING) The act of running errands.
    I'm gonna go out and do my running.Category:English terms with usage examples#RUNNING
  7. (physicsCategory:en:Physics#RUNNING) The dependence of measured value, typically a coupling constant, on the energy scale at which it is probed due to higher-order interaction terms and associated renormalization issues becoming relevant; metaphorically, the "running" of the measurement from its limiting macroscopic value.

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Preposition

runningCategory:English lemmas#RUNNINGCategory:English prepositions#RUNNINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RUNNINGCategory:Pages with entries#RUNNINGCategory:Pages with 3 entries#RUNNING

  1. (colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#RUNNING) Approaching; about; roughly. (Can we add an example for this sense?)Category:Requests for example sentences in English#RUNNING

Derived terms

References

Category:English verbal nouns#RUNNING

French

Etymology

Ellipsis ofCategory:French ellipses#RUNNING EnglishCategory:French terms borrowed from English#RUNNINGCategory:French terms derived from English#RUNNING running shoe.

Pronunciation

Noun

running m (plural runnings)Category:French lemmas#RUNNINGCategory:French nouns#RUNNINGCategory:French countable nouns#RUNNINGCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#RUNNINGCategory:French masculine nouns#RUNNINGCategory:Pages with entries#RUNNINGCategory:Pages with 3 entries#RUNNING

  1. (CanadaCategory:Canadian French#RUNNING) running shoe
    Synonyms: espadrille, tennis, basket

Spanish

Noun

running m (uncountable)Category:Spanish lemmas#RUNNINGCategory:Spanish nouns#RUNNINGCategory:Spanish uncountable nouns#RUNNINGCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#RUNNINGCategory:Spanish masculine nouns#RUNNINGCategory:Pages with entries#RUNNINGCategory:Pages with 3 entries#RUNNING

  1. running, jogging
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