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ran

verb
/ɹæn/

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese らん/蘭.

  1. borrowed from らん

Definitions

  1. simple past of run

  2. simple past of rin

  3. past participle of run

    • […]rather to convince the Underſtanding, than to be eaſily capable of being anſwered ; excuſing your ſelf that you have ran into an Error, ſo foreign as you have declared from your Intention,[…]
    • " Heretics and schismatics, because they rebel against her, and only belong to the church, as deserters to an army from which they have ran away ;[…]
    • I’ve ran this event many times but in the year 2000, when we were running over the Bodmin Moor part of the course, it lashed down with large, freezing-cold hailstones.
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.

    2. Initialism of Royal Australian Navy

    3. Initialism of radio access network (“the underlying physical connection method for a…

      Initialism of radio access network (“the underlying physical connection method for a radio based communication network”).

    4. A male given name from Hebrew.

    5. A female given name from Japanese.

    6. A surname.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at ran. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at ran. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at ran

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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