running
verbEtymology
By surface analysis, run + -ing.
Definitions
present participle and gerund of run
Moving or advancing at a run.
Present, current.
- running month
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Flowing
Flowing; easy; cursive.
- running handwriting
Continuous
Continuous; ongoing; keeping along step by step.
- a running commentary, a running explanation, my running theory
- Thus a constant running fire was kept up, and no interval allowed for the enemy to stand to their guns in safety […]
- a running conquest
Having a continuous design or pattern.
- running bond; running ornament
Consecutive (much more commonly expressed by an adverb
Consecutive (much more commonly expressed by an adverb; see below).
- He won the title for three running years.
Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.
- a running vine
Discharging pus.
- a running sore
Discharging snot or mucus.
- a running nose
Consecutively
Consecutively; in a row.
- Mom's strawberry jam won the blue ribbon at the Holland County Fair three years running.
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
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.
The act of running errands.
- I'm gonna go out and do my running.
The dependence of measured value, typically a coupling constant, on the energy scale at…
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.
Approaching
Approaching; about; roughly.
A surname.
The neighborhood
Derived
byrunning, inrunning, clock is running, free-running, long-running, non-running, nonrunning, Running Creek, running hyena, runningly, running room, running sand, running start, Running Stream, smooth-running, smoothrunning, take a running jump, baserunning, bookrunning, fellrunning, free running, freerunning, gunrunning, make all the running, make the running, river running, road running, rumrunning, running coupling, running game, running lights, running-mate, running stroller, runningwear, skyrunning, tunnel running, ultrarunning
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at running. 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.
A definitional loop anchored at running. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at running
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA