A score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely:
— The Yankees scored 3 runs in the bottom of the 9th.

synonym: tally.

Roget 104: repetition, iteration, reiteration, harping, recurrence, succession, run; battology, tautology; monotony, tautophony; rhythm etc. 138; diffuseness, pleonasm, redundancy.    chimes, repetend, echo, ritornello^†, burden of a song, refrain; rehearsal; rechauffe [Fr.], rifacimento [It], recapitulation.    cuckoo etc. (imitation) 19; reverberation etc. 408; drumming etc. (roll) 407; renewal etc. (restoration) 660.    twice-told tale; old story, old song; second edition, new edition; reappearance, reproduction, recursion [Comp.]; periodicity etc. 138.    ... show more

Roget 78: generality, generalization; universality; catholicity, catholicism; miscellany, miscellaneousness^†; dragnet; common run; worldwideness^†.    everyone, everybody; all hands, all the world and his wife; anybody, N or M, all sorts.    prevalence, run.    ... show more

Roget 264: motion, movement, move; going etc. v.; unrest.    stream, flow, flux, run, course, stir; evolution; kinematics; telekinesis.    step, rate, pace, tread, stride, gait, port, footfall, cadence, carriage, velocity, angular velocity; clip, progress, locomotion; journey etc. 266; voyage etc. 267; transit etc. 270.    restlessness etc. (changeableness) 149; mobility; movableness, motive power; laws of motion; mobilization.    ... show more

Roget 267: navigation; aquatics; boating, yachting; ship etc. 273; oar, paddle, screw, sail, canvas, aileron.    natation^†, swimming; fin, flipper, fish's tail.    aerostation^†, aerostatics^†, aeronautics; balloonery^†; balloon etc. 273; ballooning, aviation, airmanship; flying, flight, volitation^†; wing, pinion; rocketry, space travel, astronautics, orbital mechanics, orbiting.    voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus^†; headway, sternway, leeway; fairway.    mariner etc. 269.    flight, trip; shuttle, run, airlift.    ... show more

Roget 964: lawlessness; illicitness; breach of law, violation of law, infraction of the law; disobedience etc. 742; unconformity etc. 83.    arbitrariness etc. adj.; antinomy, violence, brute force, despotism, outlawry.    mob law, lynch law, club law, Lydford law, martial law, drumhead law; coup d'etat [Fr.]; le droit du plus fort [Fr.]; argumentum baculinum [Lat.].    illegality, informality, unlawfulness, illegitimacy, bar sinister.    trover and conversion [Law]; smuggling, poaching; simony.    [person who violates the law] outlaw, bad man etc. 949.    v.. offend against the law; violate the law, infringe the law, break the law; set the law at defiance, ride roughshod over, drive a coach and six through a statute; ignore the law, make the law a dead letter, take the law into one's own hands.    smuggle, run, poach.    ... show more

Roget 613: habit, habitude; assuetude^†, assuefaction^†, wont; run, way.    common state of things, general state of things, natural state of things, ordinary state of things, ordinary course of things, ordinary run of things; matter of course; beaten path, beaten track, beaten ground.    prescription, custom, use, usage, immemorial usage, practice; prevalence, observance; conventionalism, conventionality; mode, fashion, vogue; etiquette etc. (gentility) 852; order of the day, cry; conformity etc. 82; consuetude, dustoor^†.    one's old way, old school, veteris vestigia flammae [Lat.]; laudator temporis acti [Lat.].    rule, standing order, precedent, routine; red-tape, red-tapism^†; pipe clay; rut, groove.    cacoethes [Lat.]; bad habit, confirmed habit, inveterate habit, intrinsic habit &c.; addiction, trick.    training etc. (education) 537; seasoning, second nature, acclimatization; knack etc. ... show more

Roget 143: continuance, continuation; run; perpetuation, prolongation; persistence etc. (perseverance) 604.1; repetition etc. 104.   

The act of testing something.

synonyms: test, trial.

Dutch: test, probeersel, proef
Polish: testowanie

A race run on foot:
— She broke the record for the half-mile run.

synonyms: foot race, footrace.

Polish: bieg

An unbroken series of events:
— Nicklaus had a run of birdies.

synonym: streak.

Polish: passa, continuum, kontinuum

American football A play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team:
— The defensive line braced to stop the run.
— The coach put great emphasis on running.

synonyms: running, running game, running play.

A regular trip.

The act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace:
— He broke into a run.
— His daily run keeps him fit.

synonym: running.

Polish: bieg

The continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation.

Unrestricted freedom to use.

The production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.).

A small stream.

synonyms: rill, rivulet, runnel, streamlet.

Dutch: stroompje, stroom

A race between candidates for elective office:
— He is raising money for a Senate run.

synonyms: campaign, political campaign.

A row of unravelled stitches:
— She got a run in her stocking.

synonyms: ladder, ravel.

Dutch: ladder

The pouring forth of a fluid.

synonyms: discharge, outpouring.

An unbroken chronological sequence.

A short trip.

Move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time.

Roget 791: steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim^†, crib, cabbage, palm; abstract; appropriate, plagiarize.    convey away, carry off, abduct, kidnap, crimp; make off with, walk off with, run off with; run away with; spirit away, seize etc. (lay violent hands on) 789.    plunder, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate^†, despoil, strip, sweep, gut, forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer^†, maraud, lift cattle, poach; smuggle, run; badger [Slang]; bail up, hold up, stick up; bunco, bunko, filibuster.    swindle, peculate, embezzle; sponge, mulct, rook, bilk, pluck, pigeon, fleece; defraud etc. 545; obtain under false pretenses; live by one's wits.    rob Peter to pay Paul, borrow of Peter to pay Paul; set a thief to catch a thief.    disregard the distinction between meum and disregard the distinction between meum and tuum [Lat.].    [receive stolen goods] fence, launder, launder money.    ... show more

Dutch: hollen, hardlopen, galopperen, draven, rennen

Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run:
— If you see this man, run!.

synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail ... show more.

Dutch: weglopen, vluchten

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.

synonyms: extend, go, lead, pass.

Roget 151: happen, occur; take place, take effect; come, become of; come off, comeabout^†, come round, come into existence, come forth, come to pass, come on; pass, present itself; fall; fall out, turn out; run, be on foot, fall in; befall, betide, bechance^†; prove, eventuate, draw on; turn up, crop up, spring up, pop up, arise, show up, show its face, appear, come forth, cast up; supervene, survene^†; issue, arrive, ensue, arise, start, hold, take its course; pass off etc. (be past) 122.    meet with; experience, enjoy, encounter, undergo, suffer, pass through, go through, be subjected to, be exposed to; fall to the lot of; be one's chance, be one's fortune, be one's lot; find; endure etc. (feel) 821.    ... show more

Roget 264: be in motion etc. adj.; move, go, hie, gang, budge, stir, pass, flit; hover about, hover round, hover about; shift, slide, glide; roll, roll on; flow, stream, run, drift, sweep along; wander etc. (deviate) 279; walk etc. 266; change one's place, shift one's place, change one's quarters, shift one's quarters; dodge; keep going, keep moving; put in motion, set in motion; move; impel etc. 276; propel etc. 284; render movable, mobilize.    ... show more

Direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.:
— She is running a relief operation in the Sudan.

synonym: operate.

Dutch: leiden, beheren, houden, runnen

Have a particular form:
— The story or argument runs as follows.

synonym: go.

Move along, of liquids.

synonyms: course, feed, flow.

Roget 348: flow, run; meander; gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue; drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle^†, trill, trickle, distill, percolate; stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash; guggle^†, murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray, regurgitate; ooze, flow out etc. (egress) 295.    rain hard, rain in torrents, rain cats and dogs, rain pitchforks; pour with rain, drizzle, spit, set in; mizzle^†.    flow into, fall into, open into, drain into; discharge itself, disembogue^†.    [Cause a flow] pour; pour out etc. (discharge) 297; shower down, irrigate, drench etc. (wet) 337; spill, splash.    [Stop a flow] stanch; dam, up etc. (close) 261; obstruct etc. 706.    ... show more

Roget 109: elapse, lapse, flow, run, proceed, advance, pass; roll on, wear on, press on; flit, fly, slip, slide, glide; run its course.    run out, expire; go by, pass by; be past etc. 122.    ... show more

Dutch: stromen

Perform as expected when applied:
— Does this old car still run well?.

synonyms: function, go, operate, work.

Dutch: functioneren, werken

Change or be different within limits:
— Interest rates run from 5 to 10 percent.

synonym: range.

Run, stand, or compete for an office or a position:
— Who's running for treasurer this year?.

synonym: campaign.

Cause to emit recorded audio or video.

synonym: play.

Dutch: afdraaien, afspelen, draaien

Move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way.

Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined:
— These dresses run small.

synonyms: be given, incline, lean, tend.

Dutch: plegen, zwemen

Be operating, running or functioning.

Change from one state to another.

Cause to perform.

Be affected by; be subjected to.

Continue to exist.

synonyms: die hard, endure, persist, prevail.

Dutch: volharden

Occur persistently.

Carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine:
— Run the dishwasher.
— Run a new program on the Mac.

synonym: execute.

Dutch: uitvoeren

Include as the content; broadcast or publicize.

synonym: carry.

Carry out.

Pass over, across, or through.

synonyms: draw, guide, pass.

Cause something to pass or lead somewhere:
— Run the wire behind the cabinet.

synonym: lead.

Make without a miss.

Deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor.

synonym: black market.

Cause an animal to move fast.

Be diffused:
— These dyes and colors are guaranteed not to run.

synonym: bleed.

Sail before the wind.

Cover by running; run a certain distance.

Extend or continue for a certain period of time:
— The film runs 5 hours.

synonym: run for.

Set animals loose to graze.

Keep company:
— The heifers run with the bulls to produce offspring.

synonym: consort.

Run with the ball; in such sports as football.

Travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means.

Travel a route regularly.

synonym: ply.

Pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals):
— The dogs are running deer.

synonyms: hunt, hunt down, track down.

Compete in a race:
— He is running the Marathon this year.

synonym: race.

Progress by being changed:
— Run through your presentation before the meeting.

synonyms: go, move.

Reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating.

synonyms: melt, melt down.

Roget 335: render liquid etc. 333; liquefy, run; deliquesce; melt etc. (heat) 384; solve; dissolve, resolve; liquate^†; hold in solution; condense, precipitate, rain.    ... show more

Dutch: smelten

Come unraveled or undone as if by snagging:
— Her nylons were running.

synonym: ladder.

Dutch: ladderen

Become undone.

synonym: unravel.

Dutch: rafelen, uitrafelen

Any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages:
— Each rune had its own magical significance.

synonym: runic letter.

Dutch: rune
Polish: runa