running.
Moving or advancing at a run.
Meaning & usage
Moving or advancing at a run.
Moving or advancing at a run. Of a horse, having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
Present, current.
running month
Flowing; easy; cursive.
running handwriting
Continuous; ongoing; keeping along step by step.
a running commentary, a running explanation, my running theory
Having a continuous design or pattern.
running bond; running ornament
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
Where this word comes from
By surface analysis, run + -ing.
Consecutively; in a row.
Mom's strawberry jam won the blue ribbon at the Holland County Fair three years running.
Where this word comes from
By surface analysis, run + -ing.
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; 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 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.
Where this word comes from
By surface analysis, run + -ing.
Approaching; about; roughly.
Where this word comes from
By surface analysis, run + -ing.
present participle and gerund of run
Where this word comes from
By surface analysis, run + -ing.
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