English Online Dictionary. What means running? What does running mean?
English
Etymology
By surface analysis, run + -ing.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈɹʌniŋ/
- Rhymes: -ʌnɪŋ
Verb
running
- present participle and gerund of run
Adjective
running (not comparable)
- Moving or advancing at a run.
- Of a horse, having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
- Present, current.
- Flowing; easy; cursive.
- Continuous; ongoing; keeping along step by step.
- Having a continuous design or pattern.
- running bond; running ornament
- Consecutive (much more commonly expressed by an adverb; see below).
- (botany) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.
- (medicine) Discharging pus.
- (medicine, of a nose) Discharging snot or mucus.
- Synonym: runny
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Adverb
running (not comparable)
- (informal) Consecutively; in a row.
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Noun
running (countable and uncountable, plural runnings)
- The action of the verb to run.
- The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason.
- That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.
- The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
- (colloquial) The act of running errands.
- (physics) 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
running
- (colloquial) Approaching; about; roughly. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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References
- “running”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Spanish
Noun
running m (uncountable)
- running, jogging