RAN

Definition: RAN

RAN

1. Imp. of Run.

Imperative

1. Of Run

Noun

1. Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.

2. Open robbery.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"RAN" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a water lily".

Date "RAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

RAN

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Crosswords: RAN

Manx (class), Serbo-Croatian (rath, rathe, young).

He ran from here like a whipped dog (Air Force One; writing credit: Andrew W. Marlowe)

You are a vampire who never knew what life was until it ran out in a big gush over your lips (Interview With the Vampire; writing credit: Anne Rice)

I ran her a close second (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

I ran for three years, five months, and two days (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth)

Brave Sir Robin ran away, bravely ran away away (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.)

So she ran into the bedroom (Smooth Criminal; performing artist: Alien Ant Farm)

As the smile ran away from his face ("Piano Man"; performing artist: Billy Joel)

Ran with all kind her mind stayed wit the stooper (Life Story; performing artist: Black Rob)

Me and my sister ran away so my daddy couldn't rape us, (What Would You Do; performing artist: City High)

Ran out of time and money, looks like they took my friends (LODI; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival)

Even crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it. (references; author: unknown)

Around the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran. (references; author: unknown)

Round and round the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran. (references; author: unknown)

They Ran for Their Lives (1968)

Ran salu (1967)

The Decks Ran Red (1958)

Xue ran xiang si gu (1957)

Huang Fei-hong xie ran Furong gu (1952)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A River Ran Wild: An Environmental History (Reading Rainbow Book) (reference)

• If I Ran the Zoo (reference)

• The Kid Who Ran for President (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Ran (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Dos Gigantes De La Cancion Ran (reference)

• We Ran (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Carl Aslakson ran a taut ship Party camp at Benjamin, Texas Triangulation party of Carl I. Aslakson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Camp at the end of the line - Carl Aslakson ran a tight ship Triangulation from Louisiana to the Canadian border in 1934 Triangulation party of Carl I. Aslakson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Air Force Falcon's quarterback Mike Thiessen ran for 55 yards and had a career-high 265 yards passing in the 34-31 overtime loss against Notre Dame's Fighting Irish, Oct. 28. (P.; photo by Staff Sgt. Ben Bloker)..

Interior, second floor, west side. Photograph by Jet Lowe, September 1981. (Reproduction Number: HABS, COLO, 42-DOL.V,4A-10) This wooden dairy barn, built in 1918, is the largest outbuilding on the Ritter Ranch, once the most technologically advanced ranch in the Lower Dolores Valley of Colorado. Divided crosswise by a central breezeway on the first floor and lengthwise by two rows of wooden poles supporting the roof, the barn has an airy and peaceful hayloft shown here that contrasts sharply with the complicated machinery of the work area below. The barn featured a metal manure car that ran along a track--just one of the many mechanical devices used at this state-of-the-art farm. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pilot of the Confederate Army armed transport Planter, who ran his ship out of Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, in the early morning of 13 May 1862 and delivered her to Federal forces. The Planter carried several other black men, women and children to freedom in this daring escape. Credit: NAVY.

Afire off Lunga Point, Guadalcanal, circa late November 1942, after she had been torpedoed in the forward holds. Alchiba was torpedoed on 28 November by the Japanese submarine I-16. Her crew ran her aground and delivered her cargo while fighting fires, which burned until 2 December. She was torpedoed again on 7 December, but was salvaged and reentered service. Photographed by Sgt. Robert Brenner. Credit: NAVY.

Chevy Chase or the bank runner how Burrows ran on the 1st of Novr. & S_L followed, and how Burrows distanced him & almost escaped a whipping). Credit: Library of Congress.

A couple of stage hands ran in and shut you out with two flats upon which were painted in huge letters "N.G.". Credit: Library of Congress.

If I ran them out I wouldn't be neutral!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hold her tight, Mr. President, my girl ran out on me!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And away he ran.

So Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she ran, as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been

I don't want to know, I don't want to see, I don't want to hear, he yelled as he ran, "this is not my planet, I didn't choose to be here, I don't want to get involved, just get me out of here, and get me to a party, with people I can relate to!

Hester Prynne, nevertheless, the lonely mother of this one child, ran little risk of erring on the side of undue severity

Along the crest of the plateau ran a sort of ditch, which could not possibly have been suspected by a distant observer

The catcalls and hisses and mocking cries ran in rude gusts round the hall from his scattered fellowstudents

Dusty water ran out of his hair and streaked his neck

But my little nurse ran to my relief, and took me out, after I had swallowed above a quart of cream

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Physicians knew very little about the cause of stroke and the only established therapy was to feed and care for the patient until the attack ran its course. (references)

Business

In Shanghai a women's shelter was closed after 12 months because its funding ran out. (references)

Telefónica’s territory ran south from La Pampa and Mendoza provinces down through Patagonia, and included 53 percent of subscribers. (references)

At the county and city level, a hospital room ran RMB25 per night, a doctor’s consultation RMB2, and the registration fee was RMB8. The “yellow book” has not been updated to reflect changes in the system and in the market. (references)

Children

Guatemala

The majority of street children ran away from home after they were abused. (references)

Ghana

In March the Government proposed returning schools to the religious bodies that formerly ran them; however, no specific plan or timeframe was established. (references)

Angola

The UNICEF in 1998 estimated that there were approximately 5,000 street children in Luanda; some were orphans or abandoned while others ran away from their families or government facilities that were unable to support them. (references)

Civil Liberties

Guatemala

The daily ran a series on corruption and influence peddling by Rabbe. (references)

China

The magazine ran the story despite reported complaints by propaganda officials. (references)

Kenya

Reporting in these tabloids ran the gamut from revealing insider reports to unsubstantiated rumor-mongering. (references)

Economic History

Brazil

The capital account ran a net surplus of $19.3 billion. (references)

Brunei Darussalam

Until 2000, the government ran a budget deficit since 1988. (references)

Swaziland

During the 1990s, the country often ran small trade deficits. (references)

Human Rights

Nicaragua

According to the CENIDH investigation, police officer Arias ran past Hernandez's house in pursuit of robbers. (references)

Mexico

When the boys ran, the soldiers claimed that they fired four warning shots, one of which hit Esteban in the leg. (references)

Zimbabwe

Among those persons killed were Trymore Midzi, the MDC vice-chairman for the Bindura district, and Titus Nheya, an MDC candidate who ran for office but was defeated in the 2000 parliamentary election. (references)

Minorities

Colombia

Unemployment among Afro-Colombians ran as high as 76 percent in some communities. (references)

Nepal

In 1999 the India-based Hindu political party Shiv Sena, locally known as Pashupati Sena, opened an office in Kathmandu; a few Shiv Sena candidates unsuccessfully ran for office in the 1999 general elections. (references)

Political Economy

HONG KONG

Until 1998, the government regularly ran budget surpluses and thus has amassed large fiscal reserves. (references)

Political Rights

Maldives

In the November 1999 elections, six women ran for seats and two were elected. (references)

Kazakhstan

Of the more than 600 other candidates, approximately half ran as independents. (references)

Samoa

Other candidates who ran against the wishes of their village councils were banished. (references)

Women

Vanuatu

Four of the six women who ran for Parliament in the 1998 election were supported by VANWIP. (references)

Turkey

In June three brothers were convicted of murdering their 15-year old sister after she ran away from an arranged marriage to an older man. (references)

Worker Rights

Peru

Union leaders who ran for Congress in the elections did so without official union sponsorship. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "RAN": Arizona Boys Ran ♦ he ran as fast as his legs would carry him ♦ ran GTP-Binding Protein ♦ ran into ♦ they ran amok through the town ♦ they ran amuck through the town ♦ words ran high. Additional references.

Beginning with "RAN": ran-out.

Ending with "RAN": over-ran, re-ran.

Containing "RAN": ar-ran-ge-ment.

Arabic 

‏ركض (pace, quicken, race, run, running). (various references)

Chinese 

跑 (running). (various references)

Czech

min.èas od run. (various references)

Danish

rangkriteriemetode (ran query). (various references)

Dutch

rangvolgordemethode (ran query). (various references)

Farsi 

کلاف(.n), حلقه کلاف , حلقه (Chain, Curl, Earring, Gird, Girdle, Hank, Hoop, Loop, Ring, Segment, Vortex, Whorl, Wicket, Wisp), زمان ماضی فعلnur . (various references)

Finnish

viini loppui (the wine ran out), tunnelma oli korkealla (spirits ran high), selkäpiitäni karmi (a tingle ran down my spine), puhe oli näin kuuluva (the speech ran as follows), painotus (indexing by weights, ran query, weight, weighted indexing, weighting), painojen avulla järjestäminen (ran query), häneltä loppuivat rahat (he ran out of money, his money gave out), hän ajoi autonsa (he ran his car into). (various references)

French

coururent, courues, courue, courir (race), courûmes. (various references)

German

liefen, lief, gelaufen (trended). (various references)

Greek 

έτρεξα, αόρ. του run. (various references)

Hungarian

rohan (hare, run, rush, scoot, scud, to careen, to dash, to gird, to go full tear, to race, to race along, to run, to run like the devil, to rush, to scoot, to scud, to scurry, to skedaddle), közlekedik (run, to ply, to run), üzemben tart (run, to operate, to run), üzemben van (function, run, to be in action, to be in blast, to function, to run), befut (make a hit, pull in, run, to get in, to put in, to roll up, to run), csepeg (run, to drop, to ooze, to run, to trickle, to weep, wept), elolvad (melt, melt away, run, to run), ereszt (run, to make water, to ooze, to run, to seep), felbomlik (loosen, run, to come apart, to come undone, to decompose, to disband, to disintegrate, to fag, to fag out, to loosen, to run, to split up), folyat (ooze, run, to ooze, to run), forgalomban van (run, to be in circulation, to circulate, to run), futtat (run, to race, to run), gennyedzik (run, to run), húzódik (drawn, drew, run, to draw, to run), érvényben van (run, stood, to be in effect, to hold good, to hold true, to run, to stand), járat (gang, line, line/route, route, run, running, to run, to work), végig varr (run, to run), közlekedtet (run, to run), kerget (drift, run, to bay, to drift, to rattle, to run), kiolvaszt (cupel, run, to render, to run, to smelt, unfreeze), kisüt (elicit, run, think up, to fuzz out, to render, to run), lefut (run, to be run off, to run, to run down), működtet (run, to actuate, to manoeuvre, to run), megfolyósodik (run, to fluidize, to run), megvon (run, to revoke, to run, to stint sy of sg), olvad (melt, run, to melt, to run), spárga gombolyag, szól (conceived as follows, run, say, speak, tell, to ring out, to run, to toll, to toot, to yammer), szalad a szem (run, to run), irányul (drift, run, tend, to drift, to run, to tend). (various references)

Italian

corsi. (various references)

Korean 

달렸다. (various references)

Pig Latin

anray.(various references)

Romanian

trecut de la run. (various references)

Russian 

от run. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

proš. vreme od run. (various references)

Spanish

pret de run, participio pasivo del verbo run, corrio/. (various references)

Swedish

rangkriteriemetod (ran query). (various references)

Thai

กริยาช่องที่ 2 ของ run. (various references)

Turkish

halatı tambur üzerine roda etme. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "RAN": rance, rances, ranch, ranched, rancher, ranchero, rancheros, ranchers, ranches, ranching, ranchman, ranchmen, rancho, ranchos, rancid, rancidities, rancidity, rancidly, rancidness, rancidnesses, rancor, rancored, rancorous, rancorously, rancors, rancour, rancours, rand, randan, randans, randier, randies, randiest, random, randomization, randomizations, randomize, randomized, randomizer, randomizers, randomizes, randomizing, randomly, randomness, randomnesses, randoms, rands, randy, ranee, ranees, rang. (additional references)

Words ending with "RAN": anuran, benzofuran, bodhran, bran, buran, catamaran, cateran, chiropteran, cladoceran, coleopteran, cordilleran, ctenophoran, curran, dextran, dibenzofuran, dipteran, foraminiferan, foreran, furan, furfuran, gran, hemipteran, homopteran, hymenopteran, lepidopteran, loran, macruran, mastigophoran, moneran, neuropteran, nitrofuran, nonveteran, onychophoran, orthopteran, outran, overran, plecopteran, pogonophoran, pyran, reran, saran, shoran, sierran, sovran, sporran, teleran, tetrahydrofuran, thysanuran, trichopteran, trimaran, underran. (additional references)

Words containing "RAN": aberrance, aberrances, aberrancies, aberrancy, aberrant, aberrantly, aberrants, accelerando, accelerandos, accelerant, accelerants, administrant, administrants, adulterant, adulterants, aggrandise, aggrandised, aggrandises, aggrandising, aggrandize, aggrandized, aggrandizement, aggrandizements, aggrandizer, aggrandizers, aggrandizes, aggrandizing, agranulocyte, agranulocytes, agranulocytoses, agranulocytosis, alterant, alterants, amaranth, amaranthine, amaranths, aminotransferase, aminotransferases, anthranilate, anthranilates, antiperspirant, antiperspirants, anurans, appearance, appearances, araneid, araneids, arrange, arranged, arrangement, arrangements. (additional references)

Misspellings

"RAN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: araan, aran, arn, arne, Erzan, Kraan, mrna, Prann, Qra, raa, Raan, Rahn, rahnd, ranau, ranb, Ranc, rane, rani, Ranj, rann, rans, Ranu, rany, ranz, raon, raq, rau, raun, Rauno, Rav, Ravn, ravni, Ravno, rawni, rax, rayn, razn, Razno, reln, renc, renw, renz, rern, rewn, rhan, Riaan, rian, rin, rinn, rino, rinq, Rinv, rinx, Rka, rman, rmn, ronn, rpan, rpn, ruan, runn, ryn, uran, yran. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: an, ar, na.

+1 letter: airn, barn, bran, carn, darn, earn, gnar, gran, karn, knar, narc, nard, nark, nary, near, rain, rand, rang, rani, rank, rant, roan, tarn, warn, yarn.

+2 letters: acorn, adorn, airns, anear, anger, angry, antra, antre, apron, arena, argon, arpen, arson, bairn, barns, barny, baron, brain, brand, brank, brans, brant, brawn, buran, cairn, caner, carns, carny, crane, crank, darns, denar, dinar, drain, drank, drawn, earns, franc, frank, frena, furan, garni, gnarl, gnarr, gnars, grain, grana, grand, grans, grant, groan, inarm, infra, invar, karns, knars, knaur, krona, learn, loran, lunar, manor, nacre, nadir, naira, namer, narco, narcs, nards, nares, naric, naris, narks, narky, navar, nears, noria, orang, organ, prang, prank, prawn, pyran, racon, radon, rains, rainy, ramen, rance, ranch, rands, randy, ranee, range, rangy, ranid, ranis, ranks, rants, ratan, raven, ravin, rawin, rayon, redan, regna, reman, renal, reran, rewan, riant, roans, roman, rowan, ruana, saner, saran, sarin, sharn, snare, snark, snarl, sonar, tarns, train, trank, tranq, trans, trona, ulnar, unarm, unary, unbar, urban, varna, warns, wrang, yarns, yearn.