THE RUN

Definition: THE RUN

THE RUN

1. Etc., ordinary persons; the generality or average of people or things; also, that which ordinarily occurs; ordinary current, course, or kind. I saw nothing else that is superior to the common run of parks. --Walpole. Burns never dreamed of looking down on others as beneath him, merely because he was conscious of his own vast superiority to the common run of men. --Prof. Wilson. His whole appearance was something out of the common run. --W. Irving.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Freedom

Verb: be free; Adjective: have scope; Noun: have the run of, have one's own way, have a will of one's own, have one's fling; do what one likes, do what one wishes, do what one pleases, do what one chooses; go at large, feel at home, paddle one's own canoe; stand on one's legs, stand on one's rights; shift for oneself.

Crosswords: THE RUN

You'll be on the run with no friends (Catch-22; writing credit: Buck Henry)

That's no life for a lovely lady like herself, always on the run. What kind of life is that (Robin Hood; writing credit: Ken Anderson; Larry Clemmons)

It only comes out when the moon is on the run (Spanish Harlem; performing artist: Aretha Franklin)

Doesn't really matter if you're on the run (As Long As You Love Me; performing artist: Backstreet Boys)

For both of us to live on the run (Feelin' Stronger Everyday; performing artist: Chicago)

I'm on the run. No time to sleep (Ride Like the Wind; performing artist: Christopher Cross)

Just a toerag on the run. (My Father's Eyes; performing artist: Eric Clapton)

Brother on the Run (1972)

On the Run (1968)

Toddler on the Run (1966)

Man on the Run (1963)

On the Run (1963)

Band On The Run (performing artist: Paul McCartney & Wings)

Take It On The Run (performing artist: REO Speedwagon)

FOX ON THE RUN (performing artist: SWEET)

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

Books

• Wingspan: Paul McCartney's Band on the Run (reference)

• Diabetes Meals on the Run : Fast, Healthy Menus Using Convenience Foods (reference)

• Dork on the Run (reference)

• Cowboy on the Run (Worlds Most Eligible Bachelors) (reference)

• Charles Bukowski: Uncensored from the Run With the Hunted Session [UNABRIDGED] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Love on the Run (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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

Got him on the run. Credit: Library of Congress.

Banana transportation. Tela Railroad Company. Leaving the engine house at La Lima, Honduras, for the run to Tela. Credit: Library of Congress.

Vaughn, New Mexico. One of the 5000 Class Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad freight locomotives about to leave on the run to Clovis, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Senegal

Rice imports reached record levels of 658 TMT in 1999, due primarily to the piling up of stocks in the run up to the February 2000 presidential elections. (references)

Sri Lanka

The government spent around Rs 28 billion--about $350 million--more on defense in 2000. The government also increased wages and pensions of government servants in the run up to October parliamentary elections. (references)

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

Expressions using "THE RUN": be on the run ♦ By the run ♦ have the run ♦ the run of public opinion ♦ the run of the mill ♦ To let go by the run. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏مصاب بإسهال (have the run, lax). (various references)

Chinese 

�"命 (be kept on the run, rush about on errands). (various references)

Czech

být na útìku (be on the loose, be on the run). (various references)

German

auf der Flucht (on the run). (various references)

Hungarian

nekifut (to make the run, to run up), mindig lót-fut (to be always on the run), menekül (fled, flee, refuge, to be on the run, to emboss, to flee, to fly for one's life, to hare off, to run for, to save one's bacon, to tree), megszalaszt vkit (to get sy on the run), lót-fut (to be on the run, to bustle about, to run about), kedvére belakhat (have the run of one's knife, have the run of one's teeth), jól belejön (to get the run of it), folytonosan szalad (to be always on the run), folytonosan rohan (to be always on the run, to be on the run), folyton rohan (to be on the run), ehet (have the run of one's knife, have the run of one's teeth), amennyi belefér (have the run of one's knife, have the run of one's teeth). (various references)

Indonesian

sedang melarikan diri (on the run). (various references)

Manx

scaipail (on the run, slip out). (various references)

Pig Latin

ethay unray.(various references)

Romanian

tendinţa opiniei publice (the run of public opinion). (various references)

Russian 

в бегах (in hiding, on the run). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hunter.

-1 letter: tuner.

-2 letters: hent, hern, hunt, hurt, rent, rune, runt, ruth, tern, then, thru, true, tune, turn.

-3 letters: ern, eth, hen, her, het, hue, hun, hut, net, nth, nut, ret, rue, run, rut, ten, the, tun, urn.

-4 letters: eh, en, er, et, he, ne, nu, re, uh, un, ut.

+1 letter: burthen, chunter, haunter, hunters, luthern, shunter, thunder, unearth, urethan.

+2 letters: burthens, chaunter, chunters, earthnut, haunters, hereunto, huntress, lutherns, overhunt, ruthenic, shunters, southern, thunders, thundery, unearths, untether, unthread, unthrone, urethane, urethans.

+3 letters: buhrstone, burthened, chaunters, chuntered, earthnuts, eutherian, foxhunter, heartburn, hundredth, hungriest, naughtier, nonhunter, overhunts, pothunter, ruthenium, southerns, stauncher, sunbather, superthin, thereunto, thereupon, thundered, thunderer, truncheon, uncharted, undershot, unearthed, unearthly, untethers, unthreads, unthroned, unthrones, unwreathe, urethanes, whereunto, wuthering.