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Definition: TO RUN ON |
TO RUN ON1. (a) To be continued; as, their accounts had run on for a year or two without a settlement. (b) To talk incessantly. (c) To continue a course. (d) To press with jokes or ridicule; to abuse with sarcasm; to bear hard on. (e) (Print.) To be continued in the same lines, without making a break or beginning a new paragraph. |
Crosswords: TO RUN ON |
| English words defined with "TO RUN ON": basilisk ♦ train set, Tram car. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "TO RUN ON": BeOS, BI-FUEL VEHICLE ♦ CONVERTED VEHICLE ♦ GNU Network Object Model Environment ♦ Java Virtual Machine ♦ Laning and Zierler, legacy system ♦ Microsoft Windows ♦ news-ink, NEXTSTEP ♦ POOL2 ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ♦ software portage, symmetric multiprocessing ♦ TYMNET ♦ Ultrix ♦ WabiServer, Win32s. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "TO RUN ON": intercourse. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | It was useless to run on. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Moldova | The Government also dissolved the Press Concern, an institution that provided space for a number of independent media and journalists' organizations, including the Moldpress news agency; the Government turned over control of the Press Concern's building to the State Chancellery to run on a for-profit basis. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "TO RUN ON": to run on all fours. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "TO RUN ON"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | csak beszél tovább, bekezdés nélkül folytat. (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | "引く (to cull, to run on a curtailed schedule, to thin out). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | まびく (to cull, to run on a curtailed schedule, to thin out). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | otay unray onay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "n-n-o-o-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: turnon, unroot, untorn. | |
-3 letters: noon, noun, onto, root, roto, rout, runt, toon, torn, toro, tour, turn, unto. | |
-4 letters: noo, nor, not, nun, nut, oot, ort, our, out, rot, run, rut, ton, too, tor, tun, urn. | |
-5 letters: no, nu, on, or, to, un, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "n-n-o-o-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: notturno. | |
+2 letters: nonauthor, unrooting. | |
+3 letters: contouring, counterion, motoneuron, neurotoxin, nonauthors, noncountry, nonroutine, nonsupport, northbound, outsnoring. | |
+4 letters: boutonniere, conjuration, continuator, conurbation, counterions, inopportune, motoneurons, neurotoxins, nitrogenous, nonauditory, noncomputer, noncustomer, nonroutines, nonsupports, outfrowning, outscorning, subornation, unmonitored. | |
+5 letters: boutonnieres, conjurations, construction, conterminous, continuators, contribution, conurbations, counterpoint, countertenor, countrywoman, countrywomen, fluorination, incorruption, introduction, motoneuronal, neuroanatomy, nonconductor, noncongruent, noncountries, noncustomers, nonpetroleum, nonvoluntary, overcounting, recontouring, refoundation, subornations, unconformity, uncontrolled. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F      52 55 4E      4F 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01010010 01010101 01001110 00100000 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   R U N   O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F      0052 0055 004E      004F 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5449252554824948 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Fiction 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Expressions 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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