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TO RUN OUT

Definition: TO RUN OUT

TO RUN OUT

1. (a) To come to an end; to expire; as, the lease runs out at Michaelmas. (b) To extend; to spread. ``Insectile animals . . . run all out into legs.'' --Hammond. (c) To expatiate; as, to run out into beautiful digressions. (d) To be wasted or exhausted; to become poor; to become extinct; as, an estate managed without economy will soon run out. And had her stock been less, no doubt She must have long ago run out. --Dryden.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO RUN OUT

English words defined with "TO RUN OUT": ExcurTo let out, To pay out. (references)
Specialty definitions using "TO RUN OUT": endgate carspace leak. (references)
Etymologies containing "TO RUN OUT": Excurrent. (references)

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Modern Usage: TO RUN OUT

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Screenplays

Actually, I think you'll have to run out, but yes, that's what you have to do. (Minority Report; writing credit: Scott Frank)

Your lifelong dream was to run out onto the field at a baseball game, and you did it, last year! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Lyrics

But you never seem to run out of things to say! (Absolutely (Story Of A Girl); performing artist: Nine Days)

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

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Commercial Usage: TO RUN OUT

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Books

  • Dollars and Sense for College Students: Or How Not to Run Out of Money by Mid-Terms (Princeton Review Series) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Speeches: TO RUN OUT

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Harry S. Truman

1945-1953Meanwhile, however, plans should be prepared if we are to act promptly when the present extraordinary private demand begins to run out.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translation: TO RUN OUT

Language Translations for "TO RUN OUT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

期滿 (to come to an end, to expire). (various references)

   

German

  

zu Ende gehen (be over, expire, give out). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

letelik, kiszalad (pop out, to pop out), kiszögellik (to shoot out), kifut (run out, to pull out), kifolyik (flow out, run out, to effuse, to issue, to issue out, to leak), kifogy (give out, to peter out, to run low, to run short), kicsordul (brim over, overbrim, to brim over), elfogy (Peter, run out, to consume, to give out, to run short, to waste). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

尽くす (to befriend, to devote, to exhaust, to serve). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

くれる (to be given, to close, to come to an end, to do for one, to end, to get dark, to give, to let one have), つくす (to befriend, to devote, to exhaust, to serve), かれる (to be blasted, to die, to dry up, to wither), もる (to fill up, to leak, to prescribe, to serve). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay unray outay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: TO RUN OUT

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

deficio. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: TO RUN OUT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "n-o-o-r-t-t-u-u"

-1 letter: outturn, turnout.

-2 letters: outrun, runout, unroot.

-3 letters: torot, trout, tutor.

-4 letters: onto, otto, root, roto, rout, runt, toon, toot, torn, toro, tort, tour, tout, trot, turn, tutu, unto.

-5 letters: noo, nor, not, nut, oot, ort, our, out, rot, run, rut, ton, too, tor, tot, tun, tut, urn.

 Words containing the letters "n-o-o-r-t-t-u-u"
 

+4 letters: tortuousness.

 

+5 letters: nonnutritious.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TO RUN OUT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      52 55 4E      4F 55 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01010010 01010101 01001110 00100000 01001111 01010101 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#82 &#85 &#78 &#32 &#79 &#85 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0052 0055 004E      004F 0055 0054

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

544925255482495554

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Speeches
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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