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Definition: TO RUN OUT |
TO RUN OUT1. (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. |
Crosswords: TO RUN OUT |
| English words defined with "TO RUN OUT": Excur ♦ To let out, To pay out. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "TO RUN OUT": endgate car ♦ space leak. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "TO RUN OUT": Excurrent. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Meanwhile, however, plans should be prepared if we are to act promptly when the present extraordinary private demand begins to run out. |
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| 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 | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | deficio. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F      52 55 4E      4F 55 54 |
| 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 01010101 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   R U N   O U T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F      0052 0055 004E      004F 0055 0054 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)544925255482495554 |
| 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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