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Run Through

Definition: Run Through

Run Through

Noun

1. A practice session in preparation for a public performance (as of a play or speech or concert); "he missed too many rehearsals"; "a rehearsal will be held the day before the wedding".

Verb

1. Apply thoroughly; think through; "We worked through an example".

2. Use up, as of resources or materials; "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Run Through

Synonyms: dry run (n), rehearsal (n), consume (v), deplete (v), eat (v), eat up (v), exhaust (v), go through (v), use up (v), wipe out (v), work through (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Run Through

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Egress

Exude, transude; leak, run through, out through; percolate, transcolate; egurgitate; strain, distill; perspire, sweat, drain, ooze; filter, filtrate; dribble, gush, spout, flow out; well, well out; pour, trickle; (water in motion); effuse, extravasate, disembogue, discharge itself, debouch; come forth, break forth; burst out, burst through; find vent; escape.

Expenditure

Verb: expend, spend; run through, get through; pay, disburse; ante, ante up; pony up; open the purse strings, loose the purse strings, untie the purse strings; lay out, shell out, fork out, fork over; bleed; make up a sum, invest, sink money.

Influence

Run through, pervade; prevail, dominate, predominate; out weigh, over weigh; over-ride, over-bear; gain head; rage; be -rife; Adjective: spread like wildfire; have the upper hand, get the upper hand, gain the upper hand, have full play, get full play, gain full play.

Killing

Saber; cut down, cut to pieces, cut the throat; jugulate; stab, run through the body, bayonet, eviscerate; put to the sword, put to the edge of the sword.

Presence

Fill, pervade, permeate; be diffused, be disseminated, be through; over spread, overrun; run through; meet one at every turn.

Prodigality

Verb: be prodigal; Adjective: squander, lavish, sow broadcast; pour forth like water; blow, blow in; pay through the nose; (dear); spill, waste, dissipate, exhaust, drain, eat out of house and home, overdraw, outrun the constable; run out, run through; misspend; throw good money after bad, throw the helve after the hatchet; burn the candle at both ends; make ducks and drakes of one's money; fool away one's money, potter away one's money, muddle away one's money, fritter away one's money, throw away one's money, run through one's money; pour water into a sieve, kill the goose that lays the golden eggs; manger son ble en herbe.

Uniformity

Verb: be uniform; Adjective: accord with; run through. become uniform; Adjective: conform to.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Run Through

English words defined with "run through": consume, currentdepleteeat, eat up, exhaustflowstreamTo run throughuse upwipe out. (references)
Specialty definitions using "run through": Devil catch the HindmostELECTRIC RESISTANCE HEATER, engraved rollergearmanlow-nitrate barrenseismogram synthesis. (references)
Etymologies containing "run through": Percurrent. (references)

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Modern Usage: Run Through

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I want to pull my hair and run through the streets screaming. (Traffic; writing credit: Stephen Gaghan)

It sounds like the song they sang when they would run through the villages and throw the babies into the fire. (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette)

This is Eddie, your shipboard computer, and I'm feeling just great, guys, and I know I'm just going to get a bundle of kicks out of any program you care to run through me. (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd)

He blew down their house and they had to find another joint so they run through the woods and they run into Goldilocks and she took them all in to live with her and there's nothin' wrong with that because she was a nice girl and they're old anyway. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear)

That remarkable metal doesn't run through your entire body, does it? (X-Men; writing credit: Tom DeSanto; Bryan Singer)

Lyrics

Better run through the jungle, (RUN THROUGH THE JUNGLE; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival)

And run through with my gym shorts on (Pinch Me; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

The way that your fingers run through my hair (I Love The Way You Love Me; performing artist: John Michael Montgomery)

He's gonna run through the fields dreaming in animation (Birdland; performing artist: Patti Smith)

A doorway that I run through in the night (Silent Lucidity; performing artist: Queensryche)

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

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Image Slideshow: Run Through

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Run Through

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After closing the net and trapping the fish, the net is now brought on board. This is a view of the net being run through the powerblock and then laid back on the stern of the fishing vessel. Credit: Fisheries.

Comparison of Hurricanes Frances and Gloria. Wind speed and pressure plotted for transects run through the eye of both storms. Credit: Flying With NOAA.

Figure 31. Aime messenger ca. 1843. The Frenchman Georges Aime was among the fir st to systematically employ the principle of a messenger in order to communicate with submerged instruments. The messenger was sent down the line and activated some form of opening or closing mechanism on the sampling instrument. Aime used only solid messengers which had to have the line or cable run through them. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Soldiers of the 55th Armored Inf Bn, 22nd Tank Bn, 11th Armored Div, US Third Army, run through smoke filled street in Wernberg, Germany. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Familiar Quotations: Run Through

AuthorQuotation

William Shakespeare

A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Run Through

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

It seemed to him, merely, that the dreary space which remained for him to run through was contracting with every instant.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Run Through

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Training will run through to September 2000. The DLT itself annually tests all buses and trucks registered in Thailand. (references)

This project is expected to run through 2036, with oil and gas production capacity peaking at 12 million tons per year and 25 billion cubic meters per year, respectively. (references)

Economic History

Chile

Mining is expected to grow five percent annually on the long run through 2005 with projected investments exceeding six billion dollars for this period. (references)

Political Economy

Ecuador

Because it will run through the northern Colombian border region, the potential for further violence instigated by Colombian terrorist groups exists. (references)

Trade

New Zealand

The Government has approved plans to set up a new retail bank called The Peoples Bank, which will feature lower fees and run through the Postal Shop outlets. (references)

Women

Finland

In 1997 the Government began a special program to promote women's equality during the period from 1997-99 and the program was renewed in 1999 to run through the year. (references)

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

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Expressions: Run Through

Expressions using "run through": run through again To run through. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Run Through

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Run Through

Language Translations for "run through"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

të pamë (sight, vision), shpoj (bore, broach, drill, drive, flesh, hole, impale, jab, perforate, Pierce, pink, poke, prick, prickle, punch, puncture, Spike, spit, stab, stick, sting), provë (assay, audition, averment, demonstration, evidence, experiment, fact, fitting, flier, prill, probation, prolusion, proof, reasoning, rehearsal, rush, school, seal, sign, substantiation, taste, tasting, test, touch, trial, try, try on, try out, witness). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏عبر بسرعة, ‏أكل (bite, eat, manage), ‏بذر (blow, disseminate, dissipate, drill, fritter, inseminate, sow, sowing, spend, squander, waste). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

свършвам набързо (scurry through, toss off), мяркам се (float, show up), зачертавам (obliterate), бърза репетиция, бегъл преглед, просвирвам (play, play back, replay), прожектирам (project, screen), пробождам (impale, jab, prong, puncture, skewer, stick, thrust through, transfix), пропилявам (fritter away, misspend, muddle away, riot away, spend, wanton), преминавам бързо през, преповтарям набързо. (various references)

   

Czech

  

probìhnout (go through). (various references)

   

Danish

  

ved forlaenget gloedning under belastning forener MC-partiklerne sig ofte til kaedeformede karbider,som fortrinsvis loeber gennem austenitkornene i de moerkere aetsende omraader (after long reheating times under stress, the MC carbides very often form chains of particles, which run through the austenite grains within the darker regions). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

tijdens langdurig gloeien onder belasting vormen de MC-carbiden vaak ketens die in de donker gekleurde gebieden door de austenietkristallen lopen (after long reheating times under stress, the MC carbides very often form chains of particles, which run through the austenite grains within the darker regions). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

hävittää omaisuutensa (run through one's fortune). (various references)

   

French

  

répéter, traverser en courant (run across), passer en courant, parcourir (run down), manger, gaspiller. (various references)

   

German

  

durchziehen (come through, draw through, follow out, get through, go through, go through with, pass through, pervade, pull, pull through, push through, put through, seam, thread, to draw through, to traverse), durchstechen (cut through, Pierce, prick, puncture, stab, stick through, to transfix, transfix, transfixes), durchlaufen (go through, pass through, run without stopping, to traverse, travers, wear through), durchgehen (be allowed, be non-stop, be passed, be tolerated, bolt, check through, comb through, come through, cover, elope, go over, go through, pass through, peruse, run off, sift, slip by, slip past, to peruse, walk through), durchführen (accomplish, carry out, conduct, develop, enforce, execute, go through, hold, implement, instrument, lay through, lead through, prosecute, pursue, put through, realize, run, take, take through, to effect, to realize, transact, undertake), durchbohren (bore, drill through, Gore, pierce, puncture, spear, Spike, to transfix, transfix), aufspießen (Gore, impale, pin, prong, skewer, spear, Spike). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εξετάζω γρήγορα. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

utánaszalasztás, átnéz (go over, look into, review, revise, to go through, to look into, to look over, to look through, to review, to revise, to sub). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ripetere (echo, iterate, recur, repeat, replay, replicate, retry, rollback, say), ricapitolare (recap, recapitulate, run over, sum up, summarise, summarize), prova generale, infilzare (stick, string, transfix), infilare (enfilade, insert, penetrate, plug, poke, pop, slip, slip on, squeeze, stick, string, thread, thread one's way, transfix, tuck), dare un'occhiata (glance, look, scan). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

走り抜ける (to run through), 走り抜く (to outrun, to run through to the end), 駆け抜ける (to run past from behind, to run through), 食い潰す (to run through one's fortune in idleness). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

くいつぶす (to run through one's fortune in idleness), かけぬける (to run past from behind, to run through), はしりぬける (to run through), はしりぬく (to outrun, to run through to the end). (various references)

   

Manx

  

roight (impaled), roie trooid (rattle off). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

unray oughthray

   

Portuguese

  

riscar (blue-pencil, dele, line, score, scratch, scribe), transpassar, passar por (come by, go through, live through, purport, run by, suffer, travel, undergo), gastar (batter, consume, disburse, expend, go, pay out, run out of, scuff, serve, spend, take, waste), espalhar (bestrew, blow, buzz, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, drift, drop, flecker, fleece, fling, intersperse, noise, overblow, overspread, promulgate, propagate, publish, put about, retail, rumor, rumour, scatter, send, sow, spill, sprawl, spread, stretch, strew). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

репетиция (rehearsal, repetition, try out, try-out), просмотр (revise, run-through, scan, supervision), истощаться (run short, spend, wear out). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

protrčati (run over), probosti (jab, lance, stab, transfix, transpierce), probiti (break out, break through, clear, cleave, come through, elbow, fight, force, go through, penetrate, pierce, plow, poke, ram, stave in, thrust, wedge), proćerdati (dissipate, squander, waste), brzo pregledati (scan, skim), brza proba, brz pregled. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

traspasar dentro (Pierce), hojear (browse, leaf, leaf through, look through, scan, skim through, thumb, thumb through), gastar (burn, cash, consume, expend, get through, go through, lay out, outwear, part with, pay out, play, sink, spend, sport, squander, waste, wear, wear away, wear down, wear out, wear through), espetar (Pierce, rap out, skewer, snap out, spit, transfix, truss). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

repetition (dry run, dummy run, rehearsal, repetition, revision), genomlöpa (live through, pass through), gå igenom (get through, go through, pass, pervade, pick over, review, take, work over). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

saplamak (dig into, drive, jab, Lodge, pink, plunge, stab, stick, stick into, strike in, strike inwards, thrust), delik açmak (bore, dig a hole, drill, hole, honeycomb, make a hole in, Pierce, ream, ream out, slot, vent), çizgi çekmek (draw a line, line through, rule, score). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

репетиція (rehearsal, try out), проткнути, перегляд (overhaul, reconsideration, rethink, revision, scan). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Run Through

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

adnumerati, adnumeratur, adnumeratus, adnumeravit, percurrat, percurrentes. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Run Through

LanguageDateSource2 Samuel Chapter 22, Verse 30
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintOti en soi dramoumai monozwnoV kai en tw qew mou uperbhsomai teicoV
Latin405VulgateIn te enim curram accinctus in Deo meo transiliam murum
Middle English1395WyclifInto thee forsothe I shall renne, gird vp; and in my God I shal ouerleep the wal.
Jacobean English1611King JamesFor by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall.
Victorian English1833WebsterFor by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall.
Basic English1964OgdenBy your help I have made a way through the wall which was shutting me in: by the help of my God I have gone over a wall.

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

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Matched Bible Translations: Run Through

Language2 Samuel Chapter 22, Verse 30
CebuanoKay pinaagi kanimo ako makaasdang sa usa ka panon nga sundalo; Pinaagi sa akong Dios ako nakalukso sa ibabaw sa usa ka kuta.
Croatians tobom udaram na èete dušmanske, s Bogom svojim preskaèem zidine.
DanishThi ved din Hjælp søndrer jeg Mure, ved min Guds Hjælp springer jeg over Volde.
DutchWant met U loop ik door een bende; met mijn God spring ik over een muur.
FinnishSinun avullasi minä hyökkään rosvojoukkoa vastaan, Jumalani avulla minä ryntään ylitse muurin.
FrenchAvec toi je me précipite sur une troupe en armes, Avec mon Dieu je franchis une muraille.
GermanDenn mit dir kann ich Kriegsvolk zerschlagen und mit meinem Gott über die Mauer springen.
Haitian CreoleAvè ou, mwen fonse sou bann lènmi m' yo ki ame jouk nan dan. Avè ou, mwen eskalade miray ki sèvi yo defans.
HungarianMert veled harczi seregen is átfutok, &Az én Istenemmel kõfalon is átugrom.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariEngkau menguatkan aku untuk menumpas musuh; dengan bantuan Allahku kudobrak pertahanan mereka.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaBahkan, dengan Engkau juga berani aku menempuh satu pasukan dan dengan Allahku aku melompat pagar tembok.
ItalianSì, con te io posso affrontare una schiera, con il mio Dio posso slanciarmi sulle mura.
MaoriNau hoki ahau i rere ai ki runga ki te ropu: na toku Atua ka peke ahau i te taiepa.
NorwegianFor ved dig stormer jeg løs på fiendeskarer, ved min Gud springer jeg over murer.
PortuguesePois contigo passarei pelo meio dum esquadrão; com o meu Deus transporei um muro.   
RumanianCu Tine mq nqpustesc asupra unei owti knarmate, cu Dumnezeul meu sar peste zid.
SpanishContigo desbarataré ejércitos; con mi Dios saltaré murallas.

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

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Anagrams: Run Through

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-3 letters: outrung, through, unrough.

-4 letters: hognut, nought, outgun, outrun, runout, though, throng, trough, turgor, unhurt.

-5 letters: grout, grunt, north, ought, rough, routh, thong, thorn, tough, ungot.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Familiar
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Translations: Ancient
14. Bible Trace
15. Anagrams
16. Bibliography


  

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