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Definition: Run Through |
Run ThroughNoun1. 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". Verb1. 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 ThroughSynonyms: 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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Run Through |
| English words defined with "run through": consume, current ♦ deplete ♦ eat, eat up, exhaust ♦ flow ♦ stream ♦ To run through ♦ use up ♦ wipe out. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "run through": Devil catch the Hindmost ♦ ELECTRIC RESISTANCE HEATER, engraved roller ♦ gearman ♦ low-nitrate barren ♦ seismogram synthesis. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "run through": Percurrent. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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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. |
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| Author | Quotation |
William Shakespeare | A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart. |
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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. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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) |
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Expressions using "run through": run through again ♦ To run through. Additional references. | |
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| 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 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) репетиция (rehearsal, repetition, try out, try-out), просмотр (revise, run-through, scan, supervision), истощаться (run short, spend, wear out). (various references) 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) 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) 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) 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) репетиція (rehearsal, try out), проткнути, перегляд (overhaul, reconsideration, rethink, revision, scan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adnumerati, adnumeratur, adnumeratus, adnumeravit, percurrat, percurrentes. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | 2 Samuel Chapter 22, Verse 30 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Oti en soi dramoumai monozwnoV kai en tw qew mou uperbhsomai teicoV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | In te enim curram accinctus in Deo meo transiliam murum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Into thee forsothe I shall renne, gird vp; and in my God I shal ouerleep the wal. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | By 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. |
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| Language | 2 Samuel Chapter 22, Verse 30 |
| Cebuano | Kay pinaagi kanimo ako makaasdang sa usa ka panon nga sundalo; Pinaagi sa akong Dios ako nakalukso sa ibabaw sa usa ka kuta. |
| Croatian | s tobom udaram na èete dušmanske, s Bogom svojim preskaèem zidine. |
| Danish | Thi ved din Hjælp søndrer jeg Mure, ved min Guds Hjælp springer jeg over Volde. |
| Dutch | Want met U loop ik door een bende; met mijn God spring ik over een muur. |
| Finnish | Sinun avullasi minä hyökkään rosvojoukkoa vastaan, Jumalani avulla minä ryntään ylitse muurin. |
| French | Avec toi je me précipite sur une troupe en armes, Avec mon Dieu je franchis une muraille. |
| German | Denn mit dir kann ich Kriegsvolk zerschlagen und mit meinem Gott über die Mauer springen. |
| Haitian Creole | Avè ou, mwen fonse sou bann lènmi m' yo ki ame jouk nan dan. Avè ou, mwen eskalade miray ki sèvi yo defans. |
| Hungarian | Mert veled harczi seregen is átfutok, &Az én Istenemmel kõfalon is átugrom. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Engkau menguatkan aku untuk menumpas musuh; dengan bantuan Allahku kudobrak pertahanan mereka. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahkan, dengan Engkau juga berani aku menempuh satu pasukan dan dengan Allahku aku melompat pagar tembok. |
| Italian | Sì, con te io posso affrontare una schiera, con il mio Dio posso slanciarmi sulle mura. |
| Maori | Nau hoki ahau i rere ai ki runga ki te ropu: na toku Atua ka peke ahau i te taiepa. |
| Norwegian | For ved dig stormer jeg løs på fiendeskarer, ved min Gud springer jeg over murer. |
| Portuguese | Pois contigo passarei pelo meio dum esquadrão; com o meu Deus transporei um muro. |
| Rumanian | Cu Tine mq nqpustesc asupra unei owti knarmate, cu Dumnezeul meu sar peste zid. |
| Spanish | Contigo desbarataré ejércitos; con mi Dios saltaré murallas. |
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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. | |
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