Definition of "running"

running

/ˈɹʌniŋ/

verb
1. present participle and gerund of run
adjective
not comparable
1. Moving or advancing at a run.
  1. Of a horse, having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
2. Present, current.
3. Flowing; easy; cursive.
4. Continuous; ongoing; keeping along step by step.
  Quotations
  Thus a constant running fire was kept up, and no interval allowed for the enemy to stand to their guns in safety […]
  1778, John Hamilton Moore, A New and Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels
  a running conquest
  1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […]
  What are art and science if not a running commentary on Nature?
  1826, Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers
5. Having a continuous design or pattern.
6. Consecutive (much more commonly expressed by an adverb; see below).
7. (botany) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.
8. (medicine) Discharging pus.
9. (medicine, of a nose) Discharging snot or mucus.
adverb
not comparable
1. (informal) Consecutively; in a row.
noun
countable and uncountable, plural runnings
1. The action of the verb to run.
  Quotations
  The train operating company owning group warned in early December that it was unable to publish its results for the year to July 3 2021, following an investigation into the running of Southeastern, which was stripped of its franchise in October [...].
  2022 January 12, “Network News: Trading of Go-Ahead Group shares halted”, in RAIL, number 948, page 7
2. The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason.
3. That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.
4. The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
5. (colloquial) The act of running errands.
preposition
1. (colloquial) Approaching; about; roughly.

Definition of "running"

running

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