You can make 6 words from run according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
All 3 letters words made out of run
run urn rnu nru unr nur
Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word run. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in run.
Definitions and meaning of run
run
Translingual
Symbol
run
(international standards)ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Kirundi.
Alternative forms
rin, ren(dialectal)
Etymology
From Middle Englishrunnen, rennen(“to run”), alteration (due to the past participle runne, runnen,
yronne) of Middle Englishrinnen(“to run”), from Old Englishrinnan, iernan(“to run”) and Old Norserinna(“to run”), both from Proto-Germanic*rinnaną(“to run”) (compare also *rannijaną(“to make run”)), from Proto-Indo-European*h₃reyH-(“to boil, churn”).
Cognate with Scotsrin(“to run”), West Frisianrinne(“to walk, march”), Dutchrennen(“to run, race”), Alemannic Germanränne(“to run”), Germanrennen(“to run, race”), rinnen(“to flow”), Rhein, Danishrende(“to run”), Swedishränna(“to run”), Swedishrinna(“to flow”), Icelandicrenna(“to flow”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanianrend(“to run, run after”). See random.
Pronunciation
(General American, UK) IPA(key): /ɹʌn/
(Northern England, Ireland) IPA(key): /ɹʊn/
Rhymes: -ʌn
Verb
run (third-person singular simple presentruns, present participlerunning, simple pastran, past participlerun)
To move swiftly.
(intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.)
For more quotations using this term, see Citations:run.
(intransitive) To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
(transitive) To cause to move quickly or lightly.
(transitive or intransitive) To compete in a race.
(transitive) To transport (someone or something), notionally at a brisk pace.
(transitive, intransitive) Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
the bus (train, plane, ferry boat, etc) runs between Newport and Riverside
(transitive) To transit a length of a river, as in whitewater rafting.
(intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
(American football, transitive or intransitive) To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
(Should we delete(+) this sense?)(transitive) To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.
(intransitive) To flee from a danger or towards help.
(figurative, transitive) To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
(transitive, juggling, colloquial) To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
(fluids) To flow.
(intransitive) Of a liquid, to flow.
(intransitive, figuratively) To move or spread quickly.
(intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
(transitive) To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from or into an object.
(intransitive) To become liquid; to melt.
(intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
(nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
(transitive) To control or manage; to be in charge of.
For more quotations using this term, see Citations:run.
(intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.
To make participate in certain kinds of competitions.
(transitive) To make run in a race.
(transitive) To make run in an election.
To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
(intransitive) To be presented in the media.
(transitive) To print or broadcast in the media.
(transitive) To smuggle (illegal goods).
(transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
(intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
(intransitive) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
(transitive) To make something extend in space.
(intransitive) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
(transitive) To make a machine operate.
(transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
(copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
For more quotations using this term, see Citations:run.
(transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
(intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
(transitive) To cause stitched clothing to unravel.
1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
He took off the nylons & had runned one. He said "now I really look like a street whore!"
To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
To cause to enter; to thrust.
For more quotations using this term, see Citations:run.
To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
To control or have precedence in a card game.
To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
For more quotations using this term, see Citations:run.
(archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
To have growth or development.
To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
(golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
(video games, rare) To speedrun.
(sports, especially baseball) To eject from a game or match.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
run (pluralruns)
Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily on foot); dash or errand, trip.
1759, N. Tindal, The Continuation of Mr Rapin's History of England, volume 21 (continuation volume 9), page 92:
[…] and on the 18th of January this squadron put to sea. The first place of rendezvous was the boy of port St. Julian, upon the coast of Patagonia, and all accidents were provided against with admirable foresight. Their run to port St. Julian was dangerous […]
A pleasure trip.
Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
Migration (of fish).
A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
A literal or figurative path or course for movement relating to:
A (regular) trip or route.
1977, Star Wars (film)
You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon? It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.
The route taken while running or skiing.
(skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
The distance sailed by a ship.
A voyage.
A trial.
(mathematics, computing) The execution of a program or model
(video games, speedrunning) A playthrough, or attempted playthrough; a session of play.
Unrestricted use. Only used in have the run of.
An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
(Australia, New Zealand) A rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
State of being current; currency; popularity.
Continuous or sequential
A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
1782Frances BurneyCecilia
“[…]had had the preceding night an uncommon run of luck”.
A series of tries in a game that were successful.
A production quantity (such as in a factory).
The period of showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
(slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
1977, Richard P. Rettig, Manual J. Torres, Gerald R. Garrett, Manny: a criminal-addict's story, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) →ISBN
I was hooked on dope, and hooked bad, during this whole period, but I was also hooked behind robbery. When you're on a heroin run, you stay loaded so long as you can score.
(card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
(music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
A flow of liquid; a leak.
(chiefly eastern North Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)
A quick pace, faster than a walk.
(of horses) A fast gallop.
(banking) A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
Any sudden large demand for something.
Various horizontal dimensions or surfaces
The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
The horizontal length of a set of stairs
(construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
A standard or unexceptional group or category.
In sports
(baseball) A score when a runner touches all bases legally; the act of a runner scoring.
(cricket) The act of passing from one wicket to another; the point scored for this.
(American football) A running play.
[...] one of the greatest runs of all time.
(golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
(golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
The distance drilled with a bit, in oil drilling.
A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
(nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
(mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
A pair or set of millstones.
Synonyms
(horizontal part of a step):tread
(unravelling):ladder(British)
(computing):execute, start
See also Thesaurus:walk
Antonyms
(antonym(s) of "horizontal part of a step"):rise, riser
(antonym(s) of "horizontal distance of a set of stairs"):rise
Derived terms
Translations
See also
(computer science):trajectory
Adjective
run (not comparable)
In a liquid state; melted or molten.
Put some run butter on the vegetables.
Cast in a mould.
1833, The Cabinet Cyclopaedia: A treatise on the progressive improvement and present state of the Manufactures in Metal, volume 2, Iron and Steel (printed in London), page 314:
Vast quantities are cast in sand moulds, with that kind of run steel which is so largely used in the production of common table-knives and forks.
c.1839, (Richard of Raindale, The Plan of my House vindicated, quoted by) T. T. B. in the Dwelling of Richard of Raindale, King of the Moors, published in The Mirror, number 966, 7 September 1839, page 153:
For making tea I have a kettle,
Besides a pan made of run metal;
An old arm-chair, in which I sit well —
The back is round.
Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
(of a zoology) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.
Smuggled.
run brandy
Verb
run
past participle of rin
Anagrams
Nur, URN, nur, urn
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
run
inflection of runnen:
first-person singular present indicative
imperative
Gothic
Romanization
run
Romanization of 𐍂𐌿𐌽
Mandarin
Romanization
run
Nonstandard spelling of rún.
Nonstandard spelling of rùn.
Usage notes
Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Norman
Etymology
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Noun
runm (pluralruns)
(nautical) beam (of a ship)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
rón f, rjón n(dialectal)
Etymology
From Old Norserúnf(“rune, secret”), from Proto-Norse*ᚱᚢᚾᚢ(*runu/rūnu/), from Proto-Germanic*rūnō. Akin to Englishroun(“secret; rune”).