Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Past tense of run.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Preterit of run.
- n. Open robbery and rapine; force; violence.
- n. A song.
- n. The hank of a string.
- n. In ropemaking, twenty cords of twine wound on a reel, every cord being so parted by a knot as to be easily separated from the others.
- n. Nautical, yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.
- n. Same as runn.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- imp. of run.
- n. obsolete Open robbery.
- n. (Naut.) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.
Examples
“Once I ran to you, I ran� GROSS: Ed Ward lives in the south of France and blogs at wardinfrance. blogspot.com.”
“Clarionlike, clear as the chimes of a silver bell, rang now that childish voice -- rang out, and rang out again -- and the crutch was gone -- and the lame boy ran, ran -- _ran_!”
“#singleinstance, force ttl = My Puzzle gui, +lastfound loop, 16 loop random, ran, 1, 16 if rannum not contains -- % ran% -- rannum = % rannum% ` n-- % ran% -- break if ran!”
“Because he didn't take many big risks during the boom, Mr. Trump survived the latest downturn relatively unscathed, although many projects that bore his name ran into problems.”
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“George Bush was still at it a quarter-century later as his term ran out.”
“But more importantly, even if he was democratically elected, his term ran out a couple of years ago.”
“This was unexpected because it was supposed to go to $39.99 when the term ran out.”
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“The title ran for three issues from May 1960 to Sep 1960.”
“Her name ran through his mind like an echoing plea for salvation.”
“To McCoy's surprise, his name ran down the length of the left column and disappeared off the screen.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ran’.
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EN - 3-letter words of the pattern CVC
With the exception of abbreviations and mosaic words all types of words (proper names, past tense of verbs, etc.) are allowed.
for, was, not, his, but, has, had, can, her, him, new, now and 339 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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3 Letter Words
A list of English words that are three letters long.
ace, act, ade, ado, add, ads, age, ago, ail, air, aim, all and 397 more...
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3LW
3 letter words, not the girl band.
boggle and speed scrabble would not be half as fun without them.aah, boa, dot, fun, ick, log, oca, pyx, sos, was, aal, bob and 342 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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dlarson's Words
eudaimonia, sans, brash, frankly, superfluous, lexical, teleology, polyglot, apfelstrudel, disposed, disport, cipher and 73 more...
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Danagrams
void, relearn, rain, reordain, evil, divine, real, evildoer, varied, role, rare, dire and 85 more...
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chimes at midnight, the trial, touch of evil, fanny and alexander, scenes from a mar..., three colors: red, the third man, notorious, band of outsiders, happy together, double indemnity, persona and 67 more...
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tl6868's Words
peppy, ascertain, abbreviation, hyphen, prolific, dopey, sleepy, iron, ironic, rony, irony, excommunicate and 49 more...
Tweets
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nuxiy Norwegian for robbery Mar 27, 2009