running

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of run

1. not comparableMoving or advancing at a run.
   1. not comparableOf a horse, having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
2. not comparablePresent, current.

   running month

3. not comparableFlowing; easy; cursive.

   running handwriting

4. not comparableContinuous; ongoing; keeping along step by step.

   a running commentary, a running explanation, my running theory

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   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, […] , →OCLC

   What are art and science if not a running commentary on Nature?

   1826, Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers

5. not comparableHaving a continuous design or pattern.

   running bond; running ornament

6. not comparableConsecutive (much more commonly expressed by an adverb; see below).

   He won the title for three running years.

7. not comparablebiologyExtending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.

   a running vine

8. not comparablemedicineDischarging pus.

   a running sore

9. not comparablemedicineDischarging snot or mucus.

   a running nose

   Synonyms: runny

1. informalnot comparableConsecutively; in a row.

   Mom's strawberry jam won the blue ribbon at the Holland County Fair three years running.

plural runnings

1. countableuncountableThe action of the verb to run.

   His running of the business leaves something to be desired.

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   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. countableuncountableThe activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason.

   Running is good exercise.

3. countableuncountableThat which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.

   the first running of a still

4. countableuncountableThe discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
5. colloquialcountableuncountableThe act of running errands.

   I'm gonna go out and do my running.

6. countableuncountablenatural sciencesThe dependence of measured value, typically a coupling constant, on the energy scale at which it is probed due to higher-order interaction terms and associated renormalization issues becoming relevant; metaphorically, the "running" of the measurement from its limiting macroscopic value.

1. colloquialApproaching; about; roughly.

plural Runnings

1. A surname.