Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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run

/ɹʌn/ verb, noun, adjective

Forms runs running ran runnest ranst rannest runneth rin ren

  1. verb (intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. “Run, and you might still catch the train!”
  2. verb (intransitive) To go at a fast pace; to move quickly. “I have been running all over the building looking for him.”
  3. verb (transitive) To cover (a course or a distance) by running. “I can run a mile, but I can't run the cross-country course.”
  4. verb (transitive) To complete a running course or event in (a given time). “I was hoping to make the team, but I didn't run the qualifying time.”
  5. verb (intransitive) To move briskly or smoothly with a motion of sliding, rolling, sweeping etc. “The shuttle runs back and forth on these rollers.”
  6. verb (transitive) To cause to move quickly or lightly. “Every day I run my dog across the field and back.”
  7. verb (transitive or intransitive) To compete in a race. “The horse will run in the Preakness next year.”
  8. verb (transitive) To transport (someone or something), notionally at a brisk pace. “Could you run me over to the store?”
  9. noun Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet. “I just got back from my morning run.”
  10. noun Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily on foot); dash or errand, trip. “I need to make a run to the store.”
  11. noun A pleasure trip. “Let's go for a run in the car.”
  12. noun Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
  13. noun Migration of fish.
  14. noun (collective) A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
  15. noun A (regular) trip or route. “The bus on the Cherry Street run is always crowded.”
  16. noun The route taken while running or skiing. “Which run did you do today?”
  17. adjective In a liquid state; melted or molten. “Put some run butter on the vegetables.”
  18. adjective Cast in a mould.
  19. adjective Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
  20. adjective (of a zoology) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.

Synonyms

gallop execute start tread ladder tally test trial footrace foot race streak running running play running game rivulet rill runnel streamlet political campaign campaign ravel discharge outpouring scat scarper turn tail lam run away hightail it bunk

Antonyms

rise riser idle

Etymology

From Middle English runnen, rennen (“to run”), alteration (due to the past participle runne, runnen,
yronne) of Middle English rinnen (“to run”), from Old English rinnan, iernan (“to run”) and Old Norse rinna (“to run”), both from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną (“to run”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“to boil, churn”).
Cognate with Scots rin (“to run”), West Frisian rinne (“to walk, march”), archaic Dutch rinnen (“to flow”, still in geronnen), German rinnen (“to flow”), Swedish rinna (“to flow”), and Icelandic renna (“to flow”). From the causative Proto-Germanic *rannijaną (“to make run”) are Dutch rennen, German rennen, Danish rende, Swedish ränna (all “to run”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian rend (“to run, run after”), Persian راندن (rândan, “to move, set in motion”). See also random.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To move, proceed, advance, pass, go, come, etc., swiftly, smoothly, or with quick action; --said of things animate or inanimate. Hence, to flow, glide, or roll onward, as a stream, a snake, a wagon, etc.; to move by quicker action than in walking, as a person, a horse, a dog. Specifically: --
  2. verb Of voluntary or personal action: (a) To go swiftly; to pass at a swift pace; to hasten.
  3. verb To cause to run (in the various senses of Run, v. i.); as, to run a horse; to run a stage; to run a machine; to run a rope through a block.
  4. verb To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.

Etymology [OE. rinnen, rennen (imp. ran, p.p. runnen, ronnen). AS. rinnan to flow (imp. ran, p.p. gerunnen), and iernan, irnan, to run (imp. orn, arn, earn, p.p. urnen); akin to D. runnen, renne, OS. & OHG. rinnan, G. rinnen, rennen, Icel. renna, rinna, Sw. rinna, ränna, Dan. rinde, rende, Goth. rinnan, and perh. to L. oriri to rise, Gr. Origin), or perh. to L. rivus brook (cf. Rival). *11. Cf. Ember, a., Rennet.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “run”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “run” (best matches first).

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