Definitions of Runner [ˈrʌn ər]

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Definition of 'Runner'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) runner
a person, animal, or thing that runs, esp. as a racer.

2.  runner
a messenger, esp. of a bank or brokerage house.

3.  runner
Baseball.

4.  runner
Football. the ball-carrier.

5.  runner
a smuggler.

6.  runner
a vessel engaged in smuggling.

7.  runner
a person who takes and often pays off bets for a bookmaker.

8.  runner
either of the long, bladelike strips of metal or wood on which a sled or sleigh slides.

9.  runner
the blade of an ice skate.

10.  runner
a long, narrow rug.

11.  runner
a long, narrow strip of fabric used to adorn the top of a table, bureau, etc.

12.  runner
a guiding or supporting strip for something that slides, as a drawer or sliding door.

13.  runner
Bot.

14.  runner
a slender stolon that runs along the surface of the ground and sends out roots and leaves at the nodes, as in the strawberry.

15.  runner
a plant that spreads by such stems.

16.  runner
Metall.

17.  runner
any of the channels in which molten metal flows from the furnace.

18.  runner
a tackle consisting of a line rove through a single block and fixed at one end.

Etymology: (1780–90)

Definition of 'Runner'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) smuggler, runner, contrabandist, moon curser, moon-curser
someone who imports or exports without paying duties

2. (noun) runner
someone who travels on foot by running

3. (noun) runner
a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents
"he sent a runner over with the contract"

4. (noun) base runner, runner
a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)

5. (noun) stolon, runner, offset
a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips

6. (noun) runner
a trained athlete who competes in foot races

7. (noun) ball carrier, runner
(football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play

8. (noun) runner
a long narrow carpet

9. (noun) runner
device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along

10. (noun) runner, blue runner, Caranx crysos
fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil

Definition of 'Runner'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) runner
sb who runs in competitions or for exercise
the runner in first place

2. runner
sb who transports illegal goods from one place to another
a drug runner

Definition of 'Runner'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Runner
one who, or that which, runs; a racer

2. (noun) Runner
a detective

3. (noun) Runner
a messenger

4. (noun) Runner
a smuggler

5. (noun) Runner
one employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc

6. (noun) Runner
a slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil

7. (noun) Runner
the rotating stone of a set of millstones

8. (noun) Runner
a rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle

9. (noun) Runner
one of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice

10. (noun) Runner
a horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel

11. (noun) Runner
a trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed

12. (noun) Runner
the movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached

13. (noun) Runner
a food fish (Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water

14. (noun) Runner
any cursorial bird

15. (noun) Runner
a movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone

16. (noun) Runner
a tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding

Translation of 'Runner'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a person who runs There are five runners in this race.
Afrikaans: drawwer	Arabic: عَدّاء، مُتَسابِق في العَ	Bulgarian: бегач
Brazilian: corredor	Czech: běžec, -kyně	German: der/die Läufer(in)
Danish: løber	Greek: δρομέας	Spanish: corredor
Estonian: jooksja	Farsi: دونده	Finnish: juoksija
French: coureur/-euse	Hebrew: רַץ	Hindi: दौड़ाक, धावक‍
Croatian: trkač	Hungarian: futó	Indonesian: pelari
Icelandic: hlaupari	Italian: corridore	Japanese: 走者
Korean: 주자	Lithuanian: bėgikas, pasiuntinys	Latvian: skrējējs
Malay: pelari	Dutch: hardloper	Norwegian: løper
Polish: biegacz	Persian: دونده	Pashto: منډه وهونکی
Portuguese: corredor	Romanian: alergător	Russian: бегун
Slovak: bežec, -kyňa	Slovenian: tekač	Serbian: trkač
Swedish: löpare	Thai: ผู้วิ่ง	Turkish: koşucu
Taiwanese: 賽跑選手	Ukrainian: бігун	Urdu: دوڑنے والا
Vietnamese: người chạy	Chinese: 赛跑的人
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