running
/ˈɹʌnɪŋ/ adjective A1- Moving or advancing at a run.
- Of a horse, having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
- Present, current. · running month
- Flowing; easy; cursive. · running handwriting
- Continuous; ongoing; keeping along step by step. · a running commentary, a running explanation, my running theory
- Having a continuous design or pattern. · running bond; running ornament
- Consecutive (much more commonly expressed by an adverb; see below). · He won the title for three running years.
- Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem. · a running vine
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“It ought to be over running water.
We’ll just imagine this path is running water.
A STAG, roundly chased by the hounds and blinded by fear to the danger he was running into, took shelter in a farmyard and hid himself in a shed among the oxen.
The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it.
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