running
/ˈɹʌnɪŋ/ noun A2- The action of the verb to run. · His running of the business leaves something to be desired.
- The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason. · Running is good exercise.
- That 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
- The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
- The act of running errands. · I'm gonna go out and do my running.
- The 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.
Plural runnings
From the library
“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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