runners

[Run·ner]

If you jog every morning or run with your school's cross country team, you're a runner. A runner is a person who runs.

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One who, or that which, runs; a racer.

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fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil

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device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along

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a long narrow carpet

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a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)

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a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents; "he sent a runner over with the contract"

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someone who travels on foot by running

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a trained athlete who competes in foot races

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someone who imports or exports without paying duties

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a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips


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One who, or that which, runs; a racer.

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A detective.

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A messenger.

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A smuggler.

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One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc.

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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.

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The rotating stone of a set of millstones.

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A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.

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One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.

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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.

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A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.

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The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.

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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.

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Any cursorial bird.

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A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.

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A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.


Runner

Run"ner , n. [From Run.] 1. One who, or that which, runs; a racer. 2. A detective. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens. 3. A messenger. Swift. 4. A smuggler. [Colloq.] R. North. 5. One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. [Cant, U.S.] 6. (Bot.) 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. The rotating stone of a set of millstones. 8. (Naut.) A rope through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle. Totten. 9. 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. (Founding) (a) 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. (b) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed. 11. The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached. 12. (Zo'94l.) A food fish (Elagatis pinnulatis) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water. 13. (Zo'94l.) Any cursorial bird. 14. (Mech.) (a) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone. (b) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.

One who, or that which, runs; a racer.

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Usage Examples

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.

Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.

I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.

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