Runner
['rʌnə] or ['rʌnɚ]
Definition
(noun.) fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil.
(noun.) device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along.
(noun.) a long narrow carpet.
(noun.) a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents; 'he sent a runner over with the contract'.
(noun.) someone who travels on foot by running.
(noun.) a trained athlete who competes in foot races.
Editor: Robert--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
(n.) A detective.
(n.) A messenger.
(n.) A smuggler.
(n.) One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The rotating stone of a set of millstones.
(n.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.
(n.) One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.
(n.) The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Any cursorial bird.
(n.) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.
(n.) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.
Typist: Vivienne
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Racer.[2]. Messenger, courier.[3]. Footman, foot-boy, livery servant.
Inputed by Jeanine
Examples
- Furthermore, I could see from the shortness of his legs that the brute himself was no jumper and probably no runner. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- In my school-days I had been a noted runner, and I had not wanted for practice since in the later time of my experience in Central America. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Come, Mr Maurice—are you a runner? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The cars slide as smoothly along as if they were on runners. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I believe in the proud angels and the demons that are our fore-runners. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Savannah was one of the points where blockade runners entered. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Two English blockade runners came in at night. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This was essential because New Berne was a port into which blockade runners could enter. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It's the runners! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- They were both good runners--the road was smooth and level, and for the first five minutes or more I was conscious that I did not gain on them. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The luge is a common sled with runners. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
Edited by Jason