runner

run·ner  (rnr)

n.

1. Sports One who competes in a race.

2.

a. Baseball One who runs the bases.

b. Football One who carries the ball.

3. A fugitive.

4. One who carries messages or runs errands.

5. One who serves as an agent or collector, as for a bank or brokerage house.

6. One who solicits business, as for a hotel or store.

7.

a. A smuggler: a narcotics runner.

b. A vessel engaged in smuggling.

8. One who operates or manages something: the runner of a series of gambling operations.

9. A device in or on which something slides or moves, as:

a. The blade of a skate.

b. The supports on which a drawer slides.

10. A long narrow carpet.

11. A long narrow tablecloth.

12. A roller towel.

13. Metallurgy A channel along which molten metal is poured into a mold; a gate.

14. Botany

a. A slender creeping stem that puts forth roots from nodes spaced at intervals along its length.

b. A plant, such as the strawberry, having such a stem.

c. A twining vine, such as the scarlet runner.

15. Any of several marine fishes of the family Carangidae, especially the blue runner (Caranx crysos), of temperate waters of the American Atlantic coast. Also called blue runner.

16. Sports See flat¹.

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runner

Noun

1. a competitor in a race

2. a messenger for a firm

3. a person involved in smuggling

4.

a. either of the strips of metal or wood on which a sledge runs

b. the blade of an ice skate

5. Bot a slender horizontal stem of a plant, such as the strawberry, that grows along the surface of the soil and produces new roots and shoots

6. a long strip of cloth used to decorate a table or as a rug

7. a roller or guide for a sliding component

8. do a runner Slang to run away to escape trouble or to avoid paying for something

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runner  (rnr)

A slender stem that grows horizontally and puts down roots to form new plants. Strawberries spread by runners. Also called stolon. Compare bulbcormrhizometuber

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	runner - someone who imports or exports without paying duties contrabandist, moon curser, moon-curser, smuggler coyote - someone who smuggles illegal immigrants into the United States (usually across the Mexican border) criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw - someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime arms-runner, gunrunner - a smuggler of guns rumrunner - someone who illegally smuggles liquor across a border
	2.	runner - someone who travels on foot by running traveler, traveller - a person who changes location jogger - someone who runs a steady slow pace (usually for exercise)
	3.	runner - a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents; "he sent a runner over with the contract" courier, messenger - a person who carries a message
	4.	runner - a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base) base runner baseball, baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" ballplayer, baseball player - an athlete who plays baseball
	5.	runner - a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips stolon, offset plant organ - a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus
	6.	runner - a trained athlete who competes in foot races athlete, jock - a person trained to compete in sports long-distance runner, marathon runner, marathoner, road runner - someone who participates in long-distance races (especially in marathons) miler - a runner in a one-mile race sprinter - someone who runs a short distance at top speed
	7.	runner - (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play ball carrier football, football game - any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal football player, footballer - an athlete who plays American football forward passer, passer - (football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by throwing a forward pass rusher - (football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by running with the ball
	8.	runner - a long narrow carpet carpet, carpeting, rug - floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile)
	9.	runner - device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along blade - the part of the skate that slides on the ice device - an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose; "the device is small enough to wear on your wrist"; "a device intended to conserve water" ski - narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used in pairs for gliding over snow sled, sledge, sleigh - a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow
	10.	runner - fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil blue runner, Caranx crysos jack - any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas

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runner

noun 1. athlete, miler, sprinter, harrier, jogger

noun 2. messenger, courier, errand boy, dispatch bearer

noun 3. Botany stem, shoot, sprout, sprig, offshoot, tendril, stolon Botany

Translations

runner [ˈrʌnəʳ] n (in race) (person) → corredor(a) m/f: (horse) → caballo;

(on sledge) → patín m;

(wheel) → ruedecilla

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runner [ˈrʌnəʳ] n (in race) (= person); coureur/euse: (= horse); partant m;

(on sledge) → patin m;

(for drawer etc) → coulisseau m (= carpet) (in hall etc) → chemin m

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runner [ˈrʌnəʳ] n → Läufer(in) m(f);

(horse) → Rennpferd nt;

(on sledge, drawer etc) → Kufe f

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runner [ˈrʌnəʳ] n (in race) → corridore m;

(on sledge) → pattino;

(for drawer etc), (carpet) → guida