run·ner (r n  r)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. |
runner [ˈrʌnə]
n
1. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Athletics (Track & Field)) a person who runs, esp an athlete
2. (Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) (Business / Professions) a messenger for a bank or brokerage firm
3. (Business / Commerce) (Business / Professions) an employee of an art or antique dealer who visits auctions to bid on desired lots
4. (Business / Commerce) a person engaged in the solicitation of business
5. a person on the run; fugitive
6.
a. a person or vessel engaged in smuggling; smuggler
b. (in combination) a rum-runner
7. a person who operates, manages, or controls something
8. (Individual Sports, other than specified) (Individual Sports & Recreations / Ice Skating)
a. either of the strips of metal or wood on which a sledge runs
b. the blade of an ice skate
9. (Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) a roller or guide for a sliding component
10. (Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) a channel through which molten material enters a casting or moulding
11. (Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) the rotating element of a water turbine
12. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Mountaineering) another name for running belay
13. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various carangid fishes of temperate and tropical seas, such as Caranx crysos (blue runner) of American Atlantic waters
14. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany
a. a slender stem with very long internodes, as of the strawberry, that arches down to the ground and propagates by producing roots and shoots at the nodes or tip
b. a plant that propagates in this way
15. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) a strip of lace, linen, etc., placed across a table, dressing table, etc. for protection and decoration
16. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) a narrow rug or carpet, as for a passage
17. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Furniture) another word for rocker (on a rocking chair)
do a runner Slang to run away in order to escape trouble or to avoid paying for something
| runner (rnr) |
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
| Noun | 1. |  runner - someone who imports or exports without paying dutiescoyote - 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 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" | |
| 4. |  runner - a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)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 tipsplant organ - a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus | |
| 6. | runner - a trained athlete who competes in foot races 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 playfootball, 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 10. | runner - fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil jack - any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas |
runner
noun
2. messenger, courier, errand boy, dispatch bearer a bookie's runner
3. (Botany) stem, shoot, sprout, sprig, offshoot, tendril, stolon (Botany) strawberry runners
do a runner run away, escape, flee, take off, bolt, run off, clear out, beat it (slang), abscond, decamp, take flight, hook it (slang), scarper (Brit. slang), cut and run (informal), make a run for it, do a bunk (Brit. slang), scram (informal), fly the coop (U.S. & Canad. informal), show a clean pair of heels, skedaddle (informal), take a powder (U.S. & Canad. slang), take it on the lam (U.S. & Canad. slang) The accountant did a runner.
Translations
runner [ˈrʌnəʳ]
A. N
1. (= athlete) → corredor(a) m/f; (= horse) (in race) → caballo m; (= messenger) → mensajero/a m/f (Mil) → ordenanza mf (Fin) → corredor(a) m/f
5. to do a runner → largarse(sin pagar)
B. CPD runner bean N (Brit) → judía f (escarlata), habichuela f
runner [ˈrʌnər] n
(= person) (in race, for pleasure) → coureur/euse m/f
He's a fast runner → C'est un coureur rapide.
I am a very keen runner
BUT Je fais beaucoup de course à pied.
a marathon runner → un(e) coureur/euse m/f de marathon
He's a fast runner → C'est un coureur rapide.
I am a very keen runner
BUT Je fais beaucoup de course à pied.
a marathon runner → un(e) coureur/euse m/f de marathon
(= horse) → partant m
(on sledge) → patin m
(for drawer) → glissière f
(= messenger) → messager/ère m/f
to do a runner (British) → prendre la poudre d'escampette
runner bean n (British) → haricot m d'Espagne
runner-up [ˌrʌnərˈʌp] n (coming second) → finaliste mf
runner bean n (British) → haricot m d'Espagne
runner-up [ˌrʌnərˈʌp] n (coming second) → finaliste mf
runner
n
(= athlete) → Läufer(in) m(f); (= horse) → Rennpferd nt; (= messenger) → Bote m, → Botin f, → Laufbursche m; (= smuggler) → Schmuggler(in) m(f); (Bow Street) Runners (Brit, Hist) → ˜ Büttel pl; it’s a good runner, this car (inf) → das Auto läuft wirklich einwandfrei
(on sledge, skate) → Kufe f; (for curtain) → Vorhangröllchen nt; (for drawer, machine part) → Laufschiene f
(= carpet, for table) → Läufer m
(Bot) → Ausläufer m
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