running

Meaning

1. present participle and gerund of run
2. Moving or advancing at a run.
3. Of a horse, having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
4. Present, current.
5. Flowing; easy; cursive.
6. Continuous; ongoing; keeping along step by step.
7. Having a continuous design or pattern.
8. Consecutive (much more commonly expressed by an adverb; see below).
9. Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.
10. Discharging pus.
11. Discharging snot or mucus.
12. Consecutively; in a row.
13. The action of the verb to run.
14. The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason.
15. That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.
16. The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
17. The act of running errands.
18. 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.
19. Approaching; about; roughly.
20. A surname.

Etymology / origin

By surface analysis, run + -ing.

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