run through
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See also: run-through
English
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Verb
[edit]run through (third-person singular simple present runs through, present participle running through, simple past ran through, past participle run through)
- (transitive, idiomatic) To summarise briefly.
- Synonyms: run over, sum up; see also Thesaurus:recapitulate
- Let me run through today's meeting for those who missed it.
- 2003, Joe Kraynak, The complete idiot's guide to computer basics, page 145:
- The following steps run you through a typical scanning operation using a flatbed scanner: ...
- (transitive, idiomatic, colloquial) To inform or educate someone, typically of a new concept or a concept particular to an organization or industry
- 2009, Jorge S. Olson with Carlos Lopez, Build Your Beverage Empire, page 115:
- ... we'll run you through a very quick and abbreviated process from production through bottling.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To repeat something.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To use completely, in a short space of time. Usually money.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To go through hastily.
- Synonyms: skim through, slubber
- to run through a book
- (transitive, idiomatic) To pervade, of a quality that is characteristic of a group, organisation, or system.
- Synonyms: permeate, riddle
- Fear of foreigners runs through that country at all levels of its society.
- 2019 July 11, John Thornhill, “Does tech threaten to rerun the worst of the Industrial Revolution?”, in Financial Times[1]:
- The central concern that runs through The Technology Trap is that, unless we are very careful, our latest technological revolution may well turn out to be a tumultuous rerun of the Industrial Revolution, with dire social and political consequences.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To impale a person with a blade, usually a sword.
- Synonyms: spear, transpierce; see also Thesaurus:impale, Thesaurus:stab
- Make just one move, and I'll run you through, sir, without hesitation.
- 1676, Thomas Shadwell, The libertine: a tragedy : acted by His Royal Highness's servants, page 15:
- D. Lop." Offer to flinch, and I'll run you through. Offic.: Take their Swords, or knock 'em down.
- (transitive, idiomatic, slang) To fuck.
- Synonyms: plough, service; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
- 2021 April 19, Trey R. Barker, Jonathan Brown, S.A. Cosby, John M. Floyd, Debra H. Goldstein, Gar Anthony Haywood, Penny Mickelbury, William Dylan Powell, Kimberly B. Richardson, Stacy Woodson, Jukes & Tonks: Crime Fiction Inspired by Music in the Dark and Suspect Choices[2], Down & Out Books:
- “There's a white girl, Betty Anderson, down on Cricket Hill Lane parked under them mulberry trees across from the old Carter place getting run through by a colored boy in a bright red Plymouth Fury. You might wanna get out there before Big Jim Anderson find[sic] himself with a half-breed grandchild,” […]
- (transitive, idiomatic) To continue past an intersection or a sign that is intended to cause one to stop.
- You just ran through a stop sign.
- (transitive, idiomatic) Of a waterway, to flow through an area.
- The Seine river runs through Paris.
- (transitive, intransitive, of a train) To have a route that goes through an area; to continue through an area; to complete a route.
- This train runs through the county.
- (transitive, of a train) To continue through territory owned by another company without being exchanged for a different train.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, through.
Usage notes
[edit]- The verb and particle are inseparable except in sense 7. (impale with a sword)
Translations
[edit]summarise briefly
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repeat something
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use completely, in a short space of time
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go through hastily
pervade, of a quality that is characteristic
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impale a person
flow through an area
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flow through a pipe, tube, blood vessel
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