What does run mean?

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Verb

(intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.)
(intransitive) To go at a fast pace, to move quickly.
(transitive) To cause to move quickly; to make move lightly.
(transitive or intransitive) To compete in a race.
(intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
(intransitive, soccer) To carry a football down the field.
(transitive) To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.
(intransitive) To flee away from a danger or towards help.
(transitive, juggling, colloquial) To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.

(intransitive, figuratively) To move or spread quickly.
(intransitive) Of a liquid, to flow.
(intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
(transitive) To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from an object.
(intransitive) To become liquid; to melt.
(intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
(figuratively, transitive) To go through without stopping, usually illegally.

(nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
(social) To carry out an activity.

(transitive) To control or manage, be in charge of.
(intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.
(transitive) To make run in a race or an election.
To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
(intransitive) To be presented in one of the media.
(transitive) To print or broadcast in the media.
(transitive) To transport someone or something.
(transitive) To smuggle illegal goods.
(transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.

(intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
(intransitive) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
(transitive) To make something extend in space.
(intransitive) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
(transitive) To make a machine operate.

(transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
(copular verb) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
(transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
(intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
To cause to enter; to thrust.
To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
To control or have precedence in a card game.
To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
(archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
To have growth or development.
To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
(golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
(video game) To speedrun.

Noun

Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
A pleasure trip.
Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
Migration (of fish).
A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
(skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
A (regular) trip or route.
The route taken while running or skiing.
The distance sailed by a ship.
A voyage.
An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
(Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
State of being current; currency; popularity.
A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.

(card game) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
(music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
A trial.
A flow of liquid; a leak.
A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)
A production quantity (such as in a factory).
The length of a showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
A quick pace, faster than a walk.

A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
Any sudden large demand for something.
The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
The horizontal length of a set of stairs
A standard or unexceptional group or category.
(baseball) A score (point scored) by a runner making it around all the bases and over home plate.
(cricket) A point scored.
(American football) A gain of a (specified) distance; a running play.
(Can we clean up(+) this sense?) Unrestricted use of.
A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
(nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
(construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
(mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
A pair or set of millstones.
(video game) A playthrough.
(slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
(golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
(golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
(video game) A speedrun.

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