run

Pronunciation: [rʌn]

Average Rank: 458

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)

Source: ECDICT

n. 跑, 赛跑, 奔跑, 奔跑的路程, 趋向, 流出, 运转时间, 连续 vi. 跑, 奔跑, 跑步, 赛跑, 竞赛, 行驶, 运转, 进行, 蔓延 vt. 使跑, 参赛, 追究, 驾驶, 开动, 管理, 经营, 使流出, 运行 a. 熔化的, 融化的, 浇铸的 run的过去式和过去分词 [计] 运行

Detailed Explanations:

n. a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely
n. (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team
n. a regular trip
n. the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace

ECDICT Dictionary Data

Collins Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Oxford 3000

Difficulty: BASIC

Exam Tags: zk gk

Word Forms:

Past: ran

Present Participle: running

Past Participle: run

0: run

1: d

3rd Person: runs

Plural: runs

Word Frequency Rankings

Wikipedia

#446

Formal, encyclopedic, and academic usage

Percentile: 95.5% (Top 95.5% most frequent)

95.5%

Out of 10,000 words in the Wikipedia corpus

TV & Movie Scripts

#366

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 96.3% (Top 96.3% most frequent)

96.3%

Out of 10,000 words in the TV & Movie Scripts corpus

Project Gutenberg

#563

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 94.4% (Top 94.4% most frequent)

94.4%

Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus

Insights

This word appears in 3 corpus/corpora, showing its usage across academic, conversational, and literary contexts.

Usage pattern: Most frequent in Wikipedia, making it particularly important for that context.

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