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runner

/ruhn-er/US // ˈrʌn ər //UK // (ˈrʌnə) //

跑步者,转轮,跑者,跑步机

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person, animal, or thing that runs, especially as a racer.
    • : a messenger.
    • : a messenger of a bank or brokerage house.
    • : Baseball. base runner.
    • : Football. the ball-carrier.
    • : a person whose business it is to solicit patronage or trade.
    • : a person acting as collector, agent, or the like, for a bank, broker, etc.
    • : something in or on which something else runs or moves.
    • : either of the long, bladelike strips of metal or wood on which a sled or sleigh slides.
    • : the blade of an ice skate.
    • : the rotating system of blades driven by the fluid passing through a reaction turbine.
    • : the rotating member of a pair of millstones.Compare bed stone.
    • : a roller on which something moves along.
    • : Furniture. a sliding piece, as a loper.rocker.
    • : an operator or manager, as of a machine.
    • : a long, narrow rug, suitable for a hall or passageway.
    • : a long, narrow strip of line, embroidery, lace, or the like, placed across a table.
    • : Botany. a slender stolon that runs along the surface of the ground and sends out roots and leaves at the nodes, as in the strawberry.a plant that spreads by such stems.
    • : Metallurgy. any of the channels through which molten metal flows.
    • : a smuggler.
    • : a vessel engaged in smuggling.
    • : a person who takes, transmits, and often pays off bets for a bookmaker or a numbers pool.
    • : Ichthyology. a jurel, Caranx crysos, inhabiting waters from Cape Cod to Brazil.
    • : Building Trades. a horizontal longitudinal timber resting upon the uprights of a staging and supporting the footing pieces.
    • : Theater. a piece of carpet or matting placed in the wings for deadening offstage sounds.
    • : a tackle or part of a tackle consisting of a line rove through a single block and fixed at one end.

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Examples

  • For instance, neck gaiters are especially popular among runners.

  • It is also home to the Charlotte Rail Trail, which is popular with runners, walkers, and cyclists.

  • Zwift isn’t brand-new—it’s been around for a few years—and it markets itself as a training app for cyclists, runners, and triathletes.

  • Then her team could also test just how well it would thwart would-be runners.

  • True, runners risk stepping into another person’s cloud of exhaled air.

  • “I put on a dress and walked down, and ended up getting first runner-up,” she recalls.

  • Runner-Up: Pauline Etienne, Eden I could not take my eyes off this immensely talented Belgian actress.

  • In April, Wehby was the front-runner; now, she is trailing badly and Oregon is safely in the D column.

  • He was smart and tough in the way of the hard worker, the long-distance runner, the gambler who wins on stamina.

  • One runner in Houston now has a permanent, hoof-shaped scar in the center of his forehead.

  • To talk German was beyond the sweep of my dizziest ambition, but an Italian runner or porter instantly presented himself.

  • And since he was a very fast runner—for short distances—he met Grandfather Mole just as the old chap was crawling up the bank.

  • He would be staggering, half blind with exhaustion—like a runner at the end of a long race, with a rival close at his heels.

  • Finally a swift runner reached the watch-tower, whence the old king looked forth, awaiting news of the day.

  • Peter could feel it pound as if he had been a mile runner and the finish lay a hundred yards ahead of him.