| 单词 | to run up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto run up to run up 1. intransitive. a. Esp. of a plant: to shoot up; to grow rapidly or vigorously. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > grow or vegetate [verb (intransitive)] > sprout forth or spring up growc725 springOE upspringc1000 sprouta1200 springa1225 risea1382 burgeon1382 burgea1387 to run upa1393 lance1393 bursta1400 launch1401 reke?1440 alighta1450 shoot1483 to come up?1523 start1587 to grow up1611 to come away1669 to break forth1675 upshoot1841 outgrow1861 sprinta1878 break1882 sprount1890 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. l. 401 (MED) The Netle which up renneth The freisshe rede Roses brenneth And makth hem fade and pale of hewe. c1450 Mandeville's Trav. (Coventry) (1973) 1889 (MED) On þe trees hit renneth vp there Wilde vynes as though it were. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 101 Yf you reserue them [sc. oak trees] for Tymber, you must not touche the tops, that it may runne vp the straighter, and higher. 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole ii. iii. 464 When they [sc. parsnips] runne vp to seede, you shall take the principall or middle heades. 1640 T. Fuller Joseph's Coat 91 We must not all run up in heigth, like a Hop-pole, but also burnish, & spread in bredth. 1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 96 If Plants run up to Seed over-hastily..pull their Roots a little out of the ground. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at June Which will cause them [sc. lettuce] to run up, and not cabbage. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. iii. 54 These [hedges] having been untrimmed for many years, had run up into great bushes. 1847 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 8 ii. 577 The grass is again running up for a second crop of seed. 1873 M. Collins Squire Silchester I. ix. 126 Silvester was a tall fellow for his age; had run up a little too fast. 1907 J. Fraser Select Carnations, Picotees, & Pinks v. 36 As the flower stems run up..they should be neatly and securely staked. 1965 Gardeners Chron. 19 June 598/3 Plants for standards should be allowed to run up unstopped. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > adult > be adult [verb (intransitive)] > become adult win of elda1300 throc1325 to grow up1535 discradle1634 to run up1713 mature1844 majorize1896 1713 H. Felton Diss. Reading Classics 8 In some Persons, who have run up to Men without a Liberal Education, we may observe many great Qualities darken'd and eclips'd. 1728 A. Ramsay Ode Birth of Drumlanrig in Poems II. 160 Your Prince, who late Up to the state of Manhood run, Now..Sees his ain Image in a Son. 1882 Amer. Missionary Dec. 362 It is surprising how soon the youth run up to maturity. 1888 Home Missionary (N.Y.) Feb. 404 When a boy passes his fourteenth year he suddenly runs up to manhood in size. 2. a. intransitive. Of a bill, account, debt, amount of money, etc.: to mount up, accumulate.In early use: †(of a particular amount owed, due, etc.) to be attained by the accumulation of smaller amounts (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (intransitive)] forthwaxa900 wax971 growOE risec1175 anhigh1340 upwax1340 creasec1380 increasec1380 accreasea1382 augmenta1400 greata1400 mountc1400 morec1425 upgrowc1430 to run up1447 swell?c1450 add1533 accresce1535 gross1548 to get (a) head1577 amount1583 bolla1586 accrue1586 improve1638 aggrandize1647 accumulate1757 raise1761 heighten1803 replenish1814 to turn up1974 1447 in L. Morsbach Mittelengl. Originalurkunden (1923) 40 The sayd Nicholas schall pay..at the fest of the Natiuite of saint john Baptyst then next suing ten pounde..and so forth fro yere to yere, vnto the sayde somme of too hundreth marc be fulle ron vp. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. E7 Promising them..that they shall pay no more rent yeerelie, till the same be runne vp. 1637 S. Rutherford Let. 6 Jan. in Joshua Redivivus (1664) 175 Thy stipend is running up with interest in heaven as if thou wert preaching. 1675 W. Dugdale Baronage Eng. I. 228/2 The K[ing] was pleased..to accept of him, for those which were due from his said Father, unto the Exchequer, twenty pounds per annum, untill they should be run up. 1679 J. Somerville Memorie Somervilles (1815) II. 382 The interest of the money he had borrowed running up all that tyme. a1700 in W. K. Tweedie Select Biogr. (1847) II. 129 A..long account of sins that had run up upon me. 1760 Diss. Chief Obstacles Improvem. Land v. 63 The heritor must..allow a bill of arrear to run up, which becomes so much desperate debt. 1804 M. Edgeworth Will in Pop. Tales (1805) I. 186 The account between us has run up to a great sum. 1889 Heathen Woman's Friend Aug. 38/1 My bills are running up all the time, but I cannot help it. 1913 J. C. Hadden Prince Charles Edward vi. 95 His debts had now run up to the tidy total of 30,000 livres. 1991 M. Ultee tr. A. T. van Deursen Plain Lives in Golden Age 164 [He] allowed his debt to run up to 285,000 gulden before he fled abroad. b. transitive. To cause or allow (a bill, debt, etc.) to mount up; to amass (a fortune, etc.). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > owe [verb (transitive)] shallc975 owec1175 ought1483 behove1496 rest1503 tick1674 to run up1684 ought1822 1684 J. Goodman Old Relig. ii. ii. 227 Let him do this often, that he may not run up too big a score, and so..his Conscience be so affrighted..that like a Bankrupt he be tempted to decline looking into his accounts. 1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ I. at Run up To run up a score. a1777 S. Foote Devil upon Two Sticks (1778) ii. 30 Dr. Linctus..run me up a bill of thirty odd pounds. 1780 F. Burney Jrnl. Apr. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2003) IV. 39 He would be rather pleased than surprised if I should run him up a new Bill. 1840 F. M. Trollope Life & Adventures Michael Armstrong xix. 211 The plan of under-selling may..enable a very lucky man to run up a blood-stained fortune. 1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows I. vi. 157 I was running up fresh bills with my tradesmen. 1887 Contemp. Rev. July 13 A public debt, very heavy in proportion to..the wealth of the country, has been rapidly run up. 1925 A. Loos Gentlemen prefer Blondes vi. 197 I decided I would..go to Cartiers and run up quite a large size bill on Henry's credit. 1996 C. Cussler Shock Wave xlv. 425 A Russian entrepreneur, who ran up a vast fortune by buying shut-down aluminum and copper mines in Siberia..and then reopening them. 2010 New Yorker 4 Jan. 21/2 Even if you're already sick, and guaranteed to run up huge medical bills in the future. c. transitive. Sport. To accumulate (a specified number of points, runs, etc.). to run up the score: (U.S.) to accumulate points needlessly when one is already in a dominant position. ΚΠ 1842 Era 12 June The gentlemen of Cambridge went in first, and ran up a score of 139, whilst the Oxford only obtained 63. 1895 Outing Oct. 84/1 Harvard had played the Chicago Athletic Club..and had run up twenty-four points in the first half. 1899 Leeds Mercury 21 Mar. 10/6 Dawson..ran up a break of 64 before failing at an easy middle pocket loser from baulk. 1934 Standard-Examiner (Ogden, Utah) 8 Oct. (Sports section) 9/3 The Teachers ran up 40 points against Western State while holding the Mountaineers scoreless. 1955 Times 25 Aug. 3/3 The South Africans ran up 467 runs for the loss of eight wickets. 1989 Sports Illustr. 18 Dec. 73/3 It seemed strange last Saturday to hear Wildcat guard Derrick Miller accuse Kansas coach Roy Williams of running up the score. 1993 N.Y. Times 7 Nov. viii. 2/1 What would we gain by trying to run the score up on them when we have to play them twice a year every year? 2005 C. Krige Right Place at Wrong Time xii. 206 But then we went to Leicester, and they ran up 30 points against us. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > [verb (intransitive)] > reach land or port arrivec1275 to take landc1330 uprive1338 to run up?c1450 land1748 ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) 802 (MED) With cuthbert and his moder þen Rane vp þar bot thre men. ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) 4732 (MED) Þa rane vp at þe hauen agayne. a. intransitive. To follow a train of thought or argument to an earlier or more fundamental point; to go back in time or memory. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > [verb (intransitive)] > go back in time recourse1561 to go back1587 to run up1609 to put (also set, turn, etc.) back the clock1623 recedea1681 amount1714 to put (also set, turn, etc.) the clock back1745 remount1777 mount1788 retrograde1797 to throw back1855 1609 W. Cowper Three Heauenly Treat. Romanes iii. 429 If we search the beginning of Gods Loue towards vs, wee may runne vp in our thought to the beginning of the world, but cannot attaine to the beginning of this Loue. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. i. §12 If it had no beginning, it could be no tradition; for that must run up to some persons from whom it first came. 1698 J. Collier Short View Immorality Eng. Stage vi. 254 He exhorts them to refresh their Memories, to run up to their Baptism. 1754 A. Berthelson Eng. & Danish Dict. at Run We must run up to the original, vi maae gaae tilbage til förste oprindelse. 1792 Eng. Rev. Feb. 104 We..run up ages beyond the conquest, for the introduction of chess among our continental neighbours and ourselves. 1851 J. H. Newman Lect. Present Position Catholics Eng. ii. 46 A general belief or impression..running up beyond the memory of man. 1865 H. E. Manning Temporal Mission Holy Ghost (1866) i. 94 Whatsoever Tradition is found in all the world, neither written in Scripture nor decreed by any Council of the Church, but running up beyond the Scripture and the General Councils. 1890 G. W. Dean Lect. Evid. Revealed Relig. xi. 436 The controversies among Christians, running up to the earliest times, as to the rule for fixing the feast of Easter. b. transitive. To trace or pursue in thought or argument, esp. backwards in time. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > find out, discover [verb (transitive)] > trace or follow up investigate1623 trace1654 to run up1657 track1681 retrace1697 1657 J. Owen Of Communion with God iii. iii. 286 I cannot intend to run this expression up into its rise and originall. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. ii. 133 In Moses his time it was a very easie matter to run up their lineall descent as far as the flood. 1678 V. Alsop Melius Inquirendum Introd. 30 He has said more to me, than if he had run up its Pedigree through a Dozen or more Centuries. 1740 G. Cheyne Ess. Regimen 186 I might..run this analogy up to all the Qualities and Attributes [etc.]. a1769 R. Riccaltoun Wks. (1771) I. 209 When run up to their true original, and taken as they stand in the Bible, reason has nothing to say against them [sc. sentiments and practices]. c. transitive. To combine or conflate into. Also intransitive: to admit of being conflated. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > combine [verb (transitive)] > immaterial things join1340 combine1529 conjoin1588 incorporate1599 to run up1859 elide1952 1859 R. S. Candlish Reason & Revelation 113 No attempt to run them [sc. affections] up into one common attribute has succeeded. 1873 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma vii. 194 We can run up nearly all faults of conduct into two classes. 1877 M. Arnold Last Ess. on Church & Relig. p. xx Observers say..that all our passions may be run up into two elementary instincts. 1892 S. A. Brooke Short Serm. iii. 23 All of them [sc. qualities]—meekness and humility and purity and the rest—run up into two. 5. intransitive. to run up against. a. To collide with (a person or thing). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > impinge upon [verb (transitive)] > collide with hurtlec1430 to run up against1625 rencounter1671 collide1700 shock1783 1625 R. Juet in S. Purchas Pilgrimes III. iii. xvi. 588 Our shallop came running vp against our sterne, and split in all her stemme. 1747 R. Gough tr. D. Martin Hist. Bible 165 The Ass run up against one of these Walls with so much Violence that Balaam's Leg was bruised. 1797 R. Proud Hist. Pennsylvania II. App. Pt. ii. 73 They surrounded me with drawn knives in their hands, in such a manner, that I could hardly get along; running up against me, with their breasts open, as if they wanted some pretence to kill me. 1834 M. A. Shee Cecil Hyde I. xvi. 192 As I hurried through the ante-room I nearly ran up against a person coming out of an adjoining apartment. 1873 Quiver 9 346/2 Turning a corner, she ran up against her husband. But for the actual contact causing both to start and stare, they would have passed unrecognised and unrecognising. 1910 W. Roughead Trial Oscar Slater Introd. p. xl She saw the man run from the close and down the steps. He came towards her very fast, ran up against her, and on towards West Cumberland Street. 1960 W. Hibberd tr. J. Hervieux New Test. Apocrypha ix. 107 One day as the Lord Jesus was returning home with Joseph, he met a boy who ran up against him and knocked him down. 2005 D. Prestoon & D. Child Brimstone xxxiii. 275 He tried to go around her, but she shifted and he almost ran up against her. b. To encounter (a person or thing), esp. as a source of difficulty, obstruction, or opposition. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (transitive)] > come up against opposition from to run up againsta1758 to run afoul of1822 to knock one's head against1824 buck1904 a1758 J. Edwards Serm. ii. 36 in S. Hopkins Life & Char. J. Edwards (1765) We ought to avoid running up against stumbling Blocks; i.e. we should avoid those Things that expose us to fall into Sin. 1830 Sporting Mag. July 179/2 A man that cannot see walks as well in the dark as in daylight, and in fact is less likely to run up against mischief. 1846 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 367/2 One morning, whilst taking an early walk to the springs, I ran up against an English friend. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Aug. 3/1 Our extradition treaty with the United States has run up against its first snag. 1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 50/3 (advt.) The ‘Yankee’ Ratchet Screw-driver with which to tackle any and all screws that you will run up against in the course of ordinary work. 1960 A. Munro in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories (1968) 2nd Ser. 278 I had run up against the simple unprepossessing materialism which was the rock of their lives. 2007 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 20 Dec. 22/3 In Iran..he repeatedly runs up against the ambiguities of the post-euphoric phase of the Islamic Revolution. 6. a. intransitive. To get or rise to a particular point, state, action, etc. Now rare. ΚΠ 1650 S. Gott Ess. True Happines Man Pref. sig. A4v In times of Action, whosoever would appear considerable, and make any moment in Business, must pursue one of the Extremes, and desperately run up to the hight of it. a1680 D. Holles Memoirs (1699) 84 The Soldiers might be left to themselves to fire the more, run up to extremes, and put themselves into a posture to carry on their work of Rebellion with a high and violent hand. 1701 Laconics (new ed.) iii. 94 I'le e'n let it run up to a Pox, and Cure both under one. 1752 D. Fordyce Theodorus 202 Some of the finest Dispositions do, by a native Vigour and Impetuosity, run up sometimes to the highest Excesses. 1875 Irish Hosp. Gaz. 15 Mar. 87/1 The temp. and pulse does not run up to such an height in typhoid fever within twenty-four hours. 1905 Bi-monthly Bull. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers Sept. 1151 The manager tried to run up to his limit. b. transitive. To lead, bring, or force (a person) up to a particular point, state, action, etc. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > [verb (transitive)] > bring (a person or thing) into a state or condition set971 haveOE wendOE to bring onc1230 teemc1275 putc1330 run1391 casta1400 laya1400 stead1488 constitute1490 render1490 takea1530 introduce1532 deduce1545 throw?1548 derive?c1550 turn1577 to work up1591 estate1605 arrive1607 state1607 enduea1616 assert1638 sublime1654 to run up1657 1657 J. Dodington tr. C. Vialart Hist. Govt. France 383 Those several discontents..which run them up to that pass, that they become unsatisfied with the King, or his principal Minister. 1684 E. Ravenscroft Dame Dobson v. ii. 63 I have run her up to a Project, which I think cannot fail. 1711 Fingall MSS in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 188 There is nothing which runs a man sooner up to holyness than a perfect patience in affliction. 1725 Acct. Conduct & Proc. Late John Gow p. vii [This] might run them up to such a highth of Rage as to commit the Murthers which they did not intend before. 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 232 Sheriff's officers, I mean; who sometimes are left in possession, when any man in a hurry runs us up to execution. 1915 R. T. Morris Microbes & Men 293 She [sc. nature] is trying to induce him to run himself up to his protoplasmic limit. 7. transitive. a. (a) To construct or erect (a wall, building, etc.) rapidly or hurriedly.Generally with the implication of poor or insubstantial construction. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > build or construct [verb (transitive)] > build rapidly or unsubstantially to run up1685 jerry-build1893 1685 J. Jackson et al. Annot. Holy Bible II. sig. C2*/2 There are, and will be others, that as foolish Builders, run up an House in haste without looking to the Goodness of the Foundation. 1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Lll3/2 To run up a Wall, elever promtement une Muraille. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture II. 95 To run up any thing that is immediately necessary for any particular purpose. 1779 H. Swinburne Trav. Spain xliv. 412 Valladolid has the appearance of having been run up in a hurry to receive the court. 1849 Builder 3 Mar. 106/2 Houses ‘run up’ about the beginning of the present century. 1890 T. F. Tout in F. Y. Powell et al. Hist. Eng. III. 108 Many hideous and formless brick buildings were run up. 1910 J. Luby Black Cross Clove v. 68 Workmen began digging foundations and running up a rough stone basement to the level of the living room floor. 1993 A. Harding Eng. in 13th Cent. (1997) ii. 98 For 10s. a landlord could run up a flimsy cottage for a smallholder. (b) In extended use: to make or put together hurriedly or carelessly; to improvise; to rustle up. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > do, deal with, acquire, etc., quickly [verb (transitive)] > do hurriedly and carelessly > make, compile, or concoct to shuffle up1532 rash1570 huddle1579 to knock upc1580 to clap upa1616 to run up1686 to knock out1856 to knock off1886 whang1935 1686 P. Ellis 1st Serm. preach'd before their Majesties Advt. The Author bids me Apologize for it as a slight Thing run up in haste. 1720 J. Burchett Compl. Hist. Trans. at Sea ii. xvi. 158 Their Gallies were heavy and unwieldy, having been run up in haste of green Timber. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. xviii. 294 You have a genius for friendship, that is, for running up intimacies which you call such. 1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. June 612/2 Nature never ran up in her haste a more restless piece of workmanship. 1903 Dental Cosmos 45 569/1 I consider the time take to get an impression and run up a model is so much time wasted. 1965 New Statesman 19 Mar. 458/3 Were one to ask a computer to run up a composite 18th-century man, the result would be remarkably like Dr Burney. 1984 K. Amis Stanley & Women ii. 115 Susan said it was only a guess and went off to run up dinner. 1999 Times (Nexis) 5 May You can easily run up a simple website in ten minutes without knowing anything about HTML. b. Without the implication of haste: to build, erect, set up (a wall, building, etc.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > build or construct [verb (transitive)] timbera900 workOE betimberOE craftOE buildc1275 lifta1300 stagec1330 upraise1338 wright1338 edifya1340 to make outa1382 to make upa1382 biga1400 housea1400 risea1400 telda1400–50 to work upa1450 redress1481 levy1495 upmake1507 upbuild1513 exstruct?c1550 construct1663 to run up1686 practise1739 to lay up1788 elevate1798 to put up1818 to lay down1851 practicate1851 1686 N. Tate et al. tr. Heliodorus Æthiopian Hist. ix. 98 They also ran up Buttresses to support their Wall. 1702 R. L'Estrange tr. Josephus Wars of Jews iii. xvii, in Wks. 880 Joseph had run-up a Strong Wall round about it, save only on the Lake-side. 1751 W. Blennerhassett New Hist. Eng. III. xxiii. 1098 [They] landed without Opposition..and had presently run up a Fortification, which they called Fort del Oro. 1847 T. Miller Pictures Country Life 193 He run up a high brick wall beside his garden, and surmounted it with a battlement of broken glass bottles. 1857 L. C. Cumming tr. G. Freytag Debit & Credit I. vii. 58 Tell the carpenter to run up a partition at once. 1907 School Jrnl. 5 Oct. 292/1 A few days ago I was watching the bricklayers run up a wall on our new school building. 1946 C. Stead Letty Fox xiv. 139 [He] had run up a large expensive apartment house near Hyde Park. 1995 M. Campbell Argyll (ed. 2) x. 78 In most countries a knight could not run up a stone tower without his overlord's consent. 2002 D. Lambdin Sea of Grey iv. 42 Stock in John Company's doing main-well. May run up a town house, after all. c. (a) To sew (a tear, hem, seam, etc.), esp. quickly or loosely. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > sew or ornament textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > sew > quickly run1709 to run up1828 whang1855 1828 W. Carleton in Christian Examiner, & Church of Ireland Mag. Oct. 273 An occasional rent in his gown run up with bleached thread. 1840 Workwoman's Guide: Instr. Apparel (ed. 2) 163 Having laid the lining and wadding together as described above, run up the seams. 1859 C. Reade Love me Little I. xiv. 47 I want you to run up a tear in my flounce. 1920 Pop. Mech. Mag. Apr. 616/1 With the sewing machine run up the long seams on either side of the garment. 1946 Tyrone (Pa.) Daily Herald 28 May 3/4 (advt.) Go to the store or a bridge party, rest, or run up a hem on your new curtains. 2005 B. Kendrick Fashionably Late (2006) 230 Cut a few pieces of cloth, run up a few seams on the old Singer. (b) To make (a garment, etc.) by sewing quickly or simply. Cf. sense 69b. ΚΠ 1879 Temple Bar Sept. 141 Evans, my maid, can run her up a suitable dress in a couple of hours. 1883 Lamp 24 302/1 In London..they run up a full dress in an afternoon, and think nothing of it. 1952 R. C. Hutchinson Recoll. of Journey i. 11 I have a picture of her..in a yellow frock run up by some village dressmaker. 1977 Lancs. Life Nov. 74/1 The women keep it clean, scrubbing floors, washing curtains, running up new ones on the machine [etc.]. 2002 D. Aitkenhead Promised Land ix. 98 The stores do a brisk trade running up job interview suits for travellers on their way home. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > wealth > accumulate wealth [verb (transitive)] > increase or augment (one's riches) to run up1699 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew To Push on one's Fortune, to advance, or run it up. 9. a. intransitive. Of a price or other quantity: to increase (to a specified level). Of a commodity: to rise in price or value. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [verb (intransitive)] > rise (of prices) > rise in price arise1340 rise?1468 mend1606 advance1664 to run up1705 to go up1826 enhance1889 ripen1892 1705 A. W. Boehm tr. A. H. Francke Pietas Hallensis 123 We labour'd under many vast expences which were requir'd, both for paying the Workmen, and defraying other necessary charges; which at one time run up higher than at another. 1712 W. Howell's Medulla Hist. Angl. (ed. 6) 417 Guinea's run up to 30 s. a piece; and Mill'd Silver Money had done the same too, if [etc.]. 1793 T. Jefferson Notes 31 Mar. in Papers (1992) XXV. 474 Money being so flush, the 6. percents run up to 21/ and 22/ shillings. 1825 Morning Post 27 Apr. 1/4 An unpropitious season would be sufficient to make the price run up in less than a year to 85s. or 90s. 1855 Poultry Chron. 11 July 453/2 Twice during the period of incubation the temperature ran up during the night to 110, and once even to 120 deg. 1897 Liverpool Mercury 7 Oct. 4/5 Kalgurlis were the centre of activity, and, after being pushed down to 5 9-16, ran up sharply, and closed 9-16 higher at 6 6-16. 1922 Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric. No. 921. 5 On attempting to filter more, the pressure ran up rapidly. 1972 Times 4 Nov. 25/4 A late feature was P & O, whose shares ran up smartly at the close to end 8p higher at 362p. 1998 J. Gard Small Investor goes to Market 53 I bought IBM in 1992, while it was falling, at 85¼... Almost immediately, the price ran up to $100. 2005 Wall St. Jrnl. 25 Apr. (Central ed.) a5/1 DoubleClick shares ran up strongly late last week on media reports that Hellman was close to a deal with the company. b. transitive. To cause (a price, etc.) to rise; to force (a thing) up to a higher price; to increase the price of. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [verb (transitive)] > increase (prices) raise?a1513 enhance1542 enhaulse1600 exhance1667 inflamea1687 to run up1709 rise1740 to put up1838 hike1904 up1934 price-gouge1940 uplift1962 1709 Rev. State Brit. Nation 11 June 119/2 Upon the View of a Peace..they run up the new Stock to 25 per Cent. Advance. 1767 J. Hanway Lett. Importance Rising Generation II. 233 The higher ranks having accumulated a vast property, first run up the price of land, and then give whatever is demanded for the produce of it. 1838 E. Eden Let. 27 Sept. in Up the Country (1866) I. xxii. 241 His is the sin of running up the price of the drawings. 1890 Sat. Rev. 18 Oct. 451/1 Mexican Railway stocks..were run up partly because of the rise in silver. 1896 W. Lindsey Cinder-path Tales 15 His supporters had plenty of money, and soon ran the odds up to three to one. 1900 Jrnl. Federated Inst. Brewing 6 10 If you had at your command a very strong draught..you could run up the temperature to a much higher point than was safe under ordinary conditions. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 305 I heard So and So made a cool hundred quid over it, says Alf... He let out that Myler was on the beer to run up the odds [1926 run the odds] and he swatting all the time. 1977 Time 8 Aug. 40/3 The effect has been to run up the value of these currencies, thus making imports cheaper in West Germany and Japan. 2009 D. J. Leinweber Nerds on Wall St. xi. 265 Two manipulators..successfully ran up the price of the stock over 106,600 percent. c. transitive. To drive (a person) to pay a high price for something, esp. by bidding against him or her at auction. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (transitive)] > bid for or offer to buy > bid against to bid against1776 to run up1832 1832 R. Wilmot Ardent III. x. 156 The auctioneer..took advantage of our hero's ignorance and ran him up, as it is termed, by artificial bidding. 1862 Temple Bar 6 419 I..suffered myself to be induced to bid.., and then to be ‘run up’ by the..wealthy broker. a1894 R. L. Stevenson St. Ives (1898) xxiv. 260 He offered me twenty pounds for the chaise; I ran him up to twenty-five, and closed with the offer. 1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven x. 147 I'm going to run him up to thirty quid. 1980 W. C. Ketchum Auction! v. 59 By never allowing either the auctioneer or other bidders to be quite sure of what you are going to bid.., you'll discourage anyone from deliberately running you up. 2004 J. Adams Hideous Absinthe viii. 161 I felt it would be wise to let him become buyer, and offer him a profit afterwards, rather than run him up at the auction. 10. intransitive. To amount or attain to a specified (large) size, weight, number, etc.; = to run to —— 4a at Phrasal verbs 2. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measure [verb (transitive)] > have a measurement of measure1671 to run up1852 1768 A. Young Six Weeks Tour Southern Counties vi. 170 The farms are large; some few of 40 l. or 60 l. but run up to seven and eight hundred pounds a year. 1794 R. Fraser Gen. View Devon 32 The oxen..run up to eight, ten, and twelve hundred weight. 1835 Rep. Select Comm. Orange Lodges Ireland 84 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 377) XV. 1 They may run up to 200 [members] or even higher. 1852 Graham's Mag. June 575/2 These great steel plates run up to six feet diameter. 1892 Field 2 Apr. 490/2 The trout run up to about 3 lb. 1904 A. L. Dyke Anat. Automobile 388 The motor speed runs up to 1,800 revolutions per minute. 1951 Sci. News 21 72 Any carbohydrate..can be represented by the formula Cn(H2O)m... For polysaccharides such as starch or cellulose, n and m may run up to hundreds. 1974 Guardian 23 Mar. 12/1 An annual wealth tax starting at 1 per cent on £50,000, and running up to 5 per cent on £400,000 and more. 2005 N. T. Rosenberg Sullivan's Justice v. 39 In crimes of this magnitude, a report could run up to fifty pages. 11. transitive. To bring (a gun) up to the firing position. Cf. to run out 6b at Phrasal verbs 1. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > operate (artillery) [verb (transitive)] > bring gun to firing position to run out1665 to run up1813 1813 Royal Mil. Chron. Aug. 397 The gun must be run up again into the embrasure after each shot in consequence of the recoil. 1879 Man. Siege & Garrison Artillery Exercises 317 Under the muzzle of the gun when run up. 1933 ‘C. S. Forester’ Gun xxi. 271 He had devised a system to limit the force of the recoil and to minimize the labour of running up the gun each time. 1987 W. Golding Close Quarters iv. 42 So now, my heroes, run up them guns! 2002 W. P. Guthrie Battles Thirty Years War i. 8 The crew..had to run the gun up after each shot. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [verb (transitive)] > exercise the sense of smell snevec1200 snokec1380 savoura1382 thevea1400 whiff1635 nesea1637 scent1638 venta1640 taste1656 snift1736 sniff1792 olfact1805 to run up1815 smell1831 sniffa1845 snuff1858 smellsip1922 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 211 He would run the scent up like a blood-hound, and surprise us. 13. transitive. To add up (a column of figures, etc.) rapidly; (occasionally more generally) to make a rapid assessment of. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > number, calculate, or reckon [verb (transitive)] rimeeOE arimec885 atellc885 talec897 i-telle971 tellOE readc1225 reckon?c1225 aima1375 numbera1382 denumber1382 accounta1393 casta1400 countc1400 umberc1400 ascribe1432 annumerate?a1475 to sum upa1475 annumbera1500 ennumber1535 reckon?1537 tally1542 compute1579 recount1581 rate1599 catalogize1602 to add up1611 suma1616 enumeratea1649 numerate1657 to run up1830 to figure out1834 figure1854 to count up1872 enumer1936 the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > perform arithmetic or algebraic operations [verb (transitive)] > add or sum suma1387 drawc1392 to lay togethera1400 add?c1425 foot1491 confer1552 to add up1611 total1716 sum1740 tot1770 to run up1830 summate1880 society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > keep accounts [verb (transitive)] > amount to amount1399 draw1425 return1624 net1772 to run up1830 total1880 to tot up1882 1830 Examiner 436/2 The worthy Member has characteristically amused himself with running up a calculation. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. i. 17 The quick eye of the trader, well used to run up at a glance the points of a fine female article. 1909 Scribner's Mag. June 697/2 She thinks she is a wonderful business woman, because she can run up a column of figures correctly. 1954 G. Carson Old Country Store v. 90 He could tally up chalk scores on the wall... He could run up a column of figures on a shingle. 2001 M. J. Vaughn Gabriella's Voice 23 She was still running up the numbers in her head. 14. intransitive. Sport. To be a runner-up in a race or other competition. Cf. runner-up n. 2a, 2b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > win, lose, or score [verb (intransitive)] > be placed to run up1833 place1924 1833 Manch. Times & Gaz. 14 Dec. The Cup..was won by Mr. Anderton's Dart... Mr. A. Lee's Ruler ‘ran up’, and, the cognoscenti say, would have been the ‘lucky dog’ but for [etc.]. 1841 Sporting Rev. May 390 The winner to receive £220,..the two-winners in the fourth ties £5 each, the dog running up a bonus of £50 in addition. 1890 Field 8 Nov. 709/3 Mr. Chambers, who ran up, also played an excellent game [of golf]. 1970 Field 16 Apr. 703/1 Stanley and Michael Lunt, father and son who between them won three amateur championships and ran up in a fourth. 1988 Greyhound Star June 22/3 Swift Ivy..had run-up in his two races before the change of ownership. 2009 D. Boyd Legends Surfing ii. 61 [He] was his country's national sports treasure, winning three Peruvian international titles and running up in two more. 15. intransitive. Of fabric, a garment, etc.: to shorten, shrink, or contract, typically after becoming wet. Now rare (English regional (northern) in later use). ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > become reduced in size or extent [verb (intransitive)] > contract or shrink shrimc1000 shrinkc1275 to draw togethera1398 gather1577 coact1578 to fall together1583 draw1615 contract1648 to run up1838 to take up1860 1838 Workwoman's Guide: Instr. Apparel vi. 170 It is a good plan to run a hem of book muslin..on the two straight sides, which prevents the handkerchief running up in the washing. 1873 R. Broughton Nancy (1874) xv. 115 I suppose that her frock must have run up in the washing. 1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted (ed. 2) 12 The fibre becomes thicker and shorter, and the cloth ‘runs up’ to an indefinite extent. 1920 ‘J. E. Buckrose’ Young Hearts vi. 74 His tennis flannels had run up in the wash to a degree that no effort could disguise. 1924 J. H. Wilkinson Leeds Dial. Gloss. & Lore 177 He hesn't worn his shirt a month, an' it's run up two or three inches. 16. transitive. North American. To cut up as much as possible of (a tree trunk, log, etc.) as sound timber; (sometimes more generally) to cut up for timber. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > build or construct with wood [verb (transitive)] > prepare, dress, or square timber framec1330 square1412 postc1520 timber out1628 slab1703 side1754 to bring forward1823 match1833 underhew1847 to run up1863 1863 ‘Emeralda’ Myrtle Leaves in Spring Time xvii. 137 My ole man, an Jonathan, thar, helped to run up the logs. 1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 116 The pine lies prostrate. Then comes the question, how far can it be ‘run up’ into the branches? A cut is made in it, and if the wood is not sound a lower cut is made. 1902 Harper's Mag. July 214/1 Failure to run the logs well up into the tops. 1910 11th Ann. Rep. Canad. Forestry Assoc. 98 These trees, in a great many cases, were not run up into the tops. 1972 D. C. Smith Hist. Lumbering in Maine xiv. 363 Stumps could not be higher than eighteen inches, and merchantable stuff had to be run up into the branches to the four inch diameter line. 17. transitive. Australian. To fetch or bring (a horse, etc.) in from pasture. Cf. to run out 19 at Phrasal verbs 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [verb (transitive)] > herd horses > bring horse from pasture to run up1876 1876 J. A. Edwards Gilbert Gogger 163 The stockmen ran up the horses, side-saddles were fastened to the backs of the steeds destined to carry the fair equestrians. 1907 Pall Mall Mag. Dec. 797/2 Hey! Jimmy! you lazy beggar! Turn out for all you are worth, and run up the horses. 1936 Argus (Melbourne) 18 Jan. 8/5 They save their elders such tasks as ‘running up the horses’ when someone needs the animals. 18. transitive. Printing. To distribute (ink) in preparation for printing. Esp. in to run up colour. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > [verb (transitive)] > distribute ink ink1728 beat1824 ink up1845 re-ink1845 to run up1884 1884 J. Southward Pract. Printing (ed. 2) ii. xvii. 497 Next run up colour, and pull a revise. 1891 Typo (N.Z.) 27 June 96/1 Wash your slab, spread a little glycerine over it, and run up color again. 1932 J. A. Place & E. Clunes Art & Pract. Printing II. vi. 116 Before running up colour it is necessary to see that all Rollers are correctly set. 1967 F. J. M. Wijnekus Elsevier's Dict. Printing & Allied Industries 274/2 Run up the ink, to. 1991 K. F. Hird Offset Lithographic Technol. xx. 488 Figures do not include waste sheets used to run up color as it is assumed that waste stock is used for this purpose. 19. transitive. To allow (a machine) to gain speed, power, etc., until it reaches the required or expected operating levels. Also intransitive: (of a machine) to be run in this way. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [verb (transitive)] > run engine to warm up to run up1917 1896 Electr. Engineer 20 Mar. 326/2 By running up the engine steadily on the stop-valve we can put the machines in parallel without the slightest blink in the lights. 1902 T. Sewell Elem. Electr. Engin. xv. 299 The only precaution necessary..is to run up the second machine till it is giving exactly the same e.m.f. as the loaded one before switching it in. 1917 Aerial Age Weekly 24 Sept. 57/3 Run up the engine and insist on its doing its normal revolutions on the ground. 1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 26 Intermittently, the sound of engines running up over~comes the wind. 1995 W. Lehmann in G. Vetter Leak-free Pumps & Compressors ii. 38 When running up the motor, the maximum or pull-out torque is reached at motor torque MMK. 2006 M. Kendall Legacy of Dragons xvi. 145 Peter decided to go out and check Seamaiden, run up the auxiliary engine and charge the batteries. < as lemmas |
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