| 单词 | runner |
| 释义 | runner /run"euhr/, n. 1. a person, animal, or thing that runs, esp. as a racer. 2. a messenger. 3. a messenger of a bank or brokerage house. 4. Baseball. See base runner. 5. Football. the ball-carrier. 6. a person whose business it is to solicit patronage or trade. 7. a person acting as collector, agent, or the like, for a bank, broker, etc. 8. something in or on which something else runs or moves. 9. either of the long, bladelike strips of metal or wood on which a sled or sleigh slides. 10. the blade of an ice skate. 11. the rotating system of blades driven by the fluid passing through a reaction turbine. 12. the rotating member of a pair of millstones. Cf. bed stone. 13. a roller on which something moves along. 14. Furniture. a. a sliding piece, as a loper. b. rocker (def. 1). 15. an operator or manager, as of a machine. 16. a long, narrow rug, suitable for a hall or passageway. 17. a long, narrow strip of line, embroidery, lace, or the like, placed across a table. 18. Bot. a. a slender stolon that runs along the surface of the ground and sends out roots and leaves at the nodes, as in the strawberry. b. a plant that spreads by such stems. 19. Metall. any of the channels through which molten metal flows. 20. a smuggler. 21. a vessel engaged in smuggling. 22. a person who takes, transmits, and often pays off bets for a bookmaker or a numbers pool. 23. Ichthyol. a jurel, Caranx crysos, inhabiting waters from Cape Cod to Brazil. 24. Building Trades. a horizontal longitudinal timber resting upon the uprights of a staging and supporting the footing pieces. 25. Theat. a piece of carpet or matting placed in the wings for deadening offstage sounds. 26. a tackle or part of a tackle consisting of a line rove through a single block and fixed at one end. See diag. under tackle. [1250-1300; ME; see RUN, -ER1] |
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