Lexic.us

Definition of Run-up

1. Noun. A substantial increase over a relatively short period of time. "Market runups are followed by corrections"

2. Noun. The approach run during which an athlete gathers speed.

Definition of Run-up

1. Noun. (cricket) The approach run of a bowler before delivering the ball ¹

2. Noun. The approach run of a high jumper or other athlete in order to gather speed or momentum ¹

3. Noun. (British) A period of time just before an important event. ¹

4. Noun. An increase in the value or amount of something ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Run-up

run-ins run-length encoding run-length encodings run-o'-the-mill run-of-the-mill run-of-the-mine run-off run-on run-on sentence run-on sentences

run-ons run-resistant run-through run-time run-time error run-up (current term) run-ups run a bath run a mile run a red light

run a risk run about run across run afoul run afoul of run after run aground run along run amok run and gun

Literary usage of Run-up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Physical Geography of the Sea by Matthew Fontaine Maury (1855)
"Some Currents run up bill, 237.—Currents of the Red Sea, 238.—Top of that Sea an inclined Plane, 240.—How an under Current from it is generated, 245. ..."

2. The Physical Geography of the Sea by Matthew Fontaine Maury (1855)
"Some Currents run up hill, 237.—Currents of the Red Sea, 238.—Top of that Sea an inclined Plane, 240.—How an under Current from it is generated, 245. ..."

3. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle (1883)
"Meanwhile, ' the duty nearest hand ' is to get on the stair- carpet that he may run up and down more softly. LETTER 58. From the Dunbar expedition I seem to ..."

4. The Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare (1887)
"... taken to delude him into the notion that he is a lord will not make him essentially other than ' Old Sly's son, of Burton Heath,' who has run up so long ..."

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