Definition of Run along

1. Verb. Be in line with; form a line along. "Trees line the riverbank"

Exact synonyms: Line
Specialized synonyms: Rim
Generic synonyms: Lie
Derivative terms: Line

Definition of Run along

1. Verb. To leave. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Run Along

run-through
run-time
run-time error
run-up
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 (current term)
run amok
run and gun
run around
run around after
run around like a chicken with its head cut off
run around with
run away
run away with
run back
run bases
run batted in
run book
run by
run chase

Literary usage of Run along

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)
"Why the Drift Matter of the Gulf Stream is sloughed off to the right of its Course, 42.—Course of the Gulf Stream, 47.—Currents run along arcs of Great ..."

2. The Physical Geography of the Sea by Matthew Fontaine Maury (1855)
"Currents run along arcs of Great Circles, 49.—The Course of Currents counter to the Gulf Stream, 52. —The Force derived from Changes of Temperature, 53. ..."

3. The American Coast Pilot: Containing Directions for the Principal Harbors by Edmund March Blunt, George William Blunt (1847)
"It lies more than 30 leagues from St. Jago, and you may run along the whole intermediato coast at the distance of a league, or even less ; but, ..."

4. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"... or an inch, from the knives ; and there he faw the VOL. XIII. Pare I. fringes made by the two edge» of the knive« run along the ..."

5. A Dictionary of Mechanical Science, Arts, Manufactures, and Miscellaneous by Alexander Jamieson (1829)
"The branches of the pulmonary artery run along with those of the windpipe, and are ultimately subdivided into an endless number of capillary ramifications, ..."

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