run up
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
- Alternative form of run-up.
动词 v.
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To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination.
— As I was walking along the road, a man suddenly ran up to me.
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To approach (an event or point in time).
— We are putting on lots of special attractions as we run up to Christmas.
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To take to a destination or before an authority.
— […] and I took him along and ran him up to police headquarters.
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To erect hastily, as a building.
— we wait until the palace is half-way up, and then we pay some tasty architect to run us up an ornamental mud hovel, right against it
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To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly.
— I'll run you up a skirt for tomorrow evening.
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To bring (a flag) to the top of its flag pole.
— Stand quietly while the honor guard runs the flag up.
- To string up; to hang.
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Of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball.
— He runs up... and bowls. Smashed away for four runs!
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To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase.
— Accounts of goods credited run up very fast.
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To accumulate (a debt).
— He ran up over $5,000 in unpaid bills.
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To thrust up, as anything long and slender.
— The fence runs up along the edge of the pasture.
- To warm up and test an airplane before a flight.
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To accumulate money, drugs, etc.
— I run me up some big bills.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, up.
— The small boy ran up the hill.
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