Meaning of "ran" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF RAN

ran  [ræn]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RAN

Ran is a verb.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb ran in English.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO RAN

PRESENT

Present

I run

you run

he/she/it runs

we run

you run

they run

Present continuous

I am running

you are running

he/she/it is running

we are running

you are running

they are running

Present perfect

I have run

you have run

he/she/it has run

we have run

you have run

they have run

Present perfect continuous

I have been running

you have been running

he/she/it has been running

we have been running

you have been running

they have been running

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I ran

you ran

he/she/it ran

we ran

you ran

they ran

Past continuous

I was running

you were running

he/she/it was running

we were running

you were running

they were running

Past perfect

I had run

you had run

he/she/it had run

we had run

you had run

they had run

Past perfect continuous

I had been running

you had been running

he/she/it had been running

we had been running

you had been running

they had been running

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will run

you will run

he/she/it will run

we will run

you will run

they will run

Future continuous

I will be running

you will be running

he/she/it will be running

we will be running

you will be running

they will be running

Future perfect

I will have run

you will have run

he/she/it will have run

we will have run

you will have run

they will have run

Future perfect continuous

I will have been running

you will have been running

he/she/it will have been running

we will have been running

you will have been running

they will have been running

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would ran

you would ran

he/she/it would ran

we would ran

you would ran

they would ran

Conditional continuous

I would be running

you would be running

he/she/it would be running

we would be running

you would be running

they would be running

Conditional perfect

I would have ran

you would have ran

he/she/it would have ran

we would have ran

you would have ran

they would have ran

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been running

you would have been running

he/she/it would have been running

we would have been running

you would have been running

they would have been running

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you run
we let´s run
you run

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to run

Past participle

run

Present Participle

running

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «RAN»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «ran» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of ran

abscond · administer · awayday · bear · beat a retreat · beat it · bleed · bolt · bootleg · boss · career · carry · carry on · carry out · cascade · category · chain · challenge · chase · circuit · circulate · class · clear out · compete · conduct · contend · continue · control · convey · coop · coordinate · course · creep · current · cut and run · cycle · dart · dash · decamp · depart · direct · direction · discharge · display · dissolve · do · do a runner · drift · drive · enclosure · enter · escape · excursion · execute · extend · feature · flee · flow · fly the coop · function · gallop · glide · go · go round · gush · handle · hare · hasten · head · hie · hotfoot · hound · hunt · hurry · issue · jaunt · jog · journey · keep · kind · ladder · last · lead · leak · leg it · lie · lift · liquefy · look after · lope · maintain · make off · manage · manoeuvre · mastermind · melt · mix · motion · move · movement · operate · order · outing · oversee · own · participate · pass · passage · path · pen · perform · period · piste · possess · pour · print · proceed · progress · propel · publish · race · range · re-offer · reach · regulate · ride · rip · roll · round · route · rush · scamper · scarper · scramble · scud · scurry · season · sequence · series · ship · show a clean pair of heels · shuttle · skedaddle · skim · slide · slope · smuggle · snag · sneak · sort · speed · spell · spill · spin · spout · spread · sprint · spurt · stampede · stand · streak · stream · stretch · string · superintend · supervise · take a powder · take care of · take flight · take off · tear · tendency · tenor · tick over · tide · track · transport · travel · trend · trip · trot · type · unravel · variety · way · work

TRANSLATION OF RAN

Find out the translation of ran to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of ran from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ran» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 跑
• Translator English - Spanish: corrió
• English: ran
• Translator English - Hindi: भागा
• Translator English - Arabic: ركض
• Translator English - Russian: побежал
• Translator English - Portuguese: correu
• Translator English - Bengali: দৌড়ে
• Translator English - French: couru
• Translator English - Malay: Berlari
• Translator English - German: lief
• Translator English - Japanese: 走った
• Translator English - Korean: 실행
• Translator English - Javanese: Mlayu
• Translator English - Vietnamese: ran
• Translator English - Tamil: ஓடி
• Translator English - Marathi: धावत गेला
• Translator English - Turkish: ran
• Translator English - Italian: corse
• Translator English - Polish: prowadził
• Translator English - Ukrainian: побіг
• Translator English - Romanian: a fugit
• Translator English - Greek: έτρεξε
• Translator English - Afrikaans: hardloop
• Translator English - Swedish: sprang
• Translator English - Norwegian: løp

10 QUOTES WITH «RAN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word ran.

1

Frank Abagnale

I was just a guy who ran away from home at 16 because my parents were getting a divorce and the judge was making me choose which parent to live with. I didn't want to make that choice. I ended up in New York City.

2

Kirk Acevedo

I am much more wired to be an athlete than anything else. I understand the 'hard work = payoff' equation in sports. I run marathons and I box. And that's my Puerto Rican flag hanging in Freddie Roach's Wild Card Boxing gym. I gave it to him. My last N.Y.C. marathon time I ran in three hours flat.

3

Kim Alexis

Running just makes me happy. I love the freedom of running. I ran until I was seven and a half months pregnant with each of my babies. When I gave birth to my first son, my doctor said I couldn't run for six weeks. I was sneaking back out after eight days.

4

Joan Van Ark

A couple of years ago I ran in the LA Marathon.

5

Tom Barrett

I'm very confident that not only will the other candidates who ran for this office support me but all of their supporters will as well. So yes, I'm very confident that I will get their support.

6

Peter Barris

We had this unbelievable faith that no business has done, quite frankly, and we tripped along the way doing it, but within two years, we were in 40-plus countries. So we ran at an amazing pace, and this is where venture capitalists play a role. Making Groupon into what it is today, we had no role in it; the entrepreneurs did it.

7

Roberto Benigni

The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards, so the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur backwards.

8

Drew Busby

When you ran out the tunnel at the old Easter Road for a derby game, you'd get a spittal right on the back of your head. They were spitting on you as you ran out, which actually helped get you going. It was some place.

9

Anne Cox Chambers

When my sister and I came along, my father's political life was completely over. He ran for president the year I was born. So that was the end of it. He had been congressman first, then governor, before all that. So when we came along, he was running the Dayton newspaper.

10

Christopher Columbus

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RAN»

Discover the use of ran in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ran and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

If I Ran the Zoo

If Gerald McGrew ran the zoo, he'd let all the animals go and fill it with more unusual beasts--a ten-footed lion, an Elephant-Cat, a Mulligatawny, a Tufted Mazurka, and others.

Dr. Seuss, 2008

A River Ran Wild: An Environmental History

An environmental history of the Nashua River, from its discovery by Indians through the polluting years of the Industrial Revolution to the ambitious clean-up that revitalized it.

Lynne Cherry, 2002

When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception ...

An epidemiologist identifies some 300,000 annual deaths in the U.S. and Europe due to pollution, making revelations about historical and smog-related mass casualties, and calling for major public changes.

Devra Lee Davis, 2003

The Kid Who Ran For President

Just in time for election season, Dan Gutman's hugely popular THE KID WHO RAN FOR PRESIDENT is back.

Dan Gutman, 2012

MEMS & Microsystems: Design, Manufacture, and Nanoscale ...

In response to the increasing needs of engineers to acquire basic knowledge and experience in these areas, this popular text has been carefully updated, including an entirely new section on the introduction of nanoscale engineering.

Tai-Ran Hsu, 2008

The Rivers Ran East

This riveting firsthand account follows Leonard Clark's search for the legendary lost Seven Cities of Cibola--reputedly home to mountains of gold--in a rain forest near the Peruvian Andes.

Leonard Clark, 2001

Who Ran the Cities?: City Elites and Urban Power Structures ...

This volume furthers our understanding of who actually ran cities in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and develops greater understanding of the relationship between elite and power in cities.

Robert Beachy, Ralf Roth, 2007

When the Mob Ran Vegas: Stories of Money, Mayhem And Murder

Twenty-one short, sizzling, behind-the-headlines stories about the men, the Mob, movie stars, and missing money that made early Vegas such a hot spot in the Nevada desert in the early '40s to '60s.

Steve Fischer, 2005

If the Irish Ran the World: Montserrat, 1630-1730

If the Irish Ran the World provides interesting insights into whether ethnicity was central to the making of the colonial world and the usefulness of studies of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English imperialism in the Americas.

Donald H. Akenson, 1997

Who Ran My Underwear Up the Flagpole?

Four friends discover ways to fit in at school during the football season.

Jerry Spinelli, 1992

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ran is used in the context of the following news items.

2015 Analysis of Centralized Radio Access Network (C-RAN …

This report provides a comprehensive technology analysis on centralized radio access network (C-RAN) architecture for mobile networks. A detailed analysis ... «PR Newswire, Jul 15»

Philippine Navy commissions two former RAN landing craft

The Philippine Navy (PN) has inducted two recently decommissioned Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Balikpapan-class heavy landing craft (LCH) vessels. «IHS Jane's 360, Jul 15»

Global Analysis of Centralized Radio Access Network (C-RAN …

This report provides a comprehensive technology analysis on centralized radio access network (C-RAN) architecture for mobile networks. A detailed analysis ... «GlobeNewswire, Jul 15»

RAN Infrastructure Market to Shrink by $11 B between 2015 and …

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a newly published report by Dell'Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about ... «PR Newswire, Jul 15»

Orbotech names Ran Bareket as new Chief Financial Officer

YAVNE, Israel, June 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Orbotech Ltd. (NASDAQ: ORBK) today announced that Ran Bareket has been appointed to the position of ... «PR Newswire, Jun 15»

Boston bar star Ran Duan in town tonight

The default alcoholic accompaniment to Chinese food in the U.S. is light beer, plum wine or a sugary cocktail garnished with a paper umbrella. But when Ran ... «Charleston Post Courier, Jun 15»

Procera Networks' RAN Perspectives Solution Wins 2015 Pipeline …

FREMONT, Calif., June 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Procera Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: PKT), the global Subscriber Experience company, today announced RAN ... «PR Newswire, Jun 15»

The Wireless Network Infrastructure Ecosystem Market 2015-2020 …

Centralized RAN or C-RAN is an architectural shift in RAN (Radio Access Network) design, where the bulk of baseband processing is centralized and ... «PR Newswire, May 15»

Man who ran law firm in NM charged with fraud, identity theft

SAN ANTONIO — A San Antonio man who ran law firms in Texas, Arkansas and New Mexico has been accused of stealing settlement money and identity theft. «Albuquerque Journal, May 15»

Chris Tomlin's Love Ran Red Tour hits the iWireless – Oct. 10

The highly anticipated night of worship will feature new songs from Tomlin's new release, Love Ran Red album along with an array of hits from the past. «KWQC-TV6, May 15»