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PRONUNCIATION OF RAT-RUNNING

rat-running play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RAT-RUNNING

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verb
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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Rat-Running is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES RAT-RUNNING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of rat-running in the English dictionary

The definition of rat-running in the dictionary is the practice of driving through residential side streets to avoid congested main roads.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RAT-RUNNING

rat tamer
rat trap
rat-a-tat
rat-a-tat-tat
rat-arsed
rat-catcher
rat-catching
rat-infested
rat-run
rat-runner
rat-tail
rat-tat
rat-tat-tat
rat-trap
rata
ratability
ratable
ratable value
ratableness
ratably

WORDS THAT END LIKE RAT-RUNNING

award-winning
banning
beginning
canning
caravanning
cleaning
cunning
fanning
free-running
inning
Manning
planning
running
scanning
spanning
spinning
stunning
tanning
thinning
up and running
winning

Synonyms and antonyms of rat-running in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «rat-running» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RAT-RUNNING

Find out the translation of rat-running to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of rat-running from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «rat-running» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

大鼠运行
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ratas corriendo
570 millions of speakers

English

rat-running
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

चूहे से चल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يعمل بنظام التشغيل و الفئران
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

крыса - работает
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

duração rato
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ইঁদুর চলা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

rat - course
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berlari tikus
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ratte Lauf
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ラットランニング
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

쥐 실행
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tikus-mlaku
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chuột chạy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எலி ஓடிக்கொண்டிருக்கும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

घूस-धावणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Sıçan çalışan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

- rat esecuzione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

szczur -running
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

щур - працює
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

-running șobolan
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αρουραίος - τρέξιμο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

rat- bestuur
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

rat- kör
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

rotte - kjører
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of rat-running

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RAT-RUNNING»

The term «rat-running» is normally little used and occupies the 150.566 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «RAT-RUNNING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about rat-running

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RAT-RUNNING»

Discover the use of rat-running in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rat-running and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Have Pots, Will Travel: A Camp Cook’s Adventure in the ...
I simply could not sleep with a pack rat running around right near me. Without turning on any of the lights, I got up. Quietly, I grabbed the lantern and took it to the kitchen—I had full intentions of hunting that rat, and the lantern could very well ...
Anna Källström, 2014
2
The Rat and the Frog
What happened next was possibly one of the strangest sights in history-- a big rat , running on two legs with a wagging tail sticking out of his overalls, weaving in and out of petrified New Yorkers,chasingabluemanandaflyingglowinggoldenball.
Daryl Burch, Teddy Burch
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Crossrail Bill: first special report, session 2006-07, Vol. ...
So far as the concern about rat-running down Durward Street is concerned, which is one that we are very conscious of because at the moment there is no access out of Durward Street so it cannot be used as a rat-run but with our proposals it ...
Great Britain: Parliament: Select Committee on the Crossrail Bill, 2007
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Photoperiodism, Metatonin and the Pineal
(B) Single and (C—G) double-plotted rat running-wheel activity records. Hatched areas indicate darkness. Stage 1, 12:12 LD cycle; Stage 2, 7h phase-advance of darkness; Stage 3, DD with subcutaneous injections of pindolol, AVT or ...
CIBA Foundation Symposium, 2009
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The Rat: A Study in Behavior
An important feature of such changes of behaviour is that they are adaptive : that is, they tend to make more probable the survival of the individual or the species. On the one hand the rat running to cover may escape a predator. On the other, a  ...
S. Anthony Barnett, Samuel Anthony Barnett, 2007
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Behind the Door
Again, there was the brush-brush sound of the rat running. It was hard to see him. I mean, a rat is grey and the concrete wall is grey and the light wasn't all that good. But you could hear the rat running. Delmar was watching hard. He kept ...
Paul Kropp, 2007
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A5 Queue Relocation in Dunstable - Wider Lessons: Highways ...
8 On rat-running, the Agency knew from its modelling that some drivers would transfer to local routes to complete their journeys. It did not, however, commission quantitative survey data on residential road usage in Dunstable prior to work ...
Great Britain: National Audit Office, 2006
8
Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2006: 16th International ...
Using our simulator, we performed a number of tests with the artificial rat running in various mazes. A T-maze is the simplest type of maze used in experiments with rats. A passage in a shape of the letter T forces the rat to choose the direction, ...
Stefanos Kollias, 2006
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Network Administrators Survival Guide
A complete list of the ncat_config questions is also included in the cisco-ios- router-questionnaire.pdf document, located at the default location of C:\CIS\RAT. Running RAT RAT is currently only available as a CLI-based tool. The command  ...
Anand Deveriya, 2005
10
Hubert Humphrey: A Biography
Young blacks yelling "Honky, go home" drove him out of a hall in Watts — "like a rat running across the street with everyone shouting, 'Throw something at it,' " a press report jeered. Five thousand anti-war demonstrators, all white, ringed ...
Carl Solberg, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RAT-RUNNING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term rat-running is used in the context of the following news items.
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New ban on lorries set to close rat run
LORRIES rat-running through Covingham will be banned from travelling along Kingfisher Drive after a review of a temporary order in Merlin Way. For decades ... «This Is Wiltshire, Jul 15»
2
Proposed action to combat rat-running near Hailsham 'unacceptable'
More than 350 residents of Arlington and Caneheath have signed a petition calling on East Sussex County Council to improve road safety around Arlington as ... «Sussex Express, Jul 15»
3
Westminster's "extremely disappointing" Quietway proposals that will …
Thanks to a reliance on contra-flow cycle tracks, where riders in the other direction will have to cycle with rat-running traffic, the three routes under consultation ... «road.cc, Jul 15»
4
Safety fears raised after fatal crash in Worthing
CONCERNS over rat-running in a Worthing street which last month was the site of a ... Residents' Association, said she was well aware of rat-running concerns. «Worthing Herald, Jul 15»
5
700000 drivers a year rat-running on a banned road near Cambridge
More than 700,000 drivers a year are rat-running on a banned road to bypass the A14 near Cambridge - but police "can't handle the volume of traffic". Cars and ... «Cambridge News, Jun 15»
6
School-run traffic makes north Newtown in Cambridge 'a positively …
"Too many rat-running cars go through the area, we have too many school drop-off cars coming into the area – we have too many people visiting the area who ... «Cambridge News, Mar 15»
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Move to stop brazen drivers rat-running through Parriwi Rd, Mosman …
RESIDENTS and Mosman Council have called on Roads and Maritime Services to install $50,000 traffic lights at the Spit East carpark to stop drivers from using ... «The Daily Telegraph, Feb 15»
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Rat-running motorists churn up idyllic village green in Salford
An idyllic village green has been churned up by rat-running 'macho' drivers. The Green, at Worsley, the historic centre of one Salford's most upmarket suburbs, ... «Manchester Evening News, Jan 15»
9
Rat running made worse by 20mph zones
... from traffic: some may need to slow down their own residents and reduce the risk of accidents, others have a 'rat-running' problem that a 20mph speed limit on ... «Telegraph.co.uk, May 14»
10
Residents of St Neots villages speak out over speeding and rat
Residents of St Neots villages speak out over speeding and rat-running. 08:00 26 April 2014. Lauren Nash. Traffic in Yelling. Archant. Residents are calling on ... «Hunts Post, Apr 14»

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