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I want to be an actor, and I am being an actor. I'm not ready to run off on a road trip. Yet.
Liane Balaban

Meaning of "run off" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF RUN OFF

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RUN OFF

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Run off is a verb and can also act as 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.

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

WHAT DOES RUN OFF MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Runoff

Run-off or runoff may refer to: ▪ Surface runoff, the flow of water, from rain, snow melt, or other sources, over land ▪ Runoff model, a mathematical model describing the rainfall-runoff relations of a rainfall catchment area or watershed ▪ Runoff curve number, an empirical parameter used in hydrology ▪ Runoff voting or Two-round system, a voting system used to elect a single winner, whereby only two candidates from the first round continue to the second round ▪ Instant-runoff voting, an electoral system in which voters rank the candidates in order of preference ▪ RUNOFF, the first computer text formatting program, running on the CTSS operating system ▪ Runoff, the type-setting program on the Multics operating system ▪ Run-off area, an area on a racetrack for racer safety ▪ Bleed, printing that goes beyond the edge of the sheet after trimming...

Definition of run off in the English dictionary

The first definition of run off in the dictionary is to depart in haste. Other definition of run off is to produce quickly, as copies on a duplicating machine. Run off is also to drain or to be drained.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RUN OFF

run away
run away with
run close
run counter to
run down
run for it
run in
run into
run its course
run of the mill
run off at the mouth
run off with
run on
run out
run out on
run over
run rings around
run riot
run something up the flagpole
run the gauntlet

WORDS THAT END LIKE RUN OFF

better off
burn off
cut off
day off
drop off
get off
harden off
hold off
jerk off
kick off
on and off
pay off
pension off
set off
show off
sign off
spin off
take off
time off
turn off

Synonyms and antonyms of run off in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «RUN OFF»

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

Translation of «run off» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RUN OFF

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

Translator English - Chinese

逃跑
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

escorrentía
570 millions of speakers

English

run off
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

भागना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

هرب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

бежать
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fugir
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বন্ধ রান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

s´enfuir
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lari
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

ablaufen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

流れ落ちる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

도망
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mlayu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chạy ra
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ரன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बंद
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kaçmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fuggire
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

uciekł
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

бігти
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fugi
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απορροή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

afloop
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

rymt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

avrenning
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of run off

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RUN OFF»

The term «run off» is quite widely used and occupies the 32.713 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «RUN OFF» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «run off» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «run off» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about run off

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10 QUOTES WITH «RUN OFF»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word run off.
1
Liane Balaban
I want to be an actor, and I am being an actor. I'm not ready to run off on a road trip. Yet.
2
Rick Ferrell
We were brothers off the field, but there was no love lost on it. We fought like cats and dogs. Wes was always trying to strike me out, and meantime, I was always trying to hit a home run off him.
3
Waite Hoyt
There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and he hit a home run off Lefty Williams over the left-field fence in the ninth inning and won the game. It was majestic. It soared.
4
D. L. Hughley
I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.
5
Mika
I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
6
Laurie Notaro
I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of stories and run off at the mouth. I'm a big tangent person.
7
Adrianne Palicki
I was the kid growing up who would play with G.I. Joes in a pink dress and then run off to play with my Barbies. It doesn't mean that I'm less girly, it just means that I have this other side of me. It's kinda cool to be a little bit of both, I think.
8
Ellen Swallow Richards
If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.
9
Dana Rohrabacher
But also, the guest workers program, it's quite often misused, meaning people could come in as part of a guest workers program and after two weeks in the fields, they'd run off to do every other kind of job that isn't covered by a guest workers program.
10
Claudia Schiffer
I'm amazed when I see mothers wearing high heels. If your kids run off you can't run after them.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RUN OFF»

Discover the use of run off in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to run off and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Groundwater Recharge from Run-off, Infiltration and Percolation
Audience This book will be of interest to hydrologists, hydro-geologists, engineers, geographers, agronomists, soil scientists, groundwater modellers, environmental physicists, limnologists
K.-P. Seiler, J.R. Gat, 2007
2
Siberian River Run-off in the Kara Sea: Characterisation, ...
Within the joint German-Russian research project "Siberian River Run-off (SIRRO)" multidisciplinary studies were carried out in the Ob and Yenisei estuaries and adjacent southern Kara Sea (Arctic Ocean).
Stein Ruediger, 2003
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Miscellaneous Publication
This is a report on the results of studies conducted at the Makwapala station on run-off and soil washing, terracing, and resistance crops. Soil conditions at the Port Herald station are discussed. Duley, F. L. (3052) CONTROLLING SURFACE  ...
‎1938
4
Studies of relations of rainfall and run-off in the United ...
The stream flow that has occurred under such conditions must have resulted mostly from the small amounts of surface run-off resulting from lntense rainfall of short duration or melting snow which the ground could not absorb or from seepage ...
William Glenn Hoyt, 1936
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Olive River Run-off Plots Description of the Experiment
Fig. 2 lop-view of layout of the run-off Fig. 7 Cross Section of Hillside Ditch,. experiment plots Legends 1 Barb- wire fern,*: 2 En.tr ail „t .-ate 3 Earth wall h plot boundary wall 5 Plot area 6 Plot pavement 7 Hi llside ditch 8 Grass buffer strip 9 ...
6
The Ganga: Water Use in the Indian Subcontinent
On the south, Yamuna joins the Ganga at Allahabad where its total annual run-off is more than that of the Ganga. The average annual run-off of the Ganga is about 0.06 trillion (1012) cubic metre against 0.09 trillion (1012) cubic metre for the ...
Pranab Kumar Parua, 2010
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Fire damage from increased run-off and erosion, Cleveland ...
Cover title.
Charles C Buck, Wallace Leo Fons, Clive M. Countryman, 1948
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Power System Operation and Control
6.4 CO-ORDINATION OF RUN-OFF RIVER PLANT AND STEAM PLANT A run-off river hydro-plant operates as the water is available in needed quantities. These plants are provided with a small pondage or reservoir, which makes it possible ...
S. Sivanagaraju, 2009
9
Engineering Geology and Construction
A detailed understanding of the run-off processes involved in a catchment and stream channels is required for the development of flood forecasting but is less necessary for long-term prediction. The ability to provide enough advance warning ...
Fred G. Bell, 2004
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Elements of Water Resources Engineering
INTRODUCTION The run off process was discussed in chapter 1. It was pointed out that run off from the catchment comprised of the overland, inter flow and the ground water flow and all these three contribute to the stream flow. While the ...
K. N. Duggal, J. P. Soni, 1996

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RUN OFF»

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Poland's Presidential Election Heads for Contentious Runoff
WARSAW—Poland's presidential election is set for a run off between the conservative opposition candidate and the center-right incumbent, whose departure ... «Wall Street Journal, May 15»

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