run up

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil 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.”

2. fiil To approach (an event or point in time).

   “We are putting on lots of special attractions as we run up to Christmas.”

3. fiil To take to a destination or before an authority.

   “[…] and I took him along and ran him up to police headquarters.”

4. fiil 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”

5. fiil To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly.

   “I'll run you up a skirt for tomorrow evening.”

6. fiil To bring (a flag) to the top of its flag pole.

   “Stand quietly while the honor guard runs the flag up.”

7. fiil To string up; to hang.
8. fiil 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!”

9. fiil To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase.

   “Accounts of goods credited run up very fast.”

10. fiil To accumulate (a debt).

    “He ran up over $5,000 in unpaid bills.”

11. fiil To thrust up, as anything long and slender.

    “The fence runs up along the edge of the pasture.”

12. fiil To warm up and test an airplane before a flight.
13. fiil To accumulate money, drugs, etc.

    “I run me up some big bills.”

14. fiil Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, up.

    “The small boy ran up the hill.”

15. isim Alternative form of run-up.