Dictionary entry details
• RUNNER (noun)
Meaning:
Someone who imports or exports without paying duties
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
contrabandist; moon curser; moon-curser; runner; smuggler
Hypernyms ("runner" is a kind of...):
criminal; crook; felon; malefactor; outlaw (someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "runner"):
coyote (someone who smuggles illegal immigrants into the United States (usually across the Mexican border))
arms-runner; gunrunner (a smuggler of guns)
rumrunner (someone who illegally smuggles liquor across a border)
Meaning:
Someone who travels on foot by running
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("runner" is a kind of...):
traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "runner"):
jogger (someone who runs a steady slow pace (usually for exercise))
Meaning:
A person who is employed to deliver messages or documents
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Context example:
he sent a runner over with the contract
Hypernyms ("runner" is a kind of...):
courier; messenger (a person who carries a message)
Meaning:
A baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
base runner; runner
Hypernyms ("runner" is a kind of...):
ballplayer; baseball player (an athlete who plays baseball)
Domain category:
baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)
Meaning:
A horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
stolon; offset; runner
Hypernyms ("runner" is a kind of...):
plant organ (a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus)
Meaning:
A trained athlete who competes in foot races
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("runner" is a kind of...):
athlete; jock (a person trained to compete in sports)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "runner"):
sprinter (someone who runs a short distance at top speed)
miler (a runner in a one-mile race)
long-distance runner; marathon runner; marathoner; road runner (someone who participates in long-distance races (especially in marathons))
Meaning:
A long narrow carpet
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("runner" is a kind of...):
carpet; carpeting; rug (floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile))
Meaning:
Device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("runner" is a kind of...):
device (an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "runner"):
blade (the part of the skate that slides on the ice)
ski (narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used in pairs for gliding over snow)
Holonyms ("runner" is a part of...):
sled; sledge; sleigh (a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow)
Meaning:
Fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
blue runner; Caranx crysos; runner
Hypernyms ("runner" is a kind of...):
jack (any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas)
