Run vs. Reign — What's the Difference?

To move swiftly on foot so that both or all feet are not on the ground during each stride.

A reign is the period of a person's or dynasty's occupation of the office of monarch of a nation (e.g., Saudi Arabia, Belgium, Andorra), of a people (e.g., the Franks, the Zulus) or of a spiritual community (e.g., Catholicism, Tibetan Buddhism, Nizari Ismailism). In most hereditary monarchies and some elective monarchies (e.g., Holy Roman Empire) there have been no limits on the duration of a sovereign's reign or incumbency, nor is there a term of office.

To retreat rapidly; flee

Hold royal office; rule as monarch

(Informal) To depart; leave

The period of rule of a monarch

To migrate, especially to move in a shoal in order to spawn. Used of fish.

Exercise of sovereign power, as by a monarch.

To move without hindrance or restraint

The period during which a monarch rules.

To move or go quickly or hurriedly

Dominance or widespread influence

To go when in trouble or distress

To exercise sovereign power

To make a short, quick trip or visit

To hold the title of monarch, but with limited authority.

To take part in a race or contest by running

To be predominant or prevalent

To compete in a race for elected office

The exercise of sovereign power.

To finish a race or contest in a specified position

The period during which a monarch rules.

To move freely, as on wheels

The territory or sphere over which a kingdom; empire; realm; dominion, etc. is ruled.

To travel over a regular route

(intransitive) To exercise sovereign power, to rule as a monarch.

(Nautical) To sail or steer before the wind or on an indicated course

To reign over (a country)

To flow, especially in a steady stream

To be the winner of the most recent iteration of a competition.

To melt and flow

To be a dominant quality of a place or situation; to prevail, predominate, rule.

To emit pus, mucus, or serous fluid

Royal authority; supreme power; sovereignty; rule; dominion.

To be wet or covered with a liquid

The territory or sphere which is reigned over; kingdom; empire; realm; dominion.

To spread or dissolve, as dyes in fabric.

The time during which a king, queen, or emperor possesses the supreme authority; as, it happened in the reign of Elizabeth.

To have dye spread or dissolve

To possess or exercise sovereign power or authority; to exercise government, as a king or emperor;; to hold supreme power; to rule.

To extend, stretch, or reach in a certain direction or to a particular point

Hence, to be predominant; to prevail.

To extend, spread, or climb as a result of growing

To have superior or uncontrolled dominion; to rule.

To become known or prevalent rapidly in or over an area

A period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful;

To unravel along a line

The period during which a monarch is sovereign;

To be valid or in effect, as in a given area

Royal authority; the dominion of a monarch

To be present as a valid accompaniment

Have sovereign power;

To accumulate or accrue

Be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance;

To be in operation; function or work

To pass; elapse

To tend to persist or recur

To pass into or become subject to a specified condition

To take a particular form, order, or expression

To tend or incline

To occupy or exist in a certain range

To be presented or performed

To be published or broadcast, especially as news

To travel over on foot at a pace faster than a walk

To cause (an animal) to move quickly or rapidly

To allow to move without restraint

To hunt or pursue; chase

To cause to move quickly

(Nautical) To cause to move on a course

To cause to be in a given condition

To cause to compete in a race

To present or nominate for elective office

To convey or transport

(Football) To attempt to advance (the ball) by carrying it.

To smuggle

To pass over or through

To cause to flow

To be flowing with

To melt, fuse, or smelt (metal).

To mold or cast (molten metal)

To cause to extend or pass

To mark or trace on a surface

To sew with a continuous line of stitches

To cause to unravel along a line

To submit for consideration or review

To continue to present or perform

To publish in a periodical

To cause to crash or collide

To cause to penetrate

To subject oneself or be subjected to

To have as an ongoing financial obligation

To be as a cost for; cost

To score (balls or points) consecutively in billiards

To clear (the table) in pool by consecutive scores.

To cause to function; operate

To control, manage, or direct

To do or carry out

(Computers) To process or execute (a program or instruction).

To compare (data) with data in a database or other storage medium

An act or period of running

A pace faster than a walk

A distance covered by running or traveling

The time taken to cover such a distance

A quick trip or visit

A scheduled or regular route

A straight course or short distance followed by an aircraft before dropping a bomb on a target.

A stretch or period of riding, as in a race or to the hounds.

(Sports) The distance a golf ball rolls after hitting the ground.

Unrestricted freedom or use of an area

(Sports) A running race

A campaign for public office

(Baseball) A point scored by advancing around the bases and reaching home plate safely.

(Football) A player's act of carrying the ball, usually for a specified distance

The migration of fish, especially in order to spawn.

A group or school of fish ascending a river in order to spawn.

A track or slope along or down which something can travel

A pipe or channel through which something flows.

(Sports) A particular type of passage down a hill or across country experienced by an athlete, such as a skier or bobsledder

A trail or way made or frequented by animals.

An outdoor enclosure for domestic animals or poultry

Australian & New Zealand A tract of open land used for raising livestock; a ranch.

A continuous length or extent of something

The direction, configuration, or lie of something

(Nautical) The immersed part of a ship's hull abaft of the middle body.

A length of torn or unraveled stitches in a knitted fabric.

(Geology) A vein or seam, as of ore or rock.

A continuous period of operation, especially of a machine or factory

The production achieved during such a period

(Computers) An execution of a specific program or instruction.

A movement or flow

The duration or amount of such a flow.

A drip of paint or a mark left by such a drip.

Eastern Lower Northern US See creek.

A fall or slide, as of sand or mud.

An unbroken series or sequence

(Games) A continuous sequence of playing cards in one suit.

An unbroken sequence or period of performances or presentations, as in the theater.

A successful sequence of actions, such as well-played shots or victories in a sport.

(Music) A rapid sequence of notes.

A series of unexpected and urgent demands, as by depositors or customers

A sustained state or condition

A trend or tendency

The average type, group, or category

Runs(Informal)Diarrhea. Often used with the.

Being in a melted or molten state

Completely exhausted from running.

To move swiftly.

(intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. Compare walk.

(intransitive) To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.

(transitive) To cause to move quickly or lightly.

To compete in a race.

(transitive) To transport someone or something, notionally at a brisk pace.

Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).

(transitive) To transit a length of a river, as in whitewater rafting.

(intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.

To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.

(transitive) To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.

(intransitive) To flee from a danger or towards help.

To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.

To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.

(fluids) To flow.

(intransitive) Of a liquid, to flow.

To move or spread quickly.

(intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.

(transitive) To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from or into an object.

(intransitive) To become liquid; to melt.

(intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).

To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.

To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.

(transitive) To control or manage, be in charge of.

(intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.

To make participate in certain kinds of competitions

(transitive) To make run in a race.

(transitive) To make run in an election.

To exert continuous activity; to proceed.

(intransitive) To be presented in the media.

(transitive) To print or broadcast in the media.

(transitive) To smuggle (illegal goods).

To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.

To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.

(intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).

(intransitive) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).

(transitive) To make something extend in space.

(intransitive) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.

(transitive) To make a machine operate.

(transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.

To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.

(copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).

(transitive) To cost a large amount of money.

(intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.

To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.

To cause to enter; to thrust.

To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.

To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.

To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).

To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.

To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.

To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.

To control or have precedence in a card game.

To be in form thus, as a combination of words.

(archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.

To have growth or development.

To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.

To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.

To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).

(golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.

To speedrun.

Past participle of rin

Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.

Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) not necessarily on foot; dash or errand, trip.

A pleasure trip.

Flight, instance or period of fleeing.

Migration of fish.

A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.

A literal or figurative path or course for movement relating to:

A (regular) trip or route.

The route taken while running or skiing.

A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.

The distance sailed by a ship.

A voyage.

A trial.

The execution of a program or model

(video games) A playthrough, or attempted playthrough; a session of play.

Unrestricted use. have the run of.

An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.

Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.

State of being current; currency; popularity.

Continuous or sequential

A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.

A series of tries in a game that were successful.

A production quantity (such as in a factory).

The period of showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.

(slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.

(card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.

(music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.

A flow of liquid; a leak.

A small creek or part thereof. Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.

A quick pace, faster than a walk.

(of horses) A fast gallop.

(banking) A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.

Any sudden large demand for something.

Various horizontal dimensions or surfaces

The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.

The horizontal length of a set of stairs

(construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.

A standard or unexceptional group or category.

In sports

(baseball) A score when a runner touches all bases legally; the act of a runner scoring.

(cricket) The act of passing from one wicket to another; the point scored for this.

(American football) A running play.

(golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.

(golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.

The distance drilled with a bit, in oil drilling.

A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.

(nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.

(mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.

A pair or set of millstones.

(speedrunning) Shortening of speedrun.

In a liquid state; melted or molten.

Cast in a mould.

Exhausted; depleted especially with "down" or "out".

Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.

Smuggled.

To move, proceed, advance, pass, go, come, etc., swiftly, smoothly, or with quick action; - said of things animate or inanimate. Hence, to flow, glide, or roll onward, as a stream, a snake, a wagon, etc.; to move by quicker action than in walking, as a person, a horse, a dog.

To go swiftly; to pass at a swift pace; to hasten.

To flee, as from fear or danger.

To flow, as a liquid; to ascend or descend; to course; as, rivers run to the sea; sap runs up in the spring; her blood ran cold.

To steal off; to depart secretly.

To become fluid; to melt; to fuse.

Specifically, of a horse: To move rapidly in a gait in which each leg acts in turn as a propeller and a supporter, and in which for an instant all the limbs are gathered in the air under the body.

To contend in a race; hence, to enter into a contest; to become a candidate; as, to run for Congress.

To turn, as a wheel; to revolve on an axis or pivot; as, a wheel runs swiftly round.

To move rapidly by springing steps so that there is an instant in each step when neither foot touches the ground; - so distinguished from walking in athletic competition.

To pass from one state or condition to another; to come into a certain condition; - often with in or into; as, to run into evil practices; to run in debt.

To go back and forth from place to place; to ply; as, the stage runs between the hotel and the station.

To exert continuous activity; to proceed; as, to run through life; to run in a circle.

To continue in operation; to be kept in action or motion; as, this engine runs night and day; the mill runs six days in the week.

To discuss; to continue to think or speak about something; - with on.

To have a course or direction; as, a line runs east and west.

To be in form thus, as a combination of words.

To be popularly known; to be generally received.

To have growth or development; as, boys and girls run up rapidly.

To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.

To spread and blend together; to unite; as, colors run in washing.

To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company; as, certain covenants run with the land.

To continue without falling due; to hold good; as, a note has thirty days to run.

To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.

To cause to enter; to thrust; as, to run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into the foot.

To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.

To fuse; to shape; to mold; to cast; as, to run bullets, and the like.

To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine; as, to run a line.

To cause to pass, or evade, offical restrictions; to smuggle; - said of contraband or dutiable goods.

To go through or accomplish by running; as, to run a race; to run a certain career.

To cause to stand as a candidate for office; to support for office; as, to run some one for Congress.

To encounter or incur, as a danger or risk; as, to run the risk of losing one's life. See To run the chances, below.

To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.

To discharge; to emit; to give forth copiously; to be bathed with; as, the pipe or faucet runs hot water.

To be charged with, or to contain much of, while flowing; as, the rivers ran blood.

To conduct; to manage; to carry on; as, to run a factory or a hotel.

To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.

To sew, as a seam, by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.

To migrate or move in schools; - said of fish; esp., to ascend a river in order to spawn.

To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.

The act of running; as, a long run; a good run; a quick run; to go on the run.

A small stream; a brook; a creek.

That which runs or flows in the course of a certain operation, or during a certain time; as, a run of must in wine making; the first run of sap in a maple orchard.

A course; a series; that which continues in a certain course or series; as, a run of good or bad luck.

State of being current; currency; popularity.

Continued repetition on the stage; - said of a play; as, to have a run of a hundred successive nights.

A continuing urgent demand; especially, a pressure on a bank or treasury for payment of its notes.

A range or extent of ground for feeding stock; as, a sheep run.

The aftermost part of a vessel's hull where it narrows toward the stern, under the quarter.

A pleasure excursion; a trip.

The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by license of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.

A roulade, or series of running tones.

The greatest degree of swiftness in marching. It is executed upon the same principles as the double-quick, but with greater speed.

The act of migrating, or ascending a river to spawn; - said of fish; also, an assemblage or school of fishes which migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.

In baseball, a complete circuit of the bases made by a player, which enables him to score one point; also, the point thus scored; in cricket, a passing from one wicket to the other, by which one point is scored; as, a player made three runs; the side went out with two hundred runs; the Yankees scored three runs in the seventh inning.

A pair or set of millstones.

A number of cards of the same suit in sequence; as, a run of four in hearts.

The movement communicated to a golf ball by running.

Melted, or made from molten material; cast in a mold; as, run butter; run iron or lead.

Smuggled; as, run goods.

A score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely;

The act of testing something;

A race run on foot;

An unbroken series of events;

(American football) a play in which a player runs with the ball;

A regular trip;

The act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace;

The continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation;

Unrestricted freedom to use;

The production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.);

A small stream

A race between candidates for elective office;

A row of unravelled stitches;

The pouring forth of a fluid

An unbroken chronological sequence;

A short trip;

Move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time;

Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run;

Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point;

Direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.;

Have a particular form;

Move along, of liquids;

Perform as expected when applied;

Change or be different within limits;

Run, stand, or compete for an office or a position;

Cause to emit recorded sounds;

Move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way;

Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined;

Carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine;

Be operating, running or functioning;

Change from one state to another;

Cause to perform;

Be affected by; be subjected to;

Continue to exist;

Occur persistently;

Include as the content; broadcast or publicize;

Carry out;

Guide or pass over something;

Cause something to pass or lead somewhere;

Make without a miss

Deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor

Cause an animal to move fast;

Be diffused;

Sail before the wind

Cover by running; run a certain distance;

Extend or continue for a certain period of time;

Set animals loose to graze

Keep company;

Run with the ball; in such sports as football

Travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means;

Travel a route regularly;

Pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals);

Compete in a race;

Progress by being changed;

Reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating;

Come unraveled or undone as if by snagging;

Become undone;