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RUN UP

Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pile up (debts or scores)play

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "run up" is one way to...):

accumulate; amass; collect; compile; hoard; pile up; roll up (get or gather together)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fasten by sewing; do needleworkplay

Synonyms:

run up; sew; sew together; stitch

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "run up" is one way to...):

fasten; fix; secure (cause to be firmly attached)

"Run up" entails doing...:

conjoin; join (make contact or come together)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "run up"):

hem (fold over and sew together to provide with a hem)

resew (sew again)

overcast (sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next)

overcast (sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches)

backstitch (do backstitches)

gather; pucker; tuck (draw together into folds or puckers)

finedraw (sew together very finely)

fell (sew a seam by folding the edges)

baste; tack (sew together loosely, with large stitches)

hemstitch (sew with hemstitches)

retick; tick (sew)

cast on (make the first row of stitches when knitting)

cast off (make the last row of stitches when knitting)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Raiseplay

Example:

hoist a sail

Synonyms:

hoist; run up

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "run up" is one way to...):

bring up; elevate; get up; lift; raise (raise from a lower to a higher position)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Make by sewing together quicklyplay

Example:

run up a skirt

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "run up" is one way to...):

sew; tailor; tailor-make (create (clothes) with cloth)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence example:

They run up the cape


Sense 5

Meaning:

Accumulate as a debtplay

Example:

he chalked up $100 in the course of the evening

Synonyms:

chalk up; run up

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "run up" is one way to...):

owe (be obliged to pay or repay)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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 Context examples: 

But its general shape must be what I have indicated, and it can run up a curtain, and it is carnivorous.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I wish I could run up to town for a day or two to see you, dear, but I dare not go yet, with so much on my shoulders; and Jonathan wants looking after still.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We had run up the trades to get the wind of the island we were after—I am not allowed to be more plain—and now we were running down for it with a bright lookout day and night.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Had it not been my custom to run up to see him every Saturday afternoon and to stop over till Monday morning, this particular January Monday morning would not have found me afloat on San Francisco Bay.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Gatsby asked me to wait until he was free and I lingered in the garden until the inevitable swimming party had run up, chilled and exalted, from the black beach, until the lights were extinguished in the guest rooms overhead.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)




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