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ran en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ɹan/ (British, Northern-England, Southern, Standard)
  • /ɹɛn/ (New-Zealand)
  • răn
  • (US) audio
  • /ɹæn/ (US)
  • /ɹæn/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ɾan/ (Scotland, Wales)
  • [ɹɛən] (US)
  • (Australia) audio
  • /ɹæːn/ (Australia)

Meanings

  1. (form-of, past) simple past of run
    form of run
  2. (form-of, past) simple past of rin
    form of rin
  3. (colloquial, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past) past participle of run
    form of run
    • I’ve ran this event many times but in the year 2000, when we were running over the Bodmin Moor part of the course, it lashed down with large, freezing-cold hailstones. 2012 March 5, Helen Summer, Running Crazy, John Blake Publishing, →ISBN, page 209:
    • " Heretics and schismatics, because they rebel against her, and only belong to the church, as deserters to an army from which they have ran away ;[…] 1837, William Keary, Romanism exposed; or, Strictures on two lectures […] , Goddard and Brown, page 6:
    • […]rather to convince the Underſtanding, than to be eaſily capable of being anſwered ; excuſing your ſelf that you have ran into an Error, ſo foreign as you have declared from your Intention,[…] 1731, Philippus van Limborch, translated by Samuel Chandler, The History of the Inquisition, volume 1, page 231:
Source: en.wiktionary, “ran” (verb), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

ran en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /ɹan/ (British, Northern-England, Southern, Standard)
  • /ɹɛn/ (New-Zealand)
  • răn
  • (US) audio
  • /ɹæn/ (US)
  • /ɹæn/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ɾan/ (Scotland, Wales)
  • [ɹɛən] (US)
  • (Australia) audio
  • /ɹæːn/ (Australia)

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.

Relateds

on the ran tan (etymologically unrelated terms)