What does run-in mean?
Definitions for run-in
run-in
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Princeton's WordNet
quarrel, wrangle, row, words, run-in, dustupnoun
an angry dispute
"they had a quarrel"; "they had words"
GCIDE
Run-innoun
An argument or quarrel.
Wiktionary
run-innoun
An encounter; a scrape or brush; especially one involving trouble or difficulty.
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run-in
A run-in generally refers to an unexpected encounter or conflict with someone. It can also refer to a type of sentence structure in which a subordinated or related thought runs into the main clause, separated only by a comma. In industrial terminology, a run-in period is the initial stage of operation where a machine or engine is tested or conditioned for regular use.
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inrun
inurn
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of run-in in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of run-in in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of run-in in a Sentence
This was a tragic incident that ended the life of a man and devastated his family, a violent run-in that should never have happened, violence is never the answer to settling a dispute.
My page is run in a tongue-in-cheek way so I can never back down, so I fought fire with fire.
When I had that run in' 14, I didn't really celebrate it too much, it was almost as if I was playing an eight-round tournament, and that's how I feel here. I've played really well these four days and it sets me up for next week.
To run in the right direction all you need is a bearing, so it may be 40 degrees north that you need to run for a certain amount of time. So we created an app that would notify me if I deviated from the desired bearing. And the way it did that was using beeps, much like parking sensors, so the further you deviated from the bearing the higher the frequency of the beeps.
I don't know about that, but, yeah, it was a nice run, in the end, it didn't really turn out to anything.
Translations for run-in
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- correr emPortuguese
- стычкаRussian
- 跑進Chinese
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