run upとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

run up (third-person singular simple present runs up, present participle running up, simple past ran up, past participle run up)

1. To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination.

   As I was walking along the road, a man suddenly ran up to me.

   The dog ran up under the table to get his food.

2. (with to) To approach (an event or point in time).

   We are putting on lots of special attractions as we run up to Christmas.

3. (transitive) To take to a destination or before an authority.
   • 1924, Michigan. Supreme Court, Michigan Reports, volume 226, page 46:

     […] and I took him along and ran him up to police headquarters.

4. (dated) To erect hastily, as a building.

   Synonyms: throw up (dated), knock up, knock together, slap together

   • 1840 February, Edgar Allan Poe, “Peter Pendulum, the Business Man”, in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine‎, volume 6, number 2, page 87:

     we wait until the palace is half-way up, and then we pay some tasty architect to run us up an ornamental mud hovel, right against it

5. (idiomatic, transitive) To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly.

   I'll run you up a skirt for tomorrow evening.

6. (idiomatic, transitive) To bring (a flag) to the top of its flag pole.

   Stand quietly while the honor guard runs the flag up.

7. (transitive) To string up; to hang.
8. (cricket) Of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball.

   He runs up... and bowls. Smashed away for four runs!

9. (intransitive, transitive) To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase.

   Accounts of goods credited run up very fast.

   • 1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:

     But these, having been untrimmed for many years, had run up into great bushes, or rather dwarf trees.

   • 2009 February 6, Roy Furchgott, “Google Glitch May Run Up Phone Bills”, in New York Times‎:

     Google Glitch May Run Up Phone Bills [title]

10. (idiomatic) To accumulate (a debt).

    He ran up over $5,000 in unpaid bills.

11. To thrust up, as anything long and slender.

    The fence runs up along the edge of the pasture.

12. (aviation, transitive) To warm up and test an airplane before a flight.
13. (African-American Vernacular, slang, sometimes reflexive) To accumulate money, drugs, etc.

    I run me up some big bills.

14. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run,‎ up.

    The small boy ran up the hill.

名詞

run up (plural run ups)

1. Alternative form of run-up

参考

• run up against
• run up on

アナグラム

• nupur, uprun

語源

Deverbal from run up.

発音

名詞

run-up (plural run-ups)

1. (cricket) The approach run of a bowler before delivering the ball.

   Jasprit Bumrah has the most unique run-up in the history of cricket.

2. The approach run of a high jumper or other athlete in order to gather speed or momentum.
   • 2011 September 29, Tom Rostance, “Stoke 2 - 1 Besiktas”, in BBC Sport‎:

     But he still saw his side produce a rousing display which owed much to their lauded prowess from set-pieces, despite Uefa regulations meaning the pitch had to be widened and, in the process, the run-up area for Delap's long throws reduced.

3. A period of time just before an important event.

   The candidates were very nervous in the run-up to the election.

   • 2022 September 21, Alex Hern, “TikTok tightens policies around political issues in run-up to US midterms”, in The Guardian‎:

     Politicians on TikTok will no longer be able to use the app tipping tools, nor access advertising features on the social network, as the company tightens its policies around political issues in the run-up to the US midterm elections in six weeks’ time.

   • 2023 April 19, “Network News: First tram on Wolverhampton extension”, in RAIL, number 981, page 12, image caption:

     Further trials and commissioning of the newly laid track will take place in the run-up to the launch of passenger services in June.

4. An increase in the value or amount of something.

   Synonym: hike

   Economists expect a run-up of long-term interest rates.

   • 2006 December 22, Andrew E. Kramer, “A Price Run-Up for Run-Down Communes”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     A Price Run-Up for Run-Down Communes [title]

5. (oceanography) The extent of a wave's reach onto land as the result of a tsunami or storm such as a cyclone.

   I found sand pushed all the way to the edge of my home by the run-up of Wednesday's tsunami.

   • 2019, Daisuke Ishimura, Keitaro Yamada, “Palaeo-tsunami inundation distances deduced from roundness of gravel particles in tsunami deposits”, in Scientific Reports, volume 9, →DOI, page 2:

     Historical records of tsunamis in this region are available for the last 400 years, and the run-up heights of historical tsunamis at Koyadori were estimated and measured"

6. (aviation, transitive) The process of warming up and testing an airplane before a flight.

参考

• lead-up

アナグラム

• nupur, uprun