RUN BY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does run by mean? 

• RUN BY (verb)
  The verb RUN BY has 1 sense:

1. pass by while running

  Familiarity information: RUN BY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUN BY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pass by while running

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

We watched children were running by

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

go by; go past; pass; pass by; surpass; travel by (move past)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

The testing program and repository is now run by the NCI Developmental Therapeutics Program (DTP).

(NSC Number, NCI Thesaurus)

What of his bushwhacking and waylaying tactics, the young dogs were afraid to run by themselves.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The little calf always remained standing like one which was eating, and the cow-herd said: “It will soon run by itself, just look how it eats already!”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

But The Hornet was run by a set of clean-shaven, strapping young men, frank buccaneers who robbed everything and everybody, not excepting one another.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Your career is run by your solar tenth house of honors, awards, and achievement, and that house is colored by Uranus, the planet of innovation, which has been retrograde since August 11.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Russia was looking for a Southern Hemisphere partner and found suitable conditions at Pico dos Dias Observatory run by the National Astrophysics Laboratory, which is affiliated to the MCTI.

(High tech Russian telescope to start operating in Brazil, Agência Brasil)

These American bison, commonly called buffalo, came from the National Bison Range in western Montana run by the U.S. federal government.

(Northern Arapaho Tribe welcomes buffalo herd in Wyoming, United States, Wikinews)

The US federal health insurance program run by the Health Care Financing Administration for people 65 years of age or older, certain people with disabilities who have not reached this age, and individuals with permanent kidney failure with dialysis or a transplant.

(Medicare, NCI Thesaurus)

The models run by the team of astrophysicists from Northwestern University showed supernova explosions could eject vast amounts of gas beyond their own galaxies, with atoms transported from one galaxy to another via powerful winds.

(Half Our Body's Atoms Could Have Come from Outside The Galaxy, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Scientists with the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA)—jointly run by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts—conducted the study to clarify the role of whole grains in helping regulate weight, blood sugar levels, and calorie (energy) use, among other benefits.

(Whole Grains Deliver on Health Benefits, U.S. Department of Agriculture)