run in🔊

(pos=adj) (styled open when in predicative position)

(typography) {{lb|en|not (id=grammar)}} Having been run in before or behind previous text.

(engineering) {{lb|en|sometimes (id=grammar)}} Having been run in to seat the parts.

(run-in) (omitting the hyphens from nouns of this type is nonstandard in formal publications but widely seen in unedited writing)

(arrest or especially track down and arrest) (in the passive) To arrest; (especially) to track down and arrest.

(British) To use new machinery at less than full speed, preventing damage.

(figuratively) To start a new regime slowly. +

(rugby) To score (a try).

(printing) To insert (a word, etc.) without making a line break or new paragraph (so that it is not free-hanging).

(printing) To alter the position of matter to fill vacant space.

(ed-form)