📖 R — The English dictionary · page 54

rumbling — Everyday, meaning 1: Rumbling is making a long, deep, low sound, like thunder far away or a big truck passing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Rumbling is the sound your tummy makes when you are hungry.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Rumblings are early signs that people are unhappy or that trouble is coming.↗ Example: My tummy was rumbling before lunch.↗ · We heard thunder rumbling in the distance.↗ · A train went rumbling over the bridge.↗ · The volcano had been rumbling for days.↗ · The rumbling of the trucks woke the baby.↗ · There were rumblings of anger among the players.↗ · The ground started rumbling and the dog barked.↗ · The old washing machine was rumbling loudly.↗ · Every now and then a dull rumbling was heard.↗ · At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers look not back to their children for feebleness of hands; (Prophets JER.47.3, JPS 1917)↗

rumen — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The rumen is the first and largest stomach of a cow, sheep or goat, where swallowed food is first stored and softened.↗ Example: He made the letter ʽAyin reign, and bound to it a crown, and formed with it Capricorn in the World, and Tevet in the Year, and the rumen in the Person.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · And these are the Twelve Leaders in the Person: two hands, two legs, two kidneys, spleen, liver, gall, rumen, abomasum, craw.↗ [note 2: Identification of the latter four terms is very strange.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

ruminant — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A ruminant is an animal such as a cow, sheep or goat that chews its cud and has a stomach in several parts.↗ Example: It’s possible that these four are meant to signify the four stomachs of ruminants, the functions of which were not wholly understood in the past and may have been believed to be present in humans.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

ruminate — Everyday, meaning 1: To think deeply about something for a long time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (negative) To keep going over the same worries again and again.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science) Of cows, sheep and goats: to bring food back up from the stomach and chew it again, called chewing the cud.↗ Example: The cows lay in the field, ruminating.↗ · He ruminated on the riddle all evening.↗ · Try not to ruminate about one bad mark.↗ · Sheep and goats ruminate their food.↗ · She ruminated over whether to tell the truth.↗ · The old wizard ruminated by the fire.↗ · Although the number 32 is not ruminated upon any further after SY 1:1, subsequent commentaries have associated it with the 32 occurrences of the name אֱלֹהִים Elohim in [Genesis 1].↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

rummage — Everyday, meaning 1: To rummage is to search by moving things about with your hands, often in a messy heap, looking for something lost.↗ Example: I rummaged in my bag for my keys.↗ · They rummaged in all the corners of the house.↗ · The servants rummaged well, but found nothing.↗ · Dad had a rummage in the attic for the old photos.↗

rummy — Everyday, meaning 1: Rummy is a card game where you try to collect sets (like three kings) and runs (like 4, 5, 6 of hearts).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old-fashioned, UK informal) Rummy means strange or odd.↗ Example: Let's play rummy after dinner.↗ · Grandad always wins at rummy.↗ · In rummy you collect runs and sets.↗ · A run in rummy is three or more cards in order of the same suit.↗ · Gin rummy is played by two people.↗ · That's a rummy business!↗ (old-fashioned)↗

rumor — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A story or report that people pass on, which may not be sure.↗ Example: Destruction and Death say: 'We have heard a rumor thereof with our ears.'↗ (Writings JOB.28.22, JPS 1917)↗

rumour — Everyday, meaning 1: A rumour is a story or piece of news that people pass from one to another, which may not be true and has not been checked.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To be rumoured means people say it but nobody is sure.↗ e.g. It is rumoured that school will close.↗ Example: There is a rumour that we have a new teacher.↗ · Do not spread rumours about other people.↗ · It was only a rumour, it was not true.↗ · Who started that rumour?↗ · The rumour spread around the playground by lunchtime.↗ · Rumours can be very hurtful.↗ · It is rumoured that the old house is haunted.↗ · Check the facts before you believe a rumour.↗ · Then, one day, a rumour reached the king that a large army was marching against him.↗ · Calamity shall come upon calamity, and rumour shall be upon rumour; and they shall seek a vision of the prophet, and instruction shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.↗ (Prophets EZK.7.26, JPS 1917)↗ · Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.'↗ (Prophets 2KI.19.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return unto his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.'↗ (Prophets ISA.37.7, JPS 1917)↗

rump — Everyday, meaning 1: The back end of an animal's body, above the back legs.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (food) A cut of meat from this part: «rump steak».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal, jokey) A person's bottom.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A small leftover part of something bigger, such as a group or parliament after most have left.↗ Example: The horse has a white patch on its rump.↗ · Dad cooked rump steak for dinner.↗ · The robin has an orange chest and a brown rump.↗ · «Get off your rump and help,» joked Grandad.↗ · Only a rump of the club was left after the arguments.↗ · The Rump Parliament ruled England after the Civil War.↗

rumpus — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) A noisy fuss, quarrel or commotion.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (US, Australia, NZ) «Rumpus room»: a family playroom.↗ Example: The dogs caused a rumpus in the garden.↗ · There was a rumpus when the teacher left the room.↗ · Toad's arrival always caused a rumpus.↗ · We played games in the rumpus room.↗ · What's all this rumpus about?↗ · The news caused a rumpus in the village.↗

run — Everyday, meaning 1: To run is to move fast on your feet.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A run is a time of running: a morning run.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A run is a point scored in baseball or cricket.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To run a business, club or machine is to manage it or make it work: the engine runs.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Water or a nose runs when liquid flows.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: To run out (of) is to have none left.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: A bus or train runs when it travels on a route.↗ Everyday, meaning 8: A run is a row of the same thing: a run of good luck.↗ Everyday, meaning 9: (casual) «Do a run» or «a quick run» is a short trip: «a run to the shops».↗ Everyday, meaning 10: (casual, rough) «Leg it», «scarper» and «do a runner» mean run away, often without paying; «run along» is a rude way to say go away.↗ Everyday, meaning 11: (formal) To «operate», «administer» or «conduct» is the stiff word for running a thing: «the service operates every 15 minutes».↗ Everyday, meaning 12: (euphemism) «Run out of time» and «run its course» can softly mean something ended, even a life.↗ Everyday, meaning 13: A road, path or line can run from one place to another, stretching all the way to it.↗ Example: She runs 3 miles every day.↗ · He ran 4 laps of 400 meters.↗ · The team scored 5 runs in the first inning.↗ · How far does she run in a week?↗ · Don't run in the corridor.↗ · We ran out of milk, so I went to the shop.↗ · The buses run every 15 minutes.↗ · Mum runs a small bakery.↗ · quick run to the shop, need 6 eggs, we got 2 (casual)↗ · Leg it, the bus is going!↗ (casual, UK)↗ · We ran out of bloody milk again.↗ (rough)↗ · A bus service operates at intervals of 15 minutes; determine the number of departures within a period of 2 hours.↗ (formal exam)↗ · Inside it runs to the fireside.↗ · And the damsel ran, and told her mother's house according to these words.↗ (Torah GEN.24.28, JPS 1917)↗ · Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a fountain; its branches run over the wall.↗ (Torah GEN.49.22, JPS 1917)↗ · And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said: 'Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.'↗ (Torah NUM.11.27, JPS 1917)↗ · Do horses run upon the rocks?↗ (Prophets AMO.6.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Who sendest forth springs into the valleys; they run between the mountains; (Writings PSA.104.10, JPS 1917)↗ · For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.↗ (Writings PRO.1.16, JPS 1917)↗

runaway — Everyday, meaning 1: noun A person, often a child or teenager, who has run away from home or from somewhere.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: adjective Out of control: a runaway train, a runaway horse.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: adjective Happening very fast or very easily: a runaway success, a runaway winner.↗ Example: The runaway train sped down the hill.↗ · The book was a runaway success.↗ · Police found the runaway safe at the bus station.↗ · The runaway horse galloped through the village.↗ · She was the runaway winner of the race.↗ · If you think about running away, talk to someone at Childline.↗

rune — Everyday, meaning 1: A letter of an old alphabet used by Vikings and other Germanic peoples, carved on wood, stone or bone.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A mark or symbol that is believed to have magic or secret meaning, as in fantasy stories and games.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A rune can also be a short magic chant or verse that is sung or spoken.↗ Example: The Vikings carved runes on stones.↗ · We wrote our names in runes in history class.↗ · The runes on the old sword glowed in the story.↗ · Rune stones can still be seen in Sweden.↗ · The wizard read the runes in his spell book.↗ · Some runes look like straight lines and arrows because they were easy to carve.↗ · Into this his wife laid one of the logs he had cut, and began swinging it, crooning the while a rune beginning↗

rung — Everyday, meaning 1: A rung is one of the bars or steps of a ladder that you put your feet on.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) Rung is a form of "ring".↗ e.g. "The bell has rung."↗ Example: She climbed up the ladder one rung at a time.↗ · The bottom rung of the ladder is broken.↗ · The bell has rung for lunch.↗ · Have you rung Grandma yet?↗ · Hold the sides, not the rungs, when you climb.↗ · This job is the first rung on the ladder.↗ · No bells were rung, and no ringer ever came back.↗

runic — Everyday, meaning 1: Written in runes, the letters used by Germanic peoples such as the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons before the Latin alphabet.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Mysterious or magical, like old runes (literary).↗ Example: The museum has a runic stone from Viking times.↗ · The Vikings' runic alphabet is called the futhark.↗ · We wrote our names in runic letters.↗ · The sword had a runic inscription on the blade.↗ · In the fantasy book, the door was covered in glowing runic symbols.↗ · Runic letters are made of straight lines because they were easy to carve.↗

runnel — Everyday, meaning 1: A very small stream or brook.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A small channel of running water, such as rain running down a path or gutter.↗ Example: A little runnel trickled down the hillside.↗ · Rain made runnels in the sandy path.↗ · We built a dam across the runnel.↗ · Runnels of water ran off the roof.↗ · The frog sat by a muddy runnel.↗ · Sweat ran in runnels down his face.↗

runner — Everyday, meaning 1: A runner is a person who runs, often in a race.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A runner is a thin blade or strip that something slides on, like a sledge or drawer runner.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A runner (UK runner bean) is a plant that spreads by long stems along the ground, like a strawberry runner.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Runners (Australia, NZ, some UK) are running shoes, trainers.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A runner can also be a messenger who carries news or messages quickly.↗ Example: There are 40 runners in the race.↗ · Each runner runs 5 km.↗ · The first runner finished in 18 minutes.↗ · 6 runners dropped out.↗ · The fastest runner on the team is Maya.↗ · Four runners take turns in a relay race.↗ · The strawberry plant sent out runners.↗ · Put on your runners for PE.↗ · The runners lined up at the start.↗ · So the King's runners came for the fool.↗ · Now my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good.↗ (Writings JOB.9.25, JPS 1917)↗ · So shall thy poverty come as a runner, and thy want as an armed man.↗ (Writings PRO.6.11, JPS 1917)↗

running — Everyday, meaning 1: Moving fast on your feet.↗ e.g. "He is running."↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The sport or activity of running.↗ e.g. "Running keeps you fit."↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Flowing.↗ e.g. "running water".↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Working or operating.↗ e.g. "The engine is running."↗ Everyday, meaning 5: In a row, one after another.↗ e.g. "three days running".↗ Everyday, meaning 6: Managing.↗ e.g. "running a shop".↗ Example: She is running in the race.↗ · No running by the pool!↗ · Running is good for your heart.↗ · Wash your hands under running water.↗ · I have a running nose.↗ · We won three games running.↗ · Keep a running total of the points.↗ · Is the engine still running?↗ · Then a fox came running up.↗ · And he shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.↗ (Torah LEV.14.50, JPS 1917)↗ · And the priest shall command to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.↗ (Torah LEV.14.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And for the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the purification from sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel.↗ (Torah NUM.19.17, JPS 1917)↗ · A heart that deviseth wicked thoughts, feet that are swift in running to evil; (Writings PRO.6.18, JPS 1917)↗ · Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.↗ (Writings PRO.5.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And when Naaman saw one running after him, he alighted from the chariot to meet him, and said: 'Is all well?'↗ (Prophets 2KI.5.21, JPS 1917)↗