Synonyms for run-up
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ruhn |
| Phonetic Transcription : rÊŒn |
Top 10 synonyms for run-up
Définition of run-up
Origin :- 1834, "an act of running upward," from verbal phrase, from run (v.) + up (adv.). Extended sense "period of time or sequence of events proceeding some important event" is from 1966.
- As in curtain raiser : noun short preliminary event
- Now was the time he had judged the throat vane gyros should begin their run-up.
- Extract from : « Far from Home » by J.A. Taylor
- Before there was time to think or dream, I landed very beautifully upon a ridge of run-up snow in a quiet corner.
- Extract from : « Lorna Doone » by R. D. Blackmore
- The back of a book with a fillet from head to tail not mitred at the bands is said to be run-up.
- Extract from : « Library Bookbinding » by Arthur Low Bailey
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