run upとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

run up (三人称単数 現在形 runs up, 現在分詞 running up, 過去形 ran up, 過去分詞 run up)

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

   The small boy ran up the hill.

2. To run (towards someone または 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.

3. (with to) To approach (an event または point in time).

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

4. (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.

5. To erect hastily, as a building.
6. (idiomatic, transitive) To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly.

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

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

   Stand quietly while the honor guard runs the flag up.

8. (transitive) To string up; to hang.
9. (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!

10. (intransitive)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, II, または III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., OCLC 277979407:

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

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

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

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

    The fence runs up along the edge of the pasture.

語源

run +‎ up, from the verb phrase.

発音

名詞

run-up (複数形 run-ups)

1. (cricket) The approach run of a bowler before delivering the ball.
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^[1]:

     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^[2]:

     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.

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^[3], ISSN 0362-4331:

     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.
   • 2019, Daisuke Ishimura; Keitaro Yamada, “Palaeo-tsunami inundation distances deduced from roundness of gravel particles in tsunami deposits”, in Scientific Reports, volume 9, DOI:10.1038/s41598-019-46584-z, 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"

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