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Definition of "run through" []

  • (idiomatic) To briefly summarise (verb)
  • To inform or educate someone, typically of a new concept or a concept particular to an organization or industry (verb)
  • To repeat something. (verb)
  • To use completely, in a short space of time. Usually money. (verb)
  • To pervade, of a quality that is characteristic of a group, organisation, or system. (verb)

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Use "run through" in a sentence
  • "“Freddo,” as he was known, preceded the crew into the spacecraft by some ninety minutes in order to run through a 417-step checklist designed to ensure that every switch was set in its proper position."
  • "The anthems are indeed exquisite, although (as may appropriately be noted in the connection) they run through the gamut of medieval literary style, from the classical hexameters of the "Alma Redemptoris Mater" through the richly-rhymed accentual rhythm and regular strophes of the "Ave Regina Coelorum", the irregular syntonic strophe of the "Regina Coeli", down to the sonorous prose rhythms (with rhyming closes) of the Salve Regina."
  • "The process of demyelination interrupts the electrical impulses that run through these nerve fibers, causing weakness and paralysis."