rundown
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run·down
(rŭn'doun') 
n.
n.
- A point-by-point summary.
- Baseball. A play in which a runner is trapped between bases and is pursued by fielders attempting to make the tag.
- In poor physical condition; weak or exhausted.
- Dirty and dilapidated: rundown housing projects.
- Unwound and not running: a run-down watch.
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In general: status report or summary.
Municipal bonds: summary of the amounts available and the prices on units in a Serial Bond that has not yet been completely sold to the public.
| Rumortrage, Rules of Fair Practice | |
| Running Ahead, Runoff |
Oxford Food & Fitness Dictionary:
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run down
In sport and exercise, a decrease in performance caused by:
• factors outside sport which tend to drain the body of physical energy (such as lack of adequate sleep)
• excessive physical exercise (see overtraining)
• overstraining which may cause exercise-related injuries (see overuse injury)
• indisposition, due to psychological factors such as worry, or to transient physiological complaints such as fatigue, due to glycogen depletion.
See also adaptive energy; burn out; overtraining; and stress.
Roget's Thesaurus:
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rundown
noun
- A condensation of the essential or main points of something: recapitulation, run-through, sum, summary, summation, summing-up, wrap-up. Informal recap. See words.
adjective
- Extremely tired: bleary, dead, drained, exhausted, fatigued, spent, tired out, wearied, weariful, weary, worn-down, worn-out. Informal beat, bushed, tuckered (out). Slang done in, fagged (out), pooped (out). Idioms: all in, ready to drop. See health/sickness, tired/fresh.
- Falling to ruin: dilapidated, ramshackle, ruinous, tumbledown. See better/worse.
- Showing signs of wear and tear or neglect: bedraggled, broken-down, decaying, decrepit, dilapidated, dingy, down-at-heel, faded, mangy, scrubby, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, sleazy, tattered, tatty, threadbare. Informal tacky2. Slang ratty. Idioms: all the worse for wear, gone topotseed, pastcurehope. See better/worse.
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run-down
adj
Definition: shabby, in bad shape
Antonyms: fresh, good, healthy, ok
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A condition characterized by a decrease in physical performance. It may comprise four distinct causal and modal entities: physical fitness and form affected by factors outside the sport, such as lack of sleep, overtraining, overstraining, which may result in overuse injuries, and indisposition. See also overtraining syndrome, stress.
McGraw-Hill Slang Dictionary:
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rundown
n. a summary bringing someone up to date. Can you give me a rundown on what's happened since noon?
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IN BRIEF: adj. - Having the spring unwound; Worn by hard use.
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noun
noun, dated, US, horse-racing
1: A list of entries and betting odds. Mainlyattrib (1935 — 51).
2:orig US A catalogue of information, facts, etc.; a short description. (1945 —) .
T. Pynchon John Nefastis...brought out his Machine... 'You know how this works?' 'Stanley gave me a kind of rundown' (1966).
noun, dated, US, horse-racing
1: A list of entries and betting odds. Mainly
2:
T. Pynchon John Nefastis...brought out his Machine... 'You know how this works?' 'Stanley gave me a kind of rundown' (1966).
| run-off, run-in, run | |
| runner, running jump, runs |
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categories related to 'rundown'
- Baseball - rundown: act of the fielding team to attempt to put out a runner caught between bases
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This article is about the situation in baseball. For the practice in Scientology, see Rundown (Scientology).
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A rundown, informally known as a pickle, is a situation in the game of baseball that occurs when the baserunner is stranded between two bases and is in jeopardy of being tagged out. When the base runner attempts to advance to the next base, he is cut off by the defensive player who has a live ball and attempts to return to his previous base before being tagged out. As he is doing this, the defenseman throws the ball past the base runner to the previous base, forcing him to reverse directions again. This is repeated until the runner is put out or reaches a base safely. If the runner safely returns to his original base, the defense is not charged with an error.[citation needed] However, if the defense allows the runner to advance to the next base in order (e.g., second base to third base), then the defense is charged with an error[citation needed].
A rundown can be escaped if either a fielder makes a throwing error, the runner manages to get around the fielder without running out of the baseline, or the runner manages to sneak by the fielder without the ball while the other fielder involved has the ball and there is no other fielder involved to cover at the runner's destination base.
The word rundown in sports broadcasting has been used far more frequently than pickle. Pickle is more-so used to describe the children's yard game where two fielders must tag the runner before he or she reaches a base, which is derived from the game of baseball.
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