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▪ I. re-ˈrun, v.
[re- 5 a.]
To run (over) again; spec. to show (a motion picture) again (also fig.); to subject again to an experimental or computational procedure.
1804Larwood No Gun Boats 8 We must re-run the gantelope of our Bounties and Recruitings. 1859Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) II. 170, I request you, after you have finished, just to re-run over the heads. 1962‘D. Shannon’ Extra Kill vii. 103 There was a picture Fox made... Last week I saw it's being rerun at a neighborhood house. 1967E. Chambers Photolitho-Offset XV. 239 The product cannot be re-run through the machine. 1971J. B. Carroll et al. Word Frequency Bk. p. xxxvii, The discrepancy was caused by technical problems in making final corrections..in the computer tape... Discrepancies in individual subject categories were so small..that it was not considered worthwhile to rerun the distributions. 1973Sci. Amer. Dec. 45/2 Our entire simulation of the Antennae (with n = 350) could be rerun in less than five minutes on any fast modern computer. 1976M. Maguire Scratchproof viii. 115 Re-run it... Slow down the projection speed. 1976E. Maclaren Nature of Belief ii. 16 You can't re-run a piece of history with different variables the way you can repeat a chemistry experiment without the chlorine. 1977Virology LXXVIII. 207/2 The DNA isolated by this procedure was then rerun in a CsCl density gradient.
Hence re-run ppl. a.
1929Amer. Speech IV. 386 The term smoke is comparatively new..and means an inferior grade of whitish, cloudy alcohol, usually re-run alky at that. 1968A. Diment Gt. Spy Race vii. 94 The excuses running through their minds like re-run television shows.
▪ II. re-run, n.
[f. the vb.]
1. A repeat showing of a motion picture; also, the film itself; also transf., of broadcast or printed material. Also fig.
1934in Webster. 1955Times 28 July 9/7 Film costs rather more than ‘live’ television, but it has a great advantage for re-run purposes. 1965Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Nov. 1070/4 Re-runs of old silent films. 1968Guardian 22 Mar. 10/6 Around the World in 80 Days starts a rerun in 70 millimetre at the Coliseum Cinerama Theatre. 1968P. Marlowe Hire me a Hearse ix. 137 It didn't take very long for Hazard to run the spools through again. In the rerun some of it sounded repetitious. 1971Wall St. Jrnl. 22 July 1/5 Liberty magazine, which was around from 1924 until 1950, makes a comeback with reruns of its old articles. 1978G. Vidal Kalki vi. 151 On the wall opposite the window a row of TV monitors showed us..a rerun of I love Lucy. 1979Dædalus Summer 15 The current quarrel..is just the latest rerun of that earlier script.
2. The repeated performance of a computation or computer program. Usu. attrib.
1946J. B. Conant Man. Operation Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator ii. 50 Starting, stopping and rerun instructions. 1958[see generator 4 c]. 1980R. Longbottom Computer Syst. Reliability vii. 105 A further category of rerun time is incurred when it is found that previously created files have been lost... The time to restore files is again application dependent.
3. A repeated occurrence or attempt.
1976H. Wilson Governance of Britain iii. 65 A tendency developed in the 1960s for a defeated minister almost automatically to seek for a re-run at Cabinet. 1977Daily Tel. 17 Mar. 1/1 The Left-wing appeared to be in no mood to have a re-run of last year's rebellion, when the Government was defeated by 28 votes. |