Nerf vs Running - What's the difference?
nerf | running |
(auto racing) To bump lightly, whether accidentally or purposefully.
(slang) to water down, dumb down or especially weaken, particularly in video games.
Moving or advancing by running.
# Of a horse, having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
successive; one following the other without break or intervention
Flowing; easy; cursive.
Continuous; keeping along step by step.
* Milton
* Hare
(botany) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.
(medicine) Discharging pus.
(informal) consecutively; in a row
The action of the verb to run .
The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason
That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.
The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
As verbs the difference between nerf and running
is that nerf is (auto racing) to bump lightly, whether accidentally or purposefully or nerf can be (slang) to water down, dumb down or especially weaken, particularly in video games while running is .As an adjective running is
moving or advancing by running.As an adverb running is
(informal) consecutively; in a row.As a noun running is
the action of the verb to run .nerf
English
(NERF)Etymology 1
From automobile racing; to bump another car (ca. 1950s?).Verb
(en verb)- A racer will often nerf another as a psychological tactic.
Derived terms
* nerf bar * nerf netEtymology 2
From the trademark NERF (an abbreviation of "non-expanding recreational foam"), a range of toys made of soft foam, ineffective as actual weapons (1969).Verb
(en verb)- The lightning spell was pretty powerful before they nerfed it.
Anagrams
* ----running
English
Adjective
(-)- to be away two days running
- running handwriting
- a running explanation
- a running conquest
- What are art and science if not a running commentary on Nature?
- a running vine
- a running sore
Adverb
(-)- Mom's strawberry jam won the blue ribbon at the Holland County Fair three years running .
Noun
(wikipedia running) (en noun)- His running of the business leaves something to be desired.
- Running is good exercise.
- the first running of a still