Run into a stone wall
Also, run into a brick wall. Encounter an insurmountable barrier to progress, as in We tried to get faster approval from the town and ran into a stone wall, or For Allan, learning a foreign language amounted to running into a brick wall.
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- Run into the ground
run into the ground run into the ground 1. Pursue a topic until it has been thoroughly discussed or exhausted, as in They’ve run the abortion issue into the ground. 2. Ruin or destroy, as in During her brief time as chief executive Marjorie just about ran the company into the ground. Both usages allude […]
- Run its course
Proceed to its logical or natural conclusion, as in The doctor said the cold would probably run its course within a week. This idiom employs course in the sense of “an onward movement in a particular path.” [ Second half of 1500s ]
- Runjeet Singh
[ruhn-jit sing] /ˈrʌn dʒɪt ˈsɪŋ/ noun 1. Ranjit Singh.
- Run-length encoding
A kind of compression algorithm which replaces sequences (“runs”) of consecutive repeated characters (or other units of data) with a single character and the length of the run. This can either be applied to all input characters, including runs of length one, or a special character can be used to introduce a run-length encoded group. […]
- Run length limited
storage (RLL) The most popular scheme for encoding data on magnetic disks. RLL packs up to 50% more data on a disk than MFM. IBM invented RLL encoding and used it in mainframe disk drives. During the late 1980s, PC hard disks began using RLL. Today, virtually every drive on the market uses some form […]