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Example sentences for: runon

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After some searching, it can be found in Webster's Third . Rusine is not listed in its alphabetical place, but if you look for it where it should be, you're bound to see the entry for rusine antler , at which rusine is etymologized as being from New Latin rusa + English - ine . If it then occurs to you to look up rusa , you'll find rusine as an undefined runon.
On the other hand, the shared main entry for watershed has twenty-three words in CED but 93 in Cobuild . And the word waterless is a main entry in Cobuild , explained in twenty words, whereas in CED it is naught but a so-called “undefined runon”—merely mentioned, but not explained explicitly, as a sub-entry at water . So CED enters more items than Cobuild , but devotes less space to explaining them.