1. (n.)race a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
2. race races, a series of races, run at a set time over a regular course.
3. race any contest or competition, esp. to achieve superiority: an arms race.
4. race an urgent effort, as when a solution is imperative: a race to find a vaccine.
5. race onward movement; an onward or regular course.
6. race the course of time or life.
7. race a strong or rapid current of water, as in the sea or a river.
8. race the channel or bed of such a current or of any stream.
9. race an artificial channel leading water to or from a place where its energy is utilized.
10. race a channel, groove, or the like, for sliding or rolling a part or parts, as the balls of a ball bearing.
11. (v.i.)race to engage in a contest of speed; run a race.
12. race to run horses or dogs in races.
13. race to run, move, or go swiftly.
14. race (of an engine, wheel, etc.) to run with undue or uncontrolled speed when the load is diminished without corresponding diminution of fuel, force, etc.
17. race to cause to run, move, or go at high speed: to race a motor.
18. (n.)race a group of persons related by common descent or heredity.
19. race Anthropol.
20. race a classification of modern humans, sometimes, esp. formerly, based on an arbitrary selection of physical characteristics, as skin color, facial form, or eye shape, and now frequently based on such genetic markers as blood groups.
21. race a human population partially isolated reproductively from other populations, whose members share a greater degree of physical and genetic similarity with one another than with other humans.
22. race any people united by common history, language, cultural traits, etc.: the Dutch race.
25. race any group, class, or kind, esp. of persons.
26. race the characteristic taste or flavor of wine.
27. (n.)Race Cape, a cape at the SE extremity of Newfoundland.
Definition of 'RACE'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)race any competition "the race for the presidency"
2. (noun)race a contest of speed "the race is to the swift"
3. (noun)race people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock "some biologists doubt that there are important genetic differences between races of human beings"
4. (noun)subspecies, race (biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species
5. (noun)slipstream, airstream, race, backwash, wash the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
6. (verb)raceway, race a canal for a current of water
7. (verb)rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along, step on it move fast "He rushed down the hall to receive his guests"; "The cars raced down the street"
8. (verb)race, run compete in a race "he is running the Marathon this year"; "let's race and see who gets there first"
9. (verb)race to work as fast as possible towards a goal, sometimes in competition with others "We are racing to find a cure for AIDS"
10. (verb)race, rush cause to move fast or to rush or race "The psychologist raced the rats through a long maze"
2. (noun)RACE the descendants of a common ancestor; a family, tribe, people, or nation, believed or presumed to belong to the same stock; a lineage; a breed
4. (noun)RACE a variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed
5. (noun)RACE peculiar flavor, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavor; smack
6. (noun)RACE hence, characteristic quality or disposition
7. (noun)RACE a progress; a course; a movement or progression
8. (noun)RACE esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running
9. (noun)RACE hence: The act or process of running in competition; a contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding, driving, skating, rowing, sailing; in the plural, usually, a meeting for contests in the running of horses; as, he attended the races
10. (noun)RACE competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life
11. (noun)RACE a strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or passage for such a current; a powerful current or heavy sea, sometimes produced by the meeting of two tides; as, the Portland Race; the Race of Alderney
12. (noun)RACE the current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race
13. (noun)RACE a channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc
14. (verb)RACE to raze
15. (verb)RACE to run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port
Definitions of RACE 
Afrikaans: wedren
Arabic: سِباق
Bulgarian: надбягване
Brazilian: corrida
Czech: závod, dostih
German: das Rennen
Danish: væddeløb; -væddeløb
Greek: αγώνας δρόμου, κούρσα
Spanish: carrera
Estonian: võidujooks, võidusõit
Farsi: مسابقه
Finnish: kilpailu
French: course
Hebrew: מֵרוֹץ
Hindi: तेज चलने की प्रतियोगिता
Croatian: trka, utrkivanje
Hungarian: verseny
Indonesian: pacuan
Icelandic: keppni, kapphlaup
Italian: corsa, gara
Japanese: 競走
Korean: 경주
Lithuanian: lenktynės, varžybos
Latvian: ātrumsacīkstes
Malay: perlumbaan
Dutch: wedren
Norwegian: (vedde-/kapp)løp, renn
Polish: wyścig
Persian: مسابقه
Pashto: سیالی،مسابقه
Portuguese: corrida
Romanian: cursă
Russian: гонки
Slovak: preteky; dostihy
Slovenian: dirka
Serbian: trka
Swedish: kapplöpning, hastighetstä
Thai: การแข่งขัน
Turkish: yarış, koşu
Taiwanese: 賽跑
Ukrainian: змагання на швидкість
Urdu: دوڑ کا مقابلہ
Vietnamese: cuộc đua
Chinese: 赛跑
