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Definition of 'race'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

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.

15. (v.t.) race
to run a race against.

16.  race
to enter (a horse, car, etc.) in a race.

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.

23.  race
the human race or family; humankind.

24.  race
Zool. a variety; subspecies.

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"

Definition of 'race'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) race
a competition of speed
a running race; to win/lose a race

2.  race
the races
an event at which horses or dogs run against each other

3.  race
a competition to get the best position or most power
the race for president

4.  race
a group of people defined by the color of their skin, shape of their features, etc.
race and gender; people of many races

5.  race
a race against time
a situation in which sth must be done quickly
The rescue was a race against time.

6. (verb) race
to take part in a race
Come on, I'll race you to that post.

7.  race
to go somewhere, move, or do sth quickly
We watched her racing along the hight street.; He raced through his speech.

8.  race
to take sb somewhere quickly
They raced him into the operating theater.

Definition of 'race'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) race
a root

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

3. (noun) race
company; herd; 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

16. (verb) race
to run too fast at times, as a marine engine or screw, when the screw is lifted out of water by the action of a heavy sea

17. (verb) race
to cause to contend in a race; to drive at high speed; as, to race horses

18. (verb) race
to run a race with

Translation of 'race'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a competition to find who or which is the fastest a horse 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
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