race
IPA: rˈeɪs
noun
- A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective.
- Swift progress; rapid motion; an instance of moving or driving at high speed.
- (electronics, computing) A race condition; a bug or problem that occurs when two or more components attempt to use the same resource at the same time.
- A sequence of events; a progressive movement toward a goal.
- A fast-moving current of water.
- A water channel, especially one built to lead water to or from a point where it is utilised, such as that which powers a millwheel.
- A path that something or someone moves along.
- A guide or channel that a component of a machine moves along:
- (sewing, weaving) A groove on a sewing machine or a loom along which the shuttle moves.
- (engineering) A ring with a groove in which rolling elements (such as balls) ride, forming part of a rolling-element bearing (for example, a ball bearing).
- (gambling) A keno gambling session.
- A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics (see Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race):
- A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.
- A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of common physical characteristics, such as skin color or hair type.
- A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of shared characteristics or qualities, for example social qualities.
- (fantasy, science fiction, mythology) A large group of nonhumans distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.
- A group of organisms distinguished by common characteristics; often an informal infraspecific rank in taxonomy, below species:
- (biology) A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly different characteristics; a mating group.
- (botany) A strain of plant with characteristics causing it to differ from other plants of the same species.
- (animal husbandry) A breed or strain of domesticated animal.
- (mycology, bacteriology) A strain of microorganism, fungi, etc.
- (by extension) A category or kind of thing distinguished by common characteristics.
- (obsolete) Peculiar flavour, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavour.
- (obsolete) Characteristic quality or disposition.
- (obsolete) The sexual activity of conceiving and bearing biological offspring.
- (archaic, uncountable) Ancestry.
- (obsolete) A step in a lineage or succession; a generation.
- (obsolete, uncountable) Progeny, offspring, descendants.
- A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.
- A surname.
verb
- (intransitive) To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).
- (transitive) To compete against in a race (contest).
- (intransitive) To move or drive at high speed; to hurry or speed.
- (intransitive, of a motor) To run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.
- To assign a race to; to perceive as having a (usually specified) race.
- (obsolete) To pass down certain phenotypic traits to offspring.
- Obsolete form of raze. [(transitive) To demolish; to level to the ground.]
Examples of "race" in Sentences
- Horse lurched as it finishes the race.
- The race was the tenth running of the race.
- The gallop is also the gait of the classic race horse.
- The wild horse race begins with untamed horses in the chutes.
- He was involved in the design of the 1850 clipper barque Race Horse.
- The distance of the race was cut by a furlong to its present length in 1988.
- The wild bullock race is conducted in a similar manner to the wild horse race.