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.]
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Examples of "race" in Sentences
- Regarding the title race he said: It was night when nobody else played in the Premier League.
- It appears that the red race here, the _race capresse_, is particularly liable to the disease.
- Expansion of segregating F2 mapping populations hybrids were derived from crosses of race 2 (P6497) ×race 7 (P7064), and race 1 (48FPA18) ×race
- Howe took a narrow two point USA Crits lead with 20 laps to go in the race, and he held onto the orange and white jersey come the end of the race.
- Whether or not Roman Abramovich's spending really does put Chelsea back in the title race, it is possiblethey may have the biggest say in where the trophy ends up.
- It is formed from the term race, which prudery permits, and it expresses once and for all that for which the instinct exists -- not the individual at all, but the race which is to come after him.
- The term "race card", to those who understand it correctly, tends to suggest that someone was mistreated for reasons other than race and yet still insists that his/her mistreatment was due to race.
- But the want of general efficient efforts, unobstructed by local laws and deleterious influences, cannot but, in a few years, convince the Boards that the colonization of the tribes West is the best, if not the only hope of prosperity to the race _as a race_.
- Cesc Fábregas's statement mentioned an underlying "respect" for the officials and an all-consuming passion for a club embroiled in the title race, but was less an apology and more an admission that, as he put simply, "so many things are said in the heat of the moment".
- Aryan race to leave behind literary relics of their existence on earth, then I say the Vedic poets are primitive; the Vedic language is primitive; the Vedic religion is primitive, and, taken as a whole, _more primitive than anything else that we are ever likely to recover in the whole history of our race_ ....
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