Meaning of 'race' (Webster Dictionary)
- A root.
- 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.
- Company; herd; breed.
- A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated
by seed.
- 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.
- Hence, characteristic quality or disposition.
- A progress; a course; a movement or progression.
- Esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running.
- 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.
- Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged;
hence, career; course of life.
- 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.
- The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel
in which it flows; a mill race.
- A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and
forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc.
- To run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals
raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port.
- 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.
- To raze.
- To cause to contend in a race; to drive at high speed; as,
to race horses.
- To run a race with.
Meaning of 'race' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock
Example in sentence:- some biologists doubt that there are important genetic differences between races of human beings
Meaning (2):
- any competition
Example in sentence:- the race for the presidency
Meaning (3):
- a contest of speed
Meaning (4):
- compete in a race
Example in sentence:- he is running the Marathon this year;
- let's race and see who gets there first
Meaning (5):
- move hurridly
Example in sentence:- He rushed down the hall to receive his guests;
- The cars raced down the street
Meaning (6):
- cause to move fast or to rush or race
Example in sentence:- The psychologist raced the rats through a long maze
Meaning (7):
- to work as fast as possible towards a goal, sometimes in competition with others
Example in sentence:- We are racing to find a cure for AIDS
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