race

Plural: races

Noun

• any competition
  • "the race for the presidency"
• a contest of speed
  • "the race is to the swift"
• 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"
• (biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species
• the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
• a canal for a current of water
• 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.
• 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:
• A groove on a sewing machine or a loom along which the shuttle moves.
• A guide or channel that a component of a machine moves along:
• 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).
• 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 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 common physical characteristics, such as skin color or hair type.
• 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 shared characteristics or qualities, for example social qualities.
• 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 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
• A group of organisms distinguished by common characteristics; often an informal infraspecific rank in taxonomy, below species:
• A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly different characteristics; a mating group.
• A group of organisms distinguished by common characteristics; often an informal infraspecific rank in taxonomy, below species:
• A strain of plant with characteristics causing it to differ from other plants of the same species.
• A group of organisms distinguished by common characteristics; often an informal infraspecific rank in taxonomy, below species:
• A breed or strain of domesticated animal.
• A group of organisms distinguished by common characteristics; often an informal infraspecific rank in taxonomy, below species:
• A strain of microorganism, fungi, etc.
• A category or kind of thing distinguished by common characteristics.
• 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.
• Characteristic quality or disposition.
• The sexual activity of conceiving and bearing biological offspring.
• Ancestry, lineage.
• A step in a lineage or succession; a generation.
• Progeny, offspring, descendants.
• A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.

Verb

Verb Forms: raced, racing, races

• To compete in a contest of speed.
• move fast
  • "The cars raced down the street"
• compete in a race
  • "let's race and see who gets there first"
• to work as fast as possible towards a goal, sometimes in competition with others
• cause to move fast or to rush or race
  • "The psychologist raced the rats through a long maze"
• To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).
• To compete against in a race (contest).
• To move or drive at high speed; to hurry or speed.
• To run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.
• To assign a race to; to perceive as having a (usually specified) race.
• To pass down certain phenotypic traits to offspring.
• To sharpen (a grindstone) by scraping its surface.
• Alternative spelling of raze.
• To cut, scratch, or tear (someone or something) with a sharp object; to lacerate, to slash; specifically (nautical), to make marks on (something, such as a piece of wood) using a race knife.
• Alternative spelling of raze.
• To physically destroy; to obliterate:
• To level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.
• Alternative spelling of raze.
• To physically destroy; to obliterate:
• To make (a path or way) through something by cutting or tearing.
• Alternative spelling of raze.
• To physically destroy; to obliterate:
• To make a cut or slash in (an item of clothing or footwear) as a decoration.
• Alternative spelling of raze.
• To erase; to delete; to edit:
• To alter (a document) by erasing parts of it.
• Alternative spelling of raze.
• To erase; to delete; to edit:
• To erase (a record, text, etc.), originally by scraping; to rub out, to scratch out.
• Alternative spelling of raze.
• To erase; to delete; to edit:
• To completely remove (someone or something), especially from a place, a situation, etc.; also, to remove from existence; to destroy, to obliterate.
• To pluck or snatch (something); also, to pull (something).

Examples

• A treaty was concluded between the race of elves and the race of men.
• As soon as it was time to go home, he raced for the door.
• Her heart was racing as she peered into the dimly lit room.
• I raced him to the car, but he was there first, so he got to ride shotgun.
• In a close Scrabble game, players often RACE to empty their rack.
• Race was a significant issue during apartheid in South Africa.
• Several horses ran in a horse race: the first one to reach the finishing post won.
• The advent of the Internet has brought about a new race of entrepreneur.
• The Canadian race is one of the most vigorous on the globe.
• The drivers were racing around the track.
• The horse raced past the barn fell.
• The Native Americans colonized the New World in several waves from Asia, and thus they are considered part of the same Mongoloid race.
• The race around the park was won by Johnny, who ran faster than the others.
• The race to cure cancer
• We had a race to see who could finish the book the quickest.

Synonyms

airstream, backwash, belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, raceway, run, rush, rush along, slipstream, speed, step on it, subspecies, wash, aerosolize, age group, annihilate, array, atomize, attribute, benothing, bewreck, blot out, blotto, breed, breed true, breeding, career, carve, category, chain, characteristic, chive, clan, class, cohort, come true, consecution, course, cut, dash, decompose, demolish, designation, desolate, destroy, devastate, diffuse, disintegrate, disperse, dissolve, distinction, distinctiveness, division, ecospecies, ecotype, efface, eliminate, eradicate, erase, ethnic group, ethnicity, ethnie, expunct, expunge, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, extraction, family, feature, fuck, genre, get, hallmark, harry, house, idiosyncrasy, ilk, incide, incise, issue, jazz, kind, lacerate, lay waste, level, likes, line, lineage, liquidate, nationality, nuke, obliterate, oblivionize, parameter, pathotype, pathovar, pedigree, people, procedure, process, procreation, progenation, progress, propagation, property, pull down, pulverize, quality, quirk, race, race condition, race hazard, ravage, raze, remove, reproduction, rhizome, rip, rootstalk, rubric, ruin, running, seed, sequence, series, set, share, shift, shuttle race, slash, slive, snead, snick, snithe, sort, stamp out, stirp, strain, string, succession, total, touch, train, trait, tribe, type, typicity, unbreed, unexist, unmake, uproot, variety, waste, whatness, wipe off, wipe out, wreck, zip, zoom

Antonyms

linger

Related Words

racial, racism, racist