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The meaning of the word "Race" in English


Race v. t. : To raze.

Race n. : A root.

Race n. : 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.

Race n. : Company; herd; breed.

Race n. : A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed.

Race n. : 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.

Race n. : Hence, characteristic quality or disposition.

Race n. : A progress; a course; a movement or progression.

Race n. : Esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running.

Race n. : 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.

Race n. : Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.

Race n. : 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.

Race n. : The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race.

Race n. : A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc.

Race v. i. : To run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port.

Race v. i. : 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.

Race v. t. : To cause to contend in a race; to drive at high speed; as, to race horses.

Race v. t. : To run a race with.

Example:
How did the human Race turn into various colors?

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Defination from the web:
race in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Race ... Race (classification of human beings) Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, official ... Race (bearing), the inner and outer rings of a rolling-element bearing ... 

synonyms
  (noun) subspecies
  (noun) slipstream
  (noun) airstream
  (noun) backwash
  (noun) wash
  (noun) raceway
  (noun) canal
  (noun) competition
  (noun) contest
  (noun) flow
  (noun) group
  (noun) grouping
  (noun) taxon
  (noun) taxonomic category
  (noun) taxonomic group
  (verb) rush
  (verb) hotfoot
  (verb) hasten
  (verb) hie
  (verb) speed
  (verb) pelt along
  (verb) rush along
  (verb) cannonball along
  (verb) bucket along
  (verb) belt along
  (verb) run
  (verb) act
  (verb) compete
  (verb) contend
  (verb) displace
  (verb) go
  (verb) locomote
  (verb) move
  (verb) travel
  (verb) vie
antonyms
  (verb) linger
related terms
  (verb) run off
  (verb) speed up


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