Dictionary Definition
race
Noun
1 any competition; "the race for the
presidency"
2 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"
3 a contest of speed; "the race is to the
swift"
4 the flow of air that is driven backwards by an
aircraft propeller [syn: slipstream, airstream, backwash, wash]
5 (biology) a taxonomic group that is a division
of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical
isolation within a species [syn: subspecies]
6 a canal for a current of water [syn: raceway]
Verb
1 step on it; "He rushed down the hall to receive
his guests"; "The cars raced down the street" [syn: rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, pelt along,
rush
along, cannonball
along, bucket
along, belt along]
[ant: linger]
2 compete in a race; "he is running the Marathon
this year"; "let's race and see who gets there first" [syn:
run]
3 to work as fast as possible towards a goal,
sometimes in competition with others; "We are racing to find a cure
for AIDS"
4 cause to move fast or to rush or race; "The
psychologist raced the rats through a long maze" [syn: rush]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- , /reɪs/, /reIs/
-
- Rhymes with: -eɪs
Etymology 1
From race, from razza, possibly from sc=Arab.Noun
- A large group of people distinguished from others on
the basis of a common heritage.
- The Anglo-Saxon race
- A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis
of common, genetically linked, physical characteristics, such as
skin color or hair type.
- Race was a significant issue during apartheid in South Africa.
- In the context of "controversial usage": One of the categories
from the many subcategorizations of the human species. See
Wikipedia's article on historical
definitions of race.
- The Native Americans colonized the New World in several waves from Asia, and thus they are part of the same Mongoloid race.
- A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly different characteristics; informal for subspecies.
- A breed or strain of domesticated animal.
- A category or species of something that has emerged or evolved
from an older one (with an implied parallel to animal breeding or evolutionary
science).
- The advent of the Internet has brought about a new race of
entrepreneur.
- Recent developments in artificial intelligence has brought about a new race of robots that can perform household chores without supervision.
- The advent of the Internet has brought about a new race of
entrepreneur.
Synonyms
Translations
a large group of people set apart from others on
the basis of a common heritage
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 种 (zhǒng), 种族 (zhǒng zú)
- Czech: rasa
- Dutch: ras, afkomst
- trreq Esperanto
- Finnish: rotu
- trreq French
- German: Geschlecht, Rasse
- Hebrew: גזע ('geza')
- Hungarian: faj
- Italian: razza
- Japanese: 人種 ()
- Korean: 인종 (injong)
- Kurdish: نهتهوه
- Latin: genus, gens
- trreq Old English
- Russian: раса
- Slovene: rasa
- Spanish: raza
- Swedish: ras
- trreq Turkish
a large group of people set apart from others on
the basis of common, genetically-linked, physical characteristics
- Dutch: ras
- Finnish: rotu
- Italian: razza
- Japanese: 人種 ()
- Kurdish:
- Slovene: rasa
- Swedish: ras
one of the categories from the many
subcategorizations of the human species
- Dutch: ras, afkomst
- Italian: razza
- Slovene: rasa
- Swedish: ras
a population geographically separated from
others of its species that develops significantly different
characteristics; informal for subspecies
- Swedish: ras
a breed or strain of domesticated animal
- Dutch: ras
- Finnish: rotu
a category or species of something that has
emerged or evolved from an older one
- Dutch: soort
Etymology 2
from ras, akin to Old English ræs.Noun
- A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective. Several horses run in a horse race, and the first one to reach the finishing post wins; in an arms race several countries each try to acquire more powerful weapons than any other.
- A progressive movement toward a goal.
- A fast moving current of water.
- A rhizome (esp. of ginger).
- The bushings of a rolling element bearing which contacts the rolling elements.
Translations
contest
- Arabic:
- Bosnian: trka
- Chinese: 競賽, 竞赛 (jìng sài)
- Croatian: trka
- Czech: závod
- Dutch: wedloop
- Finnish: kilpailu, kilpa
- French: course
- German: Rennen
- Hungarian: verseny
- Italian: corsa
- Japanese: 競争 ()
- Korean: 경주 (gyeongju)
- Portuguese: corrida
- Russian: гонки (gónki) f|p
- Serbian:
- Slovene: dirka
- Spanish: carrera
- Swedish: kapplöpning
a progressive movement toward a goal
- Japanese: 進行 ()
a rhizome
- Japanese: 地下茎 ()
- Spanish: raíz
the bushings of a rolling element
Translations to be checked
Translations to be checked
- Breton: redadeg (1), red (3), gouenn (5)
- Chinese: 比赛 (bǐsài), 竞赛 (jìngsài), 竞争 (jìngzhēng); 人类 (rénlèi), 种族 (zhǒngzú), 种 (zhǒng), 类 (lèi)
- Dutch: wedstrijd (1), race (1), wedloop (1), ras (5)
- French: race (5)
- German: Rennen (1, 2), Rasse (4, 5)
- Hungarian: verseny
- Ido: raso
- Indonesian: lomba (1), pacuan (1), laju (2,3), ras (4)
- Interlingua: cursa (1, 2); currente, torrente (3); racia (4, 5)
- Irish: clann (4)
- Korean: 시합 (sihap)
- Polish: wyścig (1, 2), rasa (3, 4)
- Portuguese: corrida (1,2); correnteza , torrente (3); raça (4, 5)
- Romanian: cursă, concurs (1)
- Spanish: concurso (1), carrera (2), corriente (3), raza (4, 5), raíz (7)
- Russian: гонка (1, 2), раса (4, 5)
Verb
- To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).
- To move or drive at high speed.
- 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.
- As soon as it was time to go home, he raced for the door.
- Of a motor, to run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.
Translations
to take part in a race
- Breton: kemer perzh en ur redadeg
- Finnish: kilpailla, kisailla
- Indonesian: lomba, berpacu
- Interlingua: currer
- Italian: correre
- Japanese: 競う (), 競争する ()
- Portuguese: correr
- Slovene: dirkati
to move or drive at high speed
of a motor, to run rapidly when not engaged to a
transmission
Dutch
Pronunciation
-
- /res/|lang=nl
Etymology
From raceNoun
de- Speed contest, race
Verb
race- first person singular of racen
- imperative of racen
- defn Dutch
French
Etymology
From razza, possibly from sc=Arab.Pronunciation
- /ʀas/, /Ras/
Noun
fr-noun fSynonyms
Related terms
Extensive Definition
Race may refer to:
- Racing
competitions
- The Race (yachting race), or La course du millénaire, a no-rules round-the-world sailing event
- Race (biology), classification of flora and fauna
- Race (classification of human beings)
- Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, official definitions of "race" used by the US Census Bureau
- Race and genetics, notion of racial classifications based on genetics.
- Historical definitions of race
- The inner and outer rings of a ball bearing are called races.
- RACE in molecular biology "Rapid Amplification of cDna Ends"
- Eleanor Race, a field hockey player from the United States
- Harley Race, an American wrestler
- Hugo Race, an Australian rock musician and record producer
- John Abner Race, an American politician
- John Burton Race, a chef
- Reg Race, a British Labour party politician
- "The Race" (Seinfeld episode), an episode of the TV series Seinfeld
- "The Race" (Joe 90 episode), the 19th episode of Joe 90
- The Race (TV series), a Sky One TV series
- Race (film), a 2008 Bollywood film
- The Race (band), a UK-based indie rock band
- The Race (Yello song), a song by Yello
- Race (fantasy), types of sentient creatures in fantasy
- The Race (Worldwar), a fictional alien race of invaders in the Worldwar and Colonization novels of Harry Turtledove
- Colonel Race, a character in several novels by Agatha Christie
- RACE - The Official WTCC Game, PC simulation of World Touring Cars Championship
See also
- RACE, disambiguation
race in Spanish: Raza (desambiguación)
race in Hungarian: Néger
race in Dutch: Ras
race in Uzbek: Irq
race in Simple English: Race
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Le Mans, accelerate, adolescent
stream, affiliation,
affluence, afflux, affluxion, air race, animal
kingdom, apparentation, aqueduct, arroyo, automobile race, beck, bed, bicycle race, birth, blood, bloodline, boat race,
boat-race, boil, bolt, bourn, bout, bracket, braided stream,
branch, brand, breed, brood, brook, brooklet, bundle, burn, burst, burst of speed, bustle, canal, canter, career, cast, caste, category, channel, character, charge, chase, chute, clan, class, color, common ancestry, community, compete with,
competition,
concourse, confluence, conflux, consanguinity, contention, contest, contest of speed,
course, crack on,
creek, creek bed, crick, cross-country race,
crosscurrent,
culture, culvert, current, dart, dash, dash off, dash on, dead run,
decathlon, defluxion, deme, denomination, derby, derivation, descent, description, designation, direct line,
distaff side, division,
dog race, dogtrot,
donga, double-header,
double-time, doubles,
downflow, downpour, drag race, drift, driftage, drive, dry bed, endurance race,
estate, ethnic group,
event, extraction, family, feather, female line, festinate, filiation, flank speed,
flat-out speed, fling,
flow, flowing, flowing stream,
fluency, flume, flurry, flutter, fluviation, flux, fly, folk, footrace, forced draft,
form, foursome, fresh, freshet, full gallop, gain
ground, gallop, game, games of chance, genre, gens, genus, get going, get moving,
gill, go, grade, grain, group, grouping, gulch, gully, gullyhole, gush, hand gallop, hare, haste, hasten, head, heading, headlong rush, headrace, heat, heavy right foot,
helter-skelter, hie, high
lope, hop to it, horse-race, house, hump, hump it, hurdle race,
hurry, hurry on, hurry
through, hurry up, hurry-scurry, hurtle, hustle, ilk, inflow, irrigation ditch, jog
trot, kidney, kill, kin, kind, kindred, label, lap, lash, lazy stream, leap, level, line, line of descent, lineage, lope, lose no time, lot, make, make haste, male line,
manner, marathon, marathon race,
mark, match, match race, matriclan, maximum speed,
meandering stream, meet,
midchannel, midstream, mill run, millrace, millstream, mold, motorcycle race, move
quickly, moving road, nation, nationality, nature, navigable river, nullah, number, obstacle race, onrush, onward course, open the
throttle, open throttle, order, outflow, patriclan, pentathlon, people, persuasion, phratry, phyle, phylum, pick up speed, pigeonhole, plant kingdom,
play, play-off, plunge, position, post, potato race, predicament, press on, push
on, put on, put on steam, quicken, race with, racecourse, racing stream,
rally, rank, rating, regatta, relay, relay race, rev, rip, rivalry, river, river bed, riverway, rivulet, road race, rubric, run, run a race, rundle, runlet, runnel, runoff, rush, rush through, sack race,
scamper, scoot, scour, scramble, scud, scurry, scuttle, section, seed, sept, set, shape, shoot, side, sike, singles, skedaddle, sluice, society, sort, spate, spear side, species, speech community,
speed, speed up, speedway
race, spill stream, spillbox, spillway, spindle side,
sport, sprint, sprint race, spurt, stamp, station, status, stem, step lively, step on it, step
up, stirps, stock, stock-car race, strain, stratum, stream, stream action, stream
bed, streamlet,
streamway, stripe, style, subdivision, subgroup, suborder, subterranean river,
succession, surge, swash, swash channel, sword side,
tailrace, tear, the like of, the likes of,
the turf, three-legged race, threesome, tide, title, torch race, totem, track, track race, trend, tribe, trot, twosome, type, undercurrent, undertow, variety, wadi, walk, water carrier, water channel,
water flow, water furrow, water gap, water gate, watercourse, waterway, waterworks, wide-open speed,
yacht race, zip