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a contest of speed; "the race is to the swift"

any competition; "the race for the presidency"

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"

compete in a race; "he is running the Marathon this year"; "let's race and see who gets there first"

cause to move fast or to rush or race; "The psychologist raced the rats through a long maze"

a contest of speed; "the race is to the swift"

any competition; "the race for the presidency"

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"

compete in a race; "he is running the Marathon this year"; "let's race and see who gets there first"

cause to move fast or to rush or race; "The psychologist raced the rats through a long maze"

A game, match, etc., open only to losers in early stages of contests.

To raze.

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 cause to contend in a race; to drive at high speed; as, to race horses.

To run a race with.

A game, match, etc., open only to losers in early stages of contests.

To raze.

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.

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 cause to contend in a race; to drive at high speed; as, to race horses.

To run a race with.

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 of Alderney.

Major living subspecies of man differentiated by genetic and physical characteristics. There are four racial groups: Australoid, Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Negroid.

A strong rapid current of water; also, its channel; as, a mill race; a contest of speed, as in running, swimming, etc.; length of life or career; as, my race is run; breed; a class of beings having similar qualities; as, the human race; a division of human beings; as, the white race; a nation; as, the English race; family line; as, the race of Stuart kings.

To run swiftly; contend in running; to run, as an engine, too fast, because of a lightened load.

To cause to move swiftly in a contest of speed; to drive at great speed; as, to race a horse; to run with, in a speed contest.

Family: the descendants of a common ancestor: a breed or variety: a herd: peculiar flavor or strength, as of wine, showing its kind.

A running: rapid motion: trial of speed: progress: movement of any kind: course of action: a rapid current: a canal to a water-wheel.

To run swiftly: to contend in running.

A breed; descendants; family.

To run swiftly; contend in running.

Trial of speed; swift course; career; canal to a water-wheel.

To move or cause to move swiftly; match or contend in a contest of speed.

A series of descendants from a common ancestry; lineage; pedigree.

A trial of speed.

Movement; career.

A sluice.

The union or aggregate of individuals whose conformation or particular condition differs perceptibly from those of neighbouring varieties. In the human species, several races are designated. See Homo.

n. [French, Italian, German, Latin] The descendant of a common ancestor ; a family, tribe, or nation believed to belong to the same stock:- one of the distinct varieties of the human species, usually classified as five, viz., the Caucasian or white race, to which belong the European nations and those of Western Asia ; the Mongolian or yellow race ; the Ethiopian or negro race ; the American Indian or red race, and the Malayan or brown race ; -the descendants of a particular ancestor, or in a particular line :-lineage ; family ; birth ;-a peculiar breed, as of horses, &c.: - a root, as of ginger ; - a particular strength, taste, or flavour, indicating the root, stock, or soil from which it was produced, as of wine ;-hence, peculiar or distinguishing flavour; gout; smack ;-also, a characteristic quality or disposition.

n. [ Anglo-Saxon, Icelandic] A movement or progression ; a course of action or effort ; process ; - career ; - swift progress ; rapid course or motion ;-act of running in competition or for a prize, as foot-race, yacht-race, &c. ; especially, the running of horses for stakes, cups, &c. ;-a strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or passage for such a current ;-a canal or watercourse leading from a dam to a water-wheel which it drives;--pl. Meetings for the sport of horse-racing or running horses in competition or trial of speed.