Definitions for RACE

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RACE race

Spelling: [reys]

IPA: /reɪs/

Race is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in RACE (acer).

Definitions for RACE

noun

1. a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
2. races, a series of races, usually of horses or dogs, run at a set time over a regular course:
3. any contest or competition, especially to achieve superiority:
4. urgent need, responsibility, effort, etc., as when time is short or a solution is imperative:
5. onward movement; an onward or regular course.
6. the course of time.
7. the course of life or a part of life.
8. Geology. a strong or rapid current of water, as in the sea or a river. the channel or bed of such a current or of any stream.
9. an artificial channel leading water to or from a place where its energy is utilized.
10. the current of water in such a channel.
11. Also called raceway. Machinery. a channel, groove, or the like, for sliding or rolling a part or parts, as the balls of a ball bearing.
12. Textiles. the float between adjacent rows of pile. race plate.
13. a group of persons related by common descent or heredity.
14. a population so related.
15. Anthropology. (no longer in technical use) any of the traditional divisions of humankind, the commonest being the Caucasian, Mongoloid, and Negro, characterized by supposedly distinctive and universal physical characteristics. an arbitrary classification of modern humans, sometimes, especially formerly, based on any or a combination of various physical characteristics, as skin color, facial form, or eye shape, and now frequently based on such genetic markers as blood groups. a socially constructed category of identification based on physical characteristics, ancestry, historical affiliation, or shared culture: a human population partially isolated reproductively from other populations, whose members share a greater degree of physical and genetic similarity with one another than with other humans.
16. a group of tribes or peoples forming an ethnic lineage:
17. any people united by common history, language, cultural traits, etc.:
18. the human race or family; humankind:
19. Zoology. a variety; subspecies.
20. a natural kind of living creature:
21. any group, class, or kind, especially of persons:
22. the characteristic taste or flavor of wine.
23. the root of the ginger plant; a gingerroot.
24. Cape, a cape at the SE extremity of Newfoundland.

adjective

1. of or relating to the races of humankind.

verb (used with object)

1. to run a race against; try to beat in a contest of speed:
2. to enter (a horse, car, track team, or the like) in a race or races.
3. to cause to run, move, or go at high speed:

verb (used without object)

1. to engage in a contest of speed; run a race.
2. to run horses or dogs in races; engage in or practice horse racing or dog racing.
3. to run, move, or go swiftly.
4. (of an engine, wheel, etc.) to run with undue or uncontrolled speed when the load is diminished without corresponding diminution of fuel, force, etc.

Origin of RACE

1250-1300; (noun) Middle English ras(e) Old Norse rās a running, race (cognate with Old English rǣs a running); (v.) Middle English rasen, derivative of the noun (compare Old Norse rasa to ru

Examples for RACE

Through the teaching of Moses he was to become the sole Master of the Jewish race.

How far has Congress really evolved on race when in 50 years it has gone from one black senator to two?

Think back to the Bush-Kerry race of 2004, the Thrilla in Vanilla.

If Congress accurately reflected our nation on the basis of race, about 63 percent would be white, not 80 percent.

He then went on to recount her labors and sacrifices in behalf of her race.

The morals of one race are not those of another even in the same century.

I regard her as, on the whole, the most extraordinary person of her race I have ever met.

With Ebola still raging in West Africa, the race to find a vaccine is heating up.

Deep were my musings, as to the race and attributes of that ethereal being.

On Thursday, Garcetti ruled himself out of the race to succeed Boxer.