Sekirov Dictionary

race

/ɹeɪs/

noun29

  1. a competition in which the winner is the first to get to the end
  2. A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics (see Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race).
  3. A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.
  4. A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of common physical characteristics, such as skin color or hair type.
  5. A large group of nonhumans distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.
  6. A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of shared characteristics or qualities, for example social qualities.
  7. A category or kind of thing distinguished by common characteristics.
  8. A group of organisms distinguished by common characteristics; often an informal infraspecific rank in taxonomy, below species
  9. A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly different characteristics; a mating group.
  10. A strain of plant with characteristics causing it to differ from other plants of the same species.
  11. A breed or strain of domesticated animal.
  12. A strain of microorganism, fungi, etc.
  13. A sequence of events; a progressive movement toward a goal.
  14. Swift progress; rapid motion; an instance of moving or driving at high speed.
  15. A race condition; a bug or problem that occurs when two or more components attempt to use the same resource at the same time.
  16. 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.
  17. A path that something or someone moves along.
  18. A guide or channel that a component of a machine moves along.
  19. A groove on a sewing machine or a loom along which the shuttle moves.
  20. 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).
  21. A fast-moving current of water.
  22. A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.
  23. A keno gambling session.
  24. (no longer used) 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.
  25. (no longer used) Characteristic quality or disposition.
  26. (no longer used) Ancestry, lineage.
  27. (no longer used) Progeny, offspring, descendants.
  28. (no longer used) A step in a lineage or succession; a generation.
  29. (no longer used) The sexual activity of conceiving and bearing biological offspring.

verb18

  1. To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).
  2. To compete against in a race (contest).
  3. To move or drive at high speed; to hurry or speed.
  4. To run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.
  5. To assign a race to; to perceive as having a (usually specified) race.
  6. 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.
  7. Alternative spelling of raze.
  8. (no longer used, rare) To make (a path or way) through something by cutting or tearing.
  9. (no longer used) To make a cut or slash in (an item of clothing or footwear) as a decoration.
  10. (no longer used) To erase; to delete; to edit.
  11. (no longer used) To alter (a document) by erasing parts of it.
  12. (no longer used) To erase (a record, text, etc.), originally by scraping; to rub out, to scratch out.
  13. (figurative, no longer used) To completely remove (someone or something), especially from a place, a situation, etc.; also, to remove from existence; to destroy, to obliterate.
  14. (no longer used) To physically destroy; to obliterate.
  15. (no longer used) To level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.
  16. (no longer used) To sharpen (a grindstone) by scraping its surface.
  17. (no longer used) To pluck or snatch (something); also, to pull (something).
  18. (no longer used) To pass down certain phenotypic traits to offspring.
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Phrases with race

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