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race 1 R0003900 (rās)n.1. A group of people identified as distinct from other groups because of supposed physical or genetic traits shared by the group. Most biologists and anthropologists do not recognize race as a biologically valid classification, in part because there is more genetic variation within groups than between them.2. A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution: the Celtic race.3. A genealogical line; a lineage.4. Humans considered as a group.5. Biology a. A usually geographically isolated population of organisms that differs from other populations of the same species in certain heritable traits: an island race of birds.b. A breed or strain, as of domestic animals.6. A distinguishing or characteristic quality, such as the flavor of a wine.adj.1. Of or relating to race; racial: race relations; race quotas.2. Of or relating to forms of popular entertainment made by and largely marketed to African Americans in the early 1900s: race literature; race records.
[Middle French rasse, race, lineage, race, from Old Italian razza, probably from Old French haraz, stud farm for horses : Old French *har-, gray, gray-haired (as in French dialectal (Normandy) harousse, nag, old mare; perhaps in reference to the graying of stud horses with age and from Old Norse hārr, gray-haired, hoaryakin to English hoar) or Old French *har-, hair (perhaps in reference to the fact that stud horses are no longer regularly saddled; akin to French dialectal (Norman) har, hair, in monter á har, to ride on hair, ride bareback, from Old Norse hār, hairakin to English hair) + Old French -az, -as, n. suff. (from Latin -āceus, -aceous).]
race 2 R0003900 (rās)n.1. Sports a. A competition of speed, as in running or riding.b. races A series of such competitions held at a specified time on a regular course: a fan of the dog races.2. An extended competition in which participants struggle like runners to be the winner: the presidential race.3. Steady or rapid onward movement: the race of time.4. a. A strong or swift current of water.b. The channel of such a current.c. An artificial channel built to transport water and use its energy. Also called raceway.5. A groovelike part of a machine in which a moving part slides or rolls.6. See slipstream.v. raced, rac·ing, rac·es v.intr.1. Sports To compete in a contest of speed.2. To move rapidly or at top speed: We raced home. My heart was racing with fear.3. To run too rapidly due to decreased resistance or unnecessary provision of fuel: adjusted the idle to keep the engine from racing.v.tr.1. Sports a. To compete against in a race.b. To cause to compete in a race: She races horses for a living.2. To transport rapidly or at top speed; rush: raced the injured motorist to the hospital.3. To cause (an engine with the gears disengaged, for example) to run swiftly or too swiftly.
[Middle English ras, from Old Norse rās, rush, running; see ers- in Indo-European roots.]races (ˈreɪsɪz) pl n1. (Horse Racing) the races a series of contests of speed between horses (or sometimes greyhounds) over a set course at prearranged times; a race meeting2. (Individual Sports, other than specified) the races a series of contests of speed between horses (or sometimes greyhounds) over a set course at prearranged times; a race meetingTranslations
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| RACES➣Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service | | RACES➣Reactive to Anticipatory Cognitive Embodied Systems (conference) |
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