Race
Definition of Race
Pronunciation: rāst | v. t. | 1. | To raze. | | n. | 1. | A root. | | 1. | | | 1. | 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. | | 2. | Company; herd; breed. | | 3. | (Bot.) A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed. | | 4. | 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.Is it [the wine] of the right race ? - Massinger. | | 5. | Hence, characteristic quality or disposition. | | 1. | A progress; a course; a movement or progression. | | 2. | Esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running. | | 3. | 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.The race is not to the swift. - Eccl. ix. 11. | | 4. | Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life. | | 5. | 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. | | 6. | The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race. | | 7. | (Mach.) A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc. | | v. i. | 1. | To run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port. | | 2. | (Steam Mach.) 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. | | v. t. | 1. | To cause to contend in a race; to drive at high speed; as, to race horses. | | 2. | To run a race with. |
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