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Race

noun

Any competition.

A contest of speed.

People who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock.

(biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species. Synonym: subspecies.

The flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller. Synonyms: airstream, backwash, slipstream, wash.

A canal for a current of water. Synonym: raceway.

verb

(past & past part. raced; pres. part. racing)

Move fast. Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, rush, rush along, speed, step on it. "The cars raced down the street"

Compete in a race. Synonym: run. "Let's race and see who gets there first"

To work as fast as possible towards a goal, sometimes in competition with others.

Cause to move fast or to rush or race. Synonym: rush.

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"Race" Quotes from Famous Books

... angels confirms my remark that our admirable Hooker was a giant of the race Aristotle 'versus' Plato. Hooker was truly judicious,—the consummate 'synthesis' of understanding and sense. An ample and most ordonnant conceptionist, to the tranquil empyrean of ideas he had not ascended. Of the passages cited from Scripture ...

— The Literary Remains Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Edited By Henry Nelson Coleridge

... of the pride of my race to live as a dependent on my brother's bounty, yet I could not bear the thought of leaving Helen. I was in no situation to marry, and in an undecided state of mind I suffered the days to ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 • Various

... elements in a marked degree which constitutes a noble nature. In all the social relations of life he was kind and affable. In his house he was the affectionate husband and father. He was free from the many vices that others of his race had contracted from their associations with the white people, never using intoxicating beverages to excess. As a warrior he knew no fear, and on the field of battle his feats of personal prowess stamped him as the ...

— Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk • Black Hawk

... these maids of noble birth. Clasps (3) were sewed in lovely wise upon the dress of many a comely maid. She had good cause to rue it, whose bright color did not shine in contrast to her weeds. No kingly race hath now such fair retainers. When now the lovely maids had donned the garments they should wear, there then drew near a mickle band of high-mettled champions. Together with their shields they carried ...

— The Nibelungenlied • Unknown

... probably be a young king. There all the various arts of pleasing, the engaging address, the versatility of manners, the brillant, the graces, will outweigh, and yet outrun all solid knowledge and unpolished merit. Oil yourself, therefore, and be both supple and shining, for that race, if you would be first, or early at the goal. Ladies will most probably too have something to say there; and those who are best with them will probably be best SOMEWHERE ELSE. Labor this great point, ...

— The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield

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