race
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁s-der.
Proto-Germanic *rēsōder.
Proto-West Germanic *rās
Old English rǣs
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Proto-Germanic *rēsō
Old Norse rásbor.
Middle English race
English race
From Middle English race, partially from Old English rǣs (“a race, swift or violent running, rush, onset”), from Proto-West Germanic *rās; and partially from Old Norse rás (“a running, race”); both from Proto-Germanic *rēsō (“a course”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁s- (“to flow, rush”). Cognate with Middle Low German râs ("a strong current"; whence German Low German Raas (“mad rush, rage, fury”)), Dutch ras (“a strong whirling current”), Danish ræs, Norwegian and Swedish ras, Norwegian rås.
Inflected forms:
form: races
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: races
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: racing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: raced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: raced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Several horses ran in a horse race: the first one to reach the finishing post won.
The race to cure cancer
The race around the park was won by Johnny, who ran faster than the others.
We had a race to see who could finish the book the quickest.
I returned, and saw vnder the Sunne, That the race is not to the swift, nor the battell to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of vnderstanding, nor yet fauour to men of skil; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
"Behold that rival here! / "The race by vigour, not by vaunts is won; / "So take the hindmost, Hell."—He said, and run.
After days of intensifying pressure from runners, politicians and the general public to call off the New York City Marathon in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, city officials and the event’s organizers decided Friday afternoon to cancel the race.
gloss: Swift progress; rapid motion; an instance of moving or driving at high speed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The flight of many birds is swifter than the race of any beasts.
Hence the rapid race / Of light, and lustre from th' effusive sun
And above all, it is an age of activity and enterprise, an age of new discoveries and new deviltries, an age of magnetic telegraphs and Mississippi bonds, and it would be indeed odd if, in the swift race of progress, the rogue did not keep his natural station in the van of the movement.
gloss: A race condition; a bug or problem that occurs when two or more components attempt to use the same resource at the same time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Many problems of oscillations and races are solved by this arrangement.
Because a race by definition depends on the timing being just wrong, you could test your program any number of times, never observe any misbehavior, and still have a user run into the problem.¶ This occurrence is not just a theoretical possibility: Real programs have race bugs and real users have encountered them, sometimes with consequences that have literally been fatal.
As the name implies, a race condition means that two processes are competing within the same time interval, and the race affects the integrity or correctness of the computing tasks.
gloss: A sequence of events; a progressive movement toward a goal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A race of wicked acts / Shall flow out of my anger, and o’erspread / The world’s wide face[.]
An offensive war is made, which is unjust in the aggressor; the prosecution and race of the war carrieth the defendant to invade the ancient patrimony of the first aggressor, who is now turned defendant; shall he sit down, and not put himself in defence?
gloss: A fast-moving current of water.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Here are in these seas two dangerous races, the one called St. Alban's, the other Portland Race.
The existing analysis and program for the propeller-rudder interaction has been updated incorporating all the improvements concerned with the propeller loading distribution, including that associated with the fact that the rudder is immersed in the race of the propeller.
This is an area of spectacular tidal races, rips, swirls, boils, whirlpools, overfalls, currents, and countercurrents. Scylla and Charybdis pale by comparison with the great maelstroms where the sea is trapped between Vancouver Island and the Canadian mainland.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Evidently the future manufacturing development depends upon the hydraulic canal, so far as existing works are concerned, rather than upon the two races, which can never be enlarged to embrace a comprehensive improvement of the river, while the capabilities at the hydraulic basin are unrivaled. So far as can be learned there is no expectation of ever increasing materially the capacity of the races.
Any miners intending to divert and use water for mining or general purposes, or to cut a race or construct dams or reservoirs in connection therewith, shall give notice in writing thereof to the Warden […]
Water for irrigation is stored in the high country behind the Upper Manorburn Dam. Two parallel races at different levels run along the west side of the valley and one race flowing along the east side is supplemented by water stored at the Poolburn Dam.
gloss: A path that something or someone moves along.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My race of glory run, and race of ſhame,
There were all the marked passages, which had thrilled his soul so often,—words of patriarchs and seers, poets and sages, who from early time had spoken courage to man,—voices from the great cloud of witnesses who ever surround us in the race of life.
Don't let fear be a factor for you as the finish line of harvest calls out to you to join the race of eternity. Clear the table of excuses and go!
gloss: A guide or channel that a component of a machine moves along:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I have lately seen a shuttle machine of Messrs. Grover Baker's construction, in which the shuttle worked in a semi-circular race and produced two stitches at each revolution of the wheel.
Meanwhile another lug on the shuttle-band engages another carrier at the other end of the loom, and the belt, continuing to move in the same direction, conveys the carrier across the race in a similar manner as above described.
gloss: A guide or channel that a component of a machine moves along:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: inner/outer race
These bearings do not employ a loading groove or filling slot but utilize an uninterrupted race groove containing the maximum number of balls that can be introduced by eccentric displacement of the races. Due to the relatively large size of the balls and the fact that the ball curvature is only slightly less than the race curvature, the bearings have comparatively high load carrying capacity in both axial and radial directions.
The chances of picking up an inner race fault are small unless the load direction of the bearing coincides with the location of the accelerometer.
The bearing comprises four mechanical components: an outer race, an inner race, rollers (balls), and a cage that holds the rollers (balls) in place.
gloss: A keno gambling session.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Your odds are sometimes significantly better with video keno […] But because video keno plays so much faster, you're likely to lose more money over a given period. Live keno races start every 10 minutes, but you can make 100 bets on a video version in the same amount of time.
gloss: To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The drivers were racing around the track.
Honesty raced up six lengths in front of Wandering Minstrel, turned, then raced past for the second, and lost his place at the hedge; some work followed to the plantation, but Honesty was always the faster in the racing stretches, and won easily.
"I cannot wait to race in front of the amazing home crowd," she added.
gloss: To compete against in a race (contest).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I raced him to the car, but he was there first, so he got to ride shotgun.
[…]a fresh fox popped out of a pit, and they raced him to Cherrington, where hounds were stopped at dark[…]
He pulled it down and saw Tech's full-back closing in. Counting on his own fresh condition, Jimmy raced him toward the sidelines, and got around him just in time to prevent being forced out. The goal was waiting for him twenty yards away, and to the accompaniment of a deafening shout from the stands he placed the pigskin across the goal line.
gloss: To move or drive at high speed; to hurry or speed.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: As soon as it was time to go home, he raced for the door.
Her heart was racing as she peered into the dimly lit room.
The horse raced past the barn fell.
There she goes / There she goes again / Racing through my brain / And I just can't contain / This feeling that remains
Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."
Racing on, we parallel the M5 doing 95mph, according to the app on my smartphone.
gloss: To run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built."
He put the transmission into drive and pressed the gas. The engine raced and the motor home rocked, gently, but did not move forward.
Derived words: arms race
ballrace
caucus race
data race
dog in the race
elephant race
footrace
have a dog in the race
headrace
head-race
head race
loudness race
midrace
mill-race
minirace
nearly never won the race
no horse in that race
no horse in this race
off to the races
one's race is run
pawn race
postrace
prerace
raceabout
race against the clock
race against time
racebike
racebook
racecard
racecar
race car
racecation
race cloth
race condition
racecourse
race cycling
raceday
race day
race game
race glass
racegoer
race-goer
racegoing
raceground
race hazard
racehorse
racemare
race meeting
race out of the traps
racepath
race queen
race rotation
racerunner
race to the bottom
race to the top
racetrack
race track
racewalk
race-walk
race walk
race walker
racewalker
race walking
racewalking
raceway
racewear
racing car
rat-race
rat race
scratch race
slow and steady wins the race
slow but sure wins the race
space race
the race that stops a nation
tiderace
ultrarace
water race
wheel-race
winrace
multirace
nonrace
racecraft
raceless
racelike
racemate
race knife
outrace
overrace
raceable
race off
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