1. a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
2. a series of races, usually of horses or dogs, run at a set time over a regular course: They spent a day at the races.
3. any contest or competition, especially to achieve superiority: the arms race;the presidential race.
4. activity prompted by urgent need, responsibility, effort, etc., as when time is short or a solution is imperative: the race to find an effective vaccine.
5. onward movement; an onward or regular course, as of time, one’s life, etc., especially when thought of as swift or relentless: Often in the race of time and the daily struggle, we forget our true purpose in life.
6. an artificial channel leading water to or from a place where it or its energy is utilized: A mill race diverts the flow from the river to the millwheel.
7. the current of water in an artificial channel.
8. Geology.
• a strong or rapid current of water, as in the sea or a river.
• the channel or bed of such a current or of any stream.
9. a channel, groove, or the like, for sliding or rolling a part or parts, as the balls of a ball bearing.
10. Textiles.
• the float between adjacent rows of pile.
• race plate.

11. to engage in a contest of speed; run a race: He has raced several times in the Indy 500, but never won.
12. to run horses or dogs in races; engage in or practice horce racing or dog racing: Queen Elizabeth bred horses and regularly raced at Ascot.
13. to run, move, or go swiftly: We all screamed as the rollercoaster raced down the steep track.
14. (of an engine, wheel, etc.) to run with undue or uncontrolled speed when the load is diminished without a corresponding reduction of fuel, force, etc.: I’m taking the car to the mechanic—the engine keeps racing.

15. to run a race against; try to beat in a contest of speed: I'll race you to the water.
16. to enter (a horse, car, track team, or the like) in a race or races: In 1988, Jamaica raced its first bobsled team in the Winter Olympics.
17. to cause to run, move, or go at high speed: Don’t race the engine when shifting gears.

18. starting a period of vigorous and usually promising activity toward some goal: With unemployment easing and the GDP expanding, I think the economy is finally off to the races.I gave her a few tips for her speech, and she was off to the races writing it.

1. a group of persons related by common descent or heredity.
2. a population so related.
3. Anthropology.
• (no longer in technical use) any of the traditional divisions of humankind, the commonest being the Caucasian, Mongoloid, and Negro, characterized by supposedly distinctive and universal physical characteristics.
• an arbitrary classification of modern humans, sometimes, especially formerly, based on any or a combination of various physical characteristics, as skin color, facial form, or eye shape, and now frequently based on such genetic markers as blood groups.
• a socially constructed category of identification based on physical characteristics, ancestry, historical affiliation, or shared culture: Her parents wanted her to marry within her race.
• a human population partially isolated reproductively from other populations, whose members share a greater degree of physical and genetic similarity with one another than with other humans.
4. a group of tribes or peoples forming an ethnic lineage: the Slavic race.
5. any people united by common history, language, cultural traits, etc.: the Dutch race.
6. the human race or family; humankind: Nuclear weapons pose a threat to the race.
7. a variety; subspecies.
8. a natural kind of living creature: the race of fishes.
9. any group, class, or kind, especially of persons: Journalists are an interesting race.
10. the characteristic taste or flavor of wine.

11. of or relating to the races of humankind.

1. the root of the ginger plant; a gingerroot.

1. a cape at the SE extremity of Newfoundland.

1. a contest of speed, as in running, swimming, driving, riding, etc
2. any competition or rivalry
3. rapid or constant onward movement
4. a rapid current of water, esp one through a narrow channel that has a tidal range greater at one end than the other
5. a channel of a stream, esp one for conducting water to or from a water wheel or other device for utilizing its energy
• a channel or groove that contains ball bearings or roller bearings or that restrains a sliding component
• the inner or outer cylindrical ring in a ball bearing or roller bearing
7. a narrow passage or enclosure in a sheep yard through which sheep pass individually, as to a sheep dip
8. a wire tunnel through which footballers pass from the changing room onto a football field
9. a line of containers coupled together, used in mining to transport coal
10. another name for slipstream (def. 1)
11. the span or course of life
12. given or having no chance

13. to engage in a contest of speed with (another)
14. to engage (oneself or one's representative) in a race, esp as a profession or pastime
15. to move or go as fast as possible
16. to run (an engine, shaft, propeller, etc) or (of an engine, shaft, propeller, etc) to run at high speed, esp after reduction of the load or resistance

1. a group of people of common ancestry, distinguished from others by physical characteristics, such as hair type, colour of eyes and skin, stature, etc. Principal races are Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Negroid
2. human beings collectively
3. a group of animals or plants having common characteristics that distinguish them from other members of the same species, usually forming a geographically isolated group; subspecies
4. a group of people sharing the same interests, characteristics, etc
5. to introduce the subject of race into a public discussion, esp to gain a strategic advantage

1. a ginger root

1. a cape at the SE extremity of Newfoundland, Canada

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