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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

... in the large "front room," Alexander Hitchcock stood above them, as the finest, most courteous spirit. There was race in him—sweetness and strength and refinement—the qualities of the best manhood of democracy. This effect of simplicity and sweetness was heightened in the daughter, Louise. She had been born in Chicago, in the first years of the Hitchcock fight. She remembered ...

— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick

... power! Destroyer of the human race, Whose iron scourge and maddening hour Exalt the bad, the good debase; When first to scourge the sons of earth, Thy sire his darling child designed, Gallia received the monstrous birth, Voltaire informed thine ...

— English Satires • Various

... subjected in the past hundred years has been occasioned by slavery. The crisis cost untold blood and treasure. The great strain of the next hundred years will be what slavery has left behind it—a vast and growing black population, and an imbittered race prejudice. ...

— American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 5, May, 1889 • Various

... was left an orphan at a tender age. She did not remember them. They were long gone to the spirit-land,-and she could not understand why they should be recalled to earth on her account. It was another one of the old, old teachings of her race that the names of the dead should not be idly spoken. It had become a sacrilege to mention carelessly the name of any departed one, especially in matters of disputes over worldy possessions. The unfortunate ...

— American Indian stories • Zitkala-Sa

... this. Staked on the ground, feet and arms wide-stretched, and securely bound, was a man. Or rather, it was a thing that had once been a man. It was a torture that even the diabolical mind of an Indian could not have invented. It was the insane creation of another race—the work of ...

— Kid Wolf of Texas - A Western Story • Ward M. Stevens

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