Meaning of race | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.
2. A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics (see Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race):
   countable, uncountable
3. A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.
   countable, uncountable
4. A surname.
5. A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective.
   countable, uncountable
6. A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective
7. A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of common physical characteristics, such as skin color or hair type.
   countable, uncountable
8. Swift progress; rapid motion; an instance of moving or driving at high speed.
   countable, uncountable
9. run (act of running)
10. Cape, a cape at the SE extremity of Newfoundland.
11. Swift progress; rapid motion; an instance of moving or driving at high speed
12. A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of shared characteristics or qualities, for example social qualities.
    countable, uncountable
13. A race condition; a bug or problem that occurs when two or more components attempt to use the same resource at the same time.
    countable, uncountable
14. run
15. rule by Caucasians, especially Europeans.
16. A race condition; a bug or problem that occurs when two or more components attempt to use the same resource at the same time
17. A large group of nonhumans distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.
    countable, uncountable
18. A sequence of events; a progressive movement toward a goal.
    countable, uncountable
19. college degree, major, main course of study
20. the sociological study of race using anthropological methods. — anthroposociological, adj.
21. A sequence of events; a progressive movement toward a goal
22. A group of organisms distinguished by common characteristics; often an informal infraspecific rank in taxonomy, below species
    countable, uncountable
23. career
24. A fast-moving current of water.
    countable, uncountable
25. the policy of strict racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against non-whites practiced in the Republic of South Africa.
26. A fast-moving current of water
27. A group of organisms distinguished by common characteristics; often an informal infraspecific rank in taxonomy, below species:
    countable, uncountable
28. A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly different characteristics; a mating group.
    countable, uncountable
29. obtuse or narrow-minded intolerance, especially of other races or religions. — bigot, n., — bigoted, adj.
30. 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.
    countable, uncountable
31. A strain of plant with characteristics causing it to differ from other plants of the same species.
    countable, uncountable
32. the principle or practice of combining or representing two separate races, as white and Negro, on governing boards, committees, etc. — biracialist, biracial, adj.
33. A path that something or someone moves along.
    countable, uncountable
34. A breed or strain of domesticated animal.
    countable, uncountable
35. Biology. the study of the operation of factors that cause degeneration in offspring, especially as applied to factors unique to separate races. Also called dysgenics. — cacogenic, adj.
36. A guide or channel that a component of a machine moves along:
    countable, uncountable
37. A groove on a sewing machine or a loom along which the shuttle moves.
    countable, uncountable
38. A strain of microorganism, fungi, etc.
    countable, uncountable
39. the state of being a creole.
40. A ring with a groove in which rolling elements (such as balls) ride, forming part of a rolling-element bearing (for example, a ball bearing).
    countable, uncountable
41. A category or kind of thing distinguished by common characteristics.
    broadly, countable, uncountable
42. the quality of belonging to a particular race, region, or country. — endemicity, n.
43. A keno gambling session.
    countable, uncountable
44. Peculiar flavour, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavour.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
45. a government controlled by a particular race or national group. — ethnocratic, adj.
46. Characteristic quality or disposition.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
47. The sexual activity of conceiving and bearing biological offspring.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
48. Ancestry, lineage.
    archaic, uncountable
49. A step in a lineage or succession; a generation.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
50. Progeny, offspring, descendants.
    obsolete, uncountable

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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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

“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.”

“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!”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The Canadian race is one of the most vigorous on the globe.”

“Felovves, they ſhall never more us vvithſtonde, / For I ſe them all drovvned in the raſe of Irlonde.”

“I believe that the British race is the greatest of the governing races that the world has ever seen.”

“What is to become of the French race and the British race—yes, and the German race—if this thing keeps up?”

“Race was a significant issue during apartheid in South Africa.”

“The Native Americans colonized the New World in several waves from Asia, and thus they are considered part of the same Mongoloid race.”

“The race to which most anthropologists refer the native Americans is the Mongoloid of Eastern Asia, who are capable of accommodating themselves to the extremest climates, and who by the form of skull, the light brown skin, straight black hair, and black eyes, show considerable agreement with the American tribes.”

“Colonel Lin Nan: Would it offend you to be loved by a man of another race? Gladys Aylward: It would honor me.”

“Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?”

“The advent of the Internet has brought about a new race of entrepreneur.”

“We toiled not in the acquirement or establishment of them—they are a legacy bequeathed us, by a once hardy, brave, and patriotic, but now lamented and departed race of ancestors.”

“His opinion is founded on the alleged fact that there are scarely any drunkards in the wine-producing regions, where people drink wine with their food as freely as we do tea or coffee. "Give us what good wine we need," says the professor, "and the temperance crusade will be wellnigh ended when the present race of drunkards have passed away.”

“There's a race of men that don't fit in, / A race that can't stay still; / So they break the hearts of kith and kin, / And they roam the world at will.”

“Indeed, all of us are called to join the race of faith. Our identity as Christians is not a burden or an obstacle for our lives, but is rather a gift, […]”

“A treaty was concluded between the race of elves and the race of men.”

“There are two distinct races of gods known to Norse mythology[.]”

“Imagine a race of aliens that develops on a dimly lit world perpetually shrouded in clouds so that vision would be less useful for survival than on Earth.”

“Tali: My father is responsible for the lives of seventeen million people—our entire race is in his hands. And I'm his only child.”

“[I]nnumerable popingayes of ſundry kindes are found chattering in the groues of thoſe fenny places. […] For in the raſe of this large lande, Colonus [Christopher Columbus] him ſelfe brought and ſent to the courte a greate number of euery kynde, the which it was lawfull for all the people to beholde, and are yet dayly browght in like manner.”

“Two races are certainly valid. The Atlantic race (P. v. vitulina) is distinguishable from the Pacific race (P. v. richardi Gray, 1864) by skull characters.”

“A population that differs signicatly from other populations belonging to the same species is referred to as a geographic race or subspecies. Subspecies are separated from other subspecies by distance and geographic barriers that prevent the exchange of individuals, as opposed to the genetically based "intrinsic isolating mechanisms" that hold species apart.”

“Nevertheless, as our varieties certainly do occasionally revert in some of their characters to ancestral forms, it seems to me not improbable, that if we could succeed in naturalising, or were to cultivate, during many generations, the several races, for instance, of the cabbage, in very poor soil (in which case, however, some effect would have to be attributed to the direct action of the poor soil), that they would to a large extent, or even wholly, revert to the wild aboriginal stock.”

“Tree races develop not only in different latitudes, but also at different altitudes and within mountainous regions. Since climate changes markedly with altitude as well as latitude, both kinds of development are included in the term climatic races. In addition, soil or site races may develop in areas similar climatically but characterized by different soil or site conditions.”

“Our genetic evaluation suggests that the morphologically distinct race (Dolores River) is more closely related to the type materials than the ecologically distinct, high-elevation race.”

“For do but note a wild and wanton herd, / Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, / Fetching mad bounds.”

“They have another breed, called the Dunlop cows, which are allowed to be the best race for yielding milk in Great Britain or Ireland, not only for large quantities, but also for richness in quality.”

“Great St. Bernard Dog—This race is nearly allied to the Newfoundland Dog in form, stature, hair, and colors; but the head and ears are like that of a Water Spaniel.”

“Now Mary MacDonald of the Plant Breeding Institute at Maris Lane, Cambridge, has made an interesting study which has duplicated the conditions under which new races arise. And she has produced at least one new fungal race.”

“The type of microorganisms is a very important factor influencing the quality of cider. Yeast of various producers and races result in different taste and flavor.”

“You do not tell me her diſeaſe; and perhaps have not been able yourself fully to underſtand it. I hope it is not of the cephalic race.”

“Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, / Great chieftain o the puddin'-race!”

“Who does not like rhubarb pies? Not sour, soggy articles, such as have brought reproach upon the whole race of pies, but sweet, juicy pies, with light, flaky crust, a compound that has no rival.”

“Is it [the wine] of the right race?”

“On the day following Elizabeth's interview with Gideon, this innocent relish—the olives which gave zest, or the walnuts which gave race and richness, to Monkshaugh's moderate hebdomadal glass of old claret—was not forgotten.”

“So sang the poet in his pride of place, / And Arthur bade the pages plenish well / The cups of all the kings with wine of race, / Osaye or Algarde, Rhenish or Rochell, / Vernage of Venice, Rhodes or Famagust, / Sweet Malvoisie or Cretan Muscadel,—”

“And now I give my sensual race the rein.”

“[…]some great race of fancy or judgment in the contrivance[…]”

“His conversation, too, had a race and flavour peculiarly its own: it was nervous, sententious, and tinctured with genuine wit.”

“It behooveth therefore that the Mares appointed for race, be well compacted, of a decent quality, being fair and beautiful to look upon, the belly and loins being great, in age not under three nor above ten years old.”

“Male he created thee, but thy consort / Femal for Race; then bless’d Mankinde, and said, / Be fruitful, multiplie, and fill the Earth[.]”

“Yes, madam, believe it, she is a gentlewoman of very absolute behaviour, and of a good race.”

“Wars of religion, more sanguinary, cruel, and ruinous than even those of Henry the fifth and Edward the third, rise in succession under the three last princes of the race of Valois.”

“That very estate which the Lyndons now possess in Ireland was once the property of my race.”

“In ſeveral orders of knighthood, as in that of Malta, &c. the candidates muſt prove a nobility of four races or deſcents.”

“Perhaps this is the reason why it is an article of faith with the servants, handed down from race to race, that the departed Tisher was a hairdresser.”

“For the old stock is fast dying out, Jennie, / And a young race is taking their place, / In our grandmothers' day they had sense, Jennie, / No powder or paints on their face.”

“Have I my pillow left unpressed in Rome, / Forborne the getting of a lawful race, / And by a gem of women, to be abused / By one that looks on feeders?”

“The good man besought him. Let the king / Propitious hear a parent. In thy train / I have five sons. Ah! leave my eldest born, / Thy future vassal, to sustain my age!' / The tyrant fell reply'd. 'Presumptuous man, / Who art my slave, in this tremendous war, / Is not my person hazarded, my race, / My consort?[']”

“There the passions cramp’d no longer shall have scope and breathing-space; / I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race. / Iron-jointed, supple-sinew’d, they shall dive, and they shall run, / Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in the sun[.]”

“I must have saffron to color the warden pies; mace; dates, none—that's out of my note; nutmegs, seven; a race or two of ginger, but that I may beg; four pounds of prunes, and as many of raisins o' th' sun.”

“They have onions and garlick, and some herbs and small roots for sallads; and in the southernmoft parts, ginger growing almost in every place; the large races whereof are there very excellently well preserved, as we may know by our tasting them in England.”

“On the third day after this second boiling, pour all the syrup into a pan, put the races of ginger with it, and boil it up until the syrup adheres to the spoon.”

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