Definition of Race

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Definition of Race

Race

A game, match, etc., open only to losers in early stages of contests.

To raze.

A root.

The descendants of a common ancestor; a family, tribe, people, or nation, believed or presumed to belong to the same stock; a lineage; a breed.

Company; herd; breed.

A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed.

Peculiar flavor, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavor; smack.

Hence, characteristic quality or disposition.

A progress; a course; a movement or progression.

Esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running.

Hence: The act or process of running in competition; a contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding, driving, skating, rowing, sailing; in the plural, usually, a meeting for contests in the running of horses; as, he attended the races.

Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.

A strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or passage for such a current; a powerful current or heavy sea, sometimes produced by the meeting of two tides; as, the Portland Race; the Race of Alderney.

The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race.

A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc.

To run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port.

To run too fast at times, as a marine engine or screw, when the screw is lifted out of water by the action of a heavy sea.

To cause to contend in a race; to drive at high speed; as, to race horses.

To run a race with.

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Race Quotations

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
Ronald Reagan

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Mark Twain

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
Mark Twain

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
Mark Twain

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.
Mark Twain

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
Winston Churchill

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
Winston Churchill

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
Winston Churchill

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
C. S. Lewis

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
Mohandas Gandhi

Race Translations

race in Afrikaans is spoed, ras, jaag
race in Danish is race
race in Dutch is geslacht, stam, volksstam
race in Finnish is rotu
race in French is course, race
race in German is Laufring, Rennen, rennen, Menschenschlag, Rasse
race in Italian is razza, corsa
race in Latin is natio nationis, gens, curriculum
race in Spanish is correr, raza, carrera

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