noun. A group of people identified as distinct from other groups because of supposed physical or genetic traits shared by the group. Most biologists and anthropologists do not recognize race as a biologically valid classification, in part because there is more genetic variation within groups than between them.

noun. A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution.

noun. A genealogical line; a lineage.

noun. Humans considered as a group.

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noun. A usually geographically isolated population of organisms that differs from other populations of the same species in certain heritable traits.

noun. A breed or strain, as of domestic animals.

noun. A distinguishing or characteristic quality, such as the flavor of a wine.

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noun. A competition of speed, as in running or riding.

noun. A series of such competitions held at a specified time on a regular course.

noun. An extended competition in which participants struggle like runners to be the winner.

noun. Steady or rapid onward movement.

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noun. A strong or swift current of water.

noun. The channel of such a current.

noun. An artificial channel built to transport water and use its energy.

noun. A groovelike part of a machine in which a moving part slides or rolls.

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intransitive verb. To compete in a contest of speed.

intransitive verb. To move rapidly or at top speed.

intransitive verb. To run too rapidly due to decreased resistance or unnecessary provision of fuel.

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intransitive verb. To compete against in a race.

intransitive verb. To cause to compete in a race.

intransitive verb. To transport rapidly or at top speed; rush.

intransitive verb. To cause (an engine with the gears disengaged, for example) to run swiftly or too swiftly.

To run swiftly; run in, or as if engaged in, a contest of speed.

To run with uncontrolled speed; go or revolve wildly or with improper acceleration: said of a steam-engine, a wheel, a ship's screw, or the like, when resistance is diminished without corresponding diminution of power.

To practise horse-racing as an occupation; be engaged in the business of running horses.

To cause to run or move swiftly, push or drive onward in, or as if in, a trial of speed: as, to race a horse; to race steamers.

To run, or cause horses, etc., to run, in competition with; contend against in a race.

noun. A rush; running; swift course.

noun. A course which has to be run, passed over, or gone through; onward movement or progression; career.

noun. A contest of speed; a competitive trial of speed, especially in running, but also in riding, driving, sailing, rowing, walking, or any mode of progression.

noun. Course, as of events; progress.

noun. Struggle; conflict; tumult; trouble.

noun. Course; line of onward movement; way; route.

noun. 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 Race of Alderney; Portland Race.

noun. A canal or watercourse from a dam to a water-wheel: specifically called the head-race.

noun. The watercourse which leads away the water after it leaves the wheel: specifically called the tail-race.

noun. A root. See race-ginger, and hand, 13 .

To tear up; snatch away hastily.

An obsolete form of rase, raze.

In heraldry, same as indented.

noun. A calcareous concretion in brick-earth.

noun. The heart, liver, and lungs or lights of an animal, especially of a calf: same as pluck, 4.

noun. The circnlar path traversed by a horse in driving a machine by a horse-whim; a gin-ring or gin-race.

noun. In mech., an annular ring or groove in which the rollers of a roller-bearing, or the balls of a ball-bearing, travel; a ball-race; a roller-race. For a roller-bearing, the race is usually the frustum of a very flat cone, the rollers being frusta of the complementary cone.

noun. A narrow passage, fenced with hurdles, for sheep; a lane.

"Howe took a narrow two point USA Crits lead with 20 laps to go in the race, and he held onto the orange and white jersey come the end of the  race."