race

race

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English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: rās, (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ɹeɪs/
  • Rhymes: -eɪs

Etymology 1

From Middle English race, partially from Old English rǣs (“a race, swift or violent running, rush, onset”), from Proto-West Germanic *rās; and partially from Old Norse rás (“a running, race”); both from Proto-Germanic *rēsō (“a course”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁s- (“to flow, rush”). Cognate with Middle Low German râs (“a strong current”), Dutch ras (“a strong whirling current”), Danish ræs, Norwegian and Swedish ras, Norwegian rås.

Noun

race (countable and uncountable, plural races)

  1. A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective.
  2. Swift progress; rapid motion; an instance of moving or driving at high speed.
    Synonyms: dash, running, rush
  3. (electronics, computing) A race condition; a bug or problem that occurs when two or more components attempt to use the same resource at the same time.
    Synonyms: race condition, race hazard
  4. A sequence of events; a progressive movement toward a goal.
    Synonyms: course, procedure, process, train; see also Thesaurus:sequence
  5. A fast-moving current of water.
    Synonym: rip
  6. 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.
    Hyponyms: headrace, mill race, wheel-race, tailrace
  7. A path that something or someone moves along.
    Synonyms: career, course, progress
  8. A guide or channel that a component of a machine moves along:
    1. (sewing, weaving) A groove on a sewing machine or a loom along which the shuttle moves.
      Synonym: shuttle race
    2. (engineering) 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).
  9. (gambling) A keno gambling session.
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Verb

race (third-person singular simple present races, present participle racing, simple past and past participle raced)

  1. (intransitive) To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).
  2. (transitive) To compete against in a race (contest).
  3. (intransitive) To move or drive at high speed; to hurry or speed.
    Synonyms: rush, shift, zip, zoom
  1. (intransitive, of a motor) To run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.
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Etymology 2

1560s, via Middle French race from Italian razza (early 14th century), of uncertain origin. Partially displaced native Middle English kinde (“kind, type, sort, race, nature”), whence English kind.

Noun

race (countable and uncountable, plural races)

  1. A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics (see Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race):
    Synonyms: breed, strain, kind, lineage, people, variety
    1. A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.
      Synonyms: clan, ethnicity, ethnic group, ethnie, nationality, tribe
    2. A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of common physical characteristics, such as skin color or hair type.
      Hyponyms: black, white, caucasian, mongoloid
    3. A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of shared characteristics or qualities, for example social qualities.
    4. (fantasy, science fiction, mythology) A large group of nonhumans distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.
  2. A group of organisms distinguished by common characteristics; often an informal infraspecific rank in taxonomy, below species:
    Synonyms: kind, strain, variety
    1. (biology) A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly different characteristics; a mating group.
      Synonyms: ecospecies, ecotype, subspecies
    2. (botany) A strain of plant with characteristics causing it to differ from other plants of the same species.
      Hyponyms: cultigen, cultivar, indigen
    3. (animal husbandry) A breed or strain of domesticated animal.
    4. (mycology, bacteriology) A strain of microorganism, fungi, etc.
      Synonyms: pathotype, pathovar
  3. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) (by extension) A category or kind of thing distinguished by common characteristics.
    Synonyms: class, type; see also Thesaurus:class
  4. (obsolete) 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.
    Synonym: typicity
  5. (obsolete) Characteristic quality or disposition.
    Synonyms: attribute, idiosyncrasy, quirk, trait; see also Thesaurus:characteristic
  6. (obsolete) The sexual activity of conceiving and bearing biological offspring.
    Synonyms: breeding, procreation, progenation, propagation, reproduction
  7. (archaic, uncountable) Ancestry, lineage.
    Synonyms: extraction, family, house, line, pedigree, stirp
  8. (obsolete) A step in a lineage or succession; a generation.
    Synonyms: age group, cohort
  9. (obsolete, uncountable) Progeny, offspring, descendants.
    Synonyms: get, issue, seed
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Verb

race (third-person singular simple present races, present participle racing, simple past and past participle raced)

  1. To assign a race to; to perceive as having a (usually specified) race.
  2. (obsolete) To pass down certain phenotypic traits to offspring.
    Synonyms: come true, breed true

Etymology 3

Mid 16th century. From Middle French raïz, raiz, rais (“root”), from Latin radix (“root”), from Proto-Italic *wrādīks, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds.

Noun

race (plural races)

  1. A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.
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Etymology 4

See raze.

Verb

race (third-person singular simple present races, present participle racing, simple past and past participle raced)

  1. Obsolete form of raze.
    Synonyms: demolish, destroy, tear up; see also Thesaurus:destroy

References

Further reading

  • race (bearing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • race (biology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • race (human categorization) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • racing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • race (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “race”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • race in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
  • “race”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • Diez, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der romanischen Sprachen, "Razza."

Anagrams

  • acer, -care, Cera, Care, care, caer, e-car, CERA, Acre, acre, Crea

Danish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French race, from Italian razza.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʁɑːsə]

Noun

race c (singular definite racen, plural indefinite racer)

  1. race (subdivision of species)
  2. breed
Inflection

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English race.

Alternative forms

  • ræs

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɹɛjs], [ˈʁɛˀs]

Noun

race n (singular definite racet, plural indefinite race)

  1. a race (a contest where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective)
  2. a rush
Inflection

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English race.

Alternative forms

  • ræse

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʁɛːsə]

Verb

race (imperative race, infinitive at race, present tense racer, past tense racede, perfect tense er/har racet)

  1. to race (to compete in a race, a contest where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective)
  2. to rush

Further reading

  • race on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /reːs/
  • Hyphenation: race
  • Rhymes: -eːs
  • Homophone: rees

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English race.

Noun

race m (plural races, diminutive raceje n)

  1. a speed contest, a race
    Synonym: wedloop
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

race

  1. inflection of racen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative
    4. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive

French

Etymology

As Middle French rasse "entirety of ancestors and descendants of the same family or people", from ca. 1480, spelling Middle French race recorded in 1549, from Italian razza (13th century), of uncertain origin (more at razza).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁas/
  • Rhymes: -as

Noun

race f (plural races)

  1. race (classification)
  2. kind
    Synonym: espèce
  3. (zoology) breed

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Descendants

  • → German: Rasse
    • → Czech: rasa
    • → Polish: rasa
    • → Serbo-Croatian: rasa
    • → Slovene: rasa
  • → Romanian: rasă

References

  • Etymology and history of “race”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Further reading

  • “race”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • acre, âcre, care, caré, créa, racé

Middle French

Etymology

16th century (spelling rasse from 1480), from Italian razza (early 14th century), of uncertain origin.

Noun

race f (plural races)

  1. race; breed

Descendants

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈra.t͡sɛ/
  • Rhymes: -at͡sɛ
  • Syllabification: ra‧ce

Noun

race f

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of raca

Swedish

Etymology 1

From English race.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rɛjs/, /ɹɛjs/
  • Rhymes: -ɛjs

Noun

race n

  1. race (competition)
Declension
Derived terms
  • köra sitt eget race

See also

  • kappkörning
  • kapplöpning
  • rally

Etymology 2

Noun

race c

  1. Obsolete form of ras.
Declension

References

  • race in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • race in Svensk ordbok (SO)

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