race

1 of 3

noun (1)

ˈrās

plural races

see usage paragraph below : any one of the groups that humans are often divided into based on physical traits regarded as common among people of shared ancestry

It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer … to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual … because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin …

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, United States Code

… family trees made more complicated by the intersection of different races …

Michael A. Chaney

First, the [2020 US Census] question [about race] is based on how you identify. Second, the race categories generally reflect social definitions in the U.S. and are not an attempt to define race biologically, anthropologically, or genetically. We recognize that the race categories include racial and national origins and sociocultural groups.

United States Census Bureau

To the extent that economic opportunity is expanded, race relations are improved.

Tom McClintock

also : the fact of dividing people, or of people being divided, into such groups : categorization by race

The Army will remove photographs of candidates in promotion board hearings … as part of an effort to address why so many black officers are being passed over in favor of their white counterparts … . The removal of photos by the military's largest service is a tacit acknowledgment of how much race still plays a part in decisions about who should advance.

Helene Cooper

The U.S. is going through a social and political upheaval, offering an opportunity to undertake a necessary, hard look at the role of race in defining what kind of a nation the U.S. is now and has been historically.

William C. Danvers

Even when a new show promises to break new ground … we are forced to swallow more of the same—a general erasure or ignorance of race.

Roxane Gay

dated : a group of people sharing a common cultural, geographical, linguistic, or religious origin or background

The Yorkshire type had always been the strongest of the British strains; the Norwegian and the Dane were a different race from the Saxon.

Henry Adams

… this girl, Dolores by name, and a Catalonian by race …

Charlotte Brontë

archaic : the descendants of a common ancestor : a group sharing a common lineage

… by descent I am the head not only of my own race, which ends with me, but of the Haughton family, of which, though your line assumed the name, it was but a younger branch.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

This forest was adjacent to the chief haunts of the MacGregors, or a particular race of them, known by the title of MacEagh …

Sir Walter Scott

: a group of living things considered as a category

… the whole race of mankind … stumbling and blundering along the path of life …

Anne Brontë

… Nan denounced the entire race of boys as "plaguey things."

Louisa May Alcott

… countless asters, … tansies, golden-rods, and the whole race of yellow flowers …

Henry David Thoreau

… full many a man loves his dog better than the rest of mankind, and so the devotion of the race of dogs finds return and recompense.

Wardon Allan Curtis

Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt star in a sci-fi thriller set in the near future, when an alien race has attacked Earth.

Barbara Vancheri

When the last century ended, humans could not even fly. In the 20th century, the human race went to the moon and began to explore the stars.

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archaic : breed

Under these conditions, a race of highly … delicate, and gentle cattle had been developed.

Henry E. Alvord

obsolete : the act of breeding or producing offspring

Male he created thee, but thy consort female for race …

John Milton

It behooveth therefore that the Mares appointed for race, be well compacted, of a decent quality, … in age not under three nor above ten years old.

Edward Topsell

biology : a group within a species that is distinguishable (as morphologically, genetically, or behaviorally) from others of the same species

This quail species is diverse and can be classified into 21 recognized geographic races in North America …

Eric T. Thacker and Tim L. Springer

also : a usually informal taxonomic category representing such a group that is often considered equivalent to a subspecies

archaic : a group of people sharing some habit or characteristic (such as profession or belief)

… the whole race of politicians put together.

Jonathan Swift

The Apostles, though they were fishers too, were of the solemn race of sea-fishers …

Henry David Thoreau

… the race of domestic clowns or jesters, maintained in the houses of the wealthy …

Sir Walter Scott

… to become a Dissenter seemed to him identical with choosing God instead of mammon. That race of Dissenters is extinct in these days, when opinion has got far ahead of feeling …

George Eliot

… our daughters haunt the town as if searching for something they missed, walking up beside the rocks with books in their arms like a race of little nuns.

John Updike

obsolete : temperament, disposition

And now I give my sensual race the rein …

William Shakespeare

race

2 of 3

noun (2)

plural races

: a competition between people, animals, vehicles, etc., to determine which one is the fastest : a contest of speed

runners in a race

a bicycle race

… only eight of the 26 cars that began the race were running at the end, through streets that were better suited to conveying rattletrap taxicabs than million-dollar race cars.

Sam Moses

: a contest or competition in which different people, groups, or teams try to win something or to do something first

a tight race for governor

the race to create a vaccine

a baseball pennant race

—often used figuratively to suggest that something (such as life itself) is like a contest or competition

He discussed terms for publishing his book. But over his face was that gossamery look of having dropped out of the race of progress, which made the vulgar city people feel they had won it over him …

D. H. Lawrence… men in the race of life, sink from the high and generous ideals of youth to the gambler's code of the Bourse; and in all our Nation's striving is not the Gospel of Work befouled by the Gospel of Pay?

W. E. B. Du BoisIn contemporary middle-class American culture, parenting is seen as an awesome responsibility, an unforgiving vigil to keep the helpless infant from falling behind in the great race of life.

Steven Pinker

races plural : an event at which there is a series of horse races

a trip to the races

literary : a set course (such as the apparent movement of the sun along a path over the period of a day) or a duration of time

Till a sun whose race is ending / Sees the rival stars contending

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

If the midnight bell / Did with his iron tongue and brazen mouth / Sound on into the drowsy race of night

William Shakespeare

archaic : a person's progression through life or through a period in life

… voices from the great cloud of witnesses who ever surround us in the race of life.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

: a track or channel in which something rolls or slides

specifically : a groove for the balls in a ball bearing or rollers in a roller bearing

The bearing has already spalled which is why it's making noise. No … additive can fix that, nor can it remove the particles of bearing race and roller from the lube in your differential housing.

B. Howing

see roller bearing illustration

: a strong or rapid current of water that flows through a narrow channel

: a watercourse used or made for an industrial purpose (such as mining or for turning the waterwheel of a mill)

Close to the furnace site today, on public park property, are the remains of the old facility's dam and water race.

Maryland Magazine

verb

raced; racing

intransitive verb

: to compete in a race

: to go, move, or function at top speed or out of control

people racing for safety

struggled to sleep as his mind raced

: to revolve too fast under a diminished load

transitive verb

: to engage in a race with

: to enter in a race

: to drive or ride at high speed

: to transport or propel at maximum speed

: to speed (an engine) without a working load or with the transmission disengaged

Kids Definition

race 1 of 3

verb

ˈrās

raced; racing

: to go, move, function, or drive at top speed

I looked up and saw black clouds racing off …

Jon Scieszka, The Good, the Bad, and the Goofy

: to take part in a contest of speed

: to cause an engine of a motor vehicle in neutral to run fast

race

2 of 3

noun

: a contest of speed

: a contest involving progress toward a goal

the race for mayor

: a strong or rapid current of water

race

3 of 3

noun

: any one of the groups that human beings are often divided into based on physical traits or ancestry

: a major group of living things

the human race

Medical Definition

race

noun

ˈrās

: a group within a species that is distinguishable (as morphologically, genetically, or behaviorally) from others of the same species

This quail species is diverse and can be classified into 21 recognized geographic races in North America …

Eric T. Thacker and Tim L. Springer

also : a usually informal taxonomic category representing such a group that is often considered equivalent to a subspecies

: any one of the groups that humans are often divided into based on physical traits regarded as common among people of shared ancestry

race 1 of 2

noun

as in family

a group of persons who come from the same ancestor the last descendent of a race of kings

Synonyms & Similar Words

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family
tribe
house
clan
lineage
folks
people
blood
stock
household
descendant
kin
dynasty
kindred
line
kinfolk
descendent
relative
nuclear family
blended family
kinsfolk
extended family
kinfolks
progeny
offspring
issue
seed
brood
kith
scion
kinsman
clansman
kinswoman

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

origin
birth
descent
ancestry
extraction
pedigree

as in ethnicity

a people having a common language, culture, and body of traditions Winston Churchill's famous hope and prediction that World War II would be remembered by future generations as the finest hour of the Britannic race

Synonyms & Similar Words

ethnicity
nationality
nation
minority
family
house
tribe
clan
folk
kindred

race

2 of 2

verb

as in to compete

to engage in a contest just how many candidates are racing for the senatorial seat this year?

Synonyms & Similar Words

compete
battle
fight
contend
rival
vie
jockey
challenge
play
face off
maneuver
work
train
engage
go out
try out
jostle

as in to speed

to proceed or move quickly was racing around trying to get everything done before her big trip to India

Synonyms & Similar Words

speed
travel
trot
run
drive
chase
hurry
rush
fly
scurry
zip
jump
course
buzz
dash
bowl
scoot
jog
motor
blast
blow
career
hare
dart
step
bolt
scuttle
jet
ram
tear
blaze
barrel
shoot
rocket
rip
breeze
belt
gallop
hump
zoom
hustle
sprint
cannonball
bomb
bundle
hie
beat it
hurl
hasten
pelt
whirl
bustle
hurtle
whisk
highball
careen
crack (on)
rustle
shake a leg
nip
hotfoot (it)
step on it
get a move on
streak
make tracks
overtake
beetle
scuffle
accelerate
stampede
outrun
scamper
flit
step out
scud
outpace
whiz
catch up
quicken
outstrip
arrow
whizz
beeline
fast-forward

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

drag
creep
crawl
lag
hang (around or out)
linger
dawdle
poke
stroll
shuffle
tarry
poke
slow (down or up)
saunter
amble
lumber
decelerate
dillydally
plod
loiter
dally

单词	race
释义	race 1 of 3 noun (1) ˈrās plural races 1 a see usage paragraph below : any one of the groups that humans are often divided into based on physical traits regarded as common among people of shared ancestry It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer … to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual … because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin … Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, United States Code … family trees made more complicated by the intersection of different races … Michael A. Chaney First, the [2020 US Census] question [about race] is based on how you identify. Second, the race categories generally reflect social definitions in the U.S. and are not an attempt to define race biologically, anthropologically, or genetically. We recognize that the race categories include racial and national origins and sociocultural groups. United States Census Bureau To the extent that economic opportunity is expanded, race relations are improved. Tom McClintock also : the fact of dividing people, or of people being divided, into such groups : categorization by race The Army will remove photographs of candidates in promotion board hearings … as part of an effort to address why so many black officers are being passed over in favor of their white counterparts … . The removal of photos by the military's largest service is a tacit acknowledgment of how much race still plays a part in decisions about who should advance. Helene Cooper The U.S. is going through a social and political upheaval, offering an opportunity to undertake a necessary, hard look at the role of race in defining what kind of a nation the U.S. is now and has been historically. William C. Danvers Even when a new show promises to break new ground … we are forced to swallow more of the same—a general erasure or ignorance of race. Roxane Gay b dated : a group of people sharing a common cultural, geographical, linguistic, or religious origin or background The Yorkshire type had always been the strongest of the British strains; the Norwegian and the Dane were a different race from the Saxon. Henry Adams … this girl, Dolores by name, and a Catalonian by race … Charlotte Brontë c archaic : the descendants of a common ancestor : a group sharing a common lineage … by descent I am the head not only of my own race, which ends with me, but of the Haughton family, of which, though your line assumed the name, it was but a younger branch. Edward Bulwer-Lytton This forest was adjacent to the chief haunts of the MacGregors, or a particular race of them, known by the title of MacEagh … Sir Walter Scott 2 a : a group of living things considered as a category … the whole race of mankind … stumbling and blundering along the path of life … Anne Brontë … Nan denounced the entire race of boys as "plaguey things." Louisa May Alcott … countless asters, … tansies, golden-rods, and the whole race of yellow flowers … Henry David Thoreau … full many a man loves his dog better than the rest of mankind, and so the devotion of the race of dogs finds return and recompense. Wardon Allan Curtis Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt star in a sci-fi thriller set in the near future, when an alien race has attacked Earth. Barbara Vancheri When the last century ended, humans could not even fly. In the 20th century, the human race went to the moon and began to explore the stars. sfgate.com b archaic : breed Under these conditions, a race of highly … delicate, and gentle cattle had been developed. Henry E. Alvord c obsolete : the act of breeding or producing offspring Male he created thee, but thy consort female for race … John Milton It behooveth therefore that the Mares appointed for race, be well compacted, of a decent quality, … in age not under three nor above ten years old. Edward Topsell 3 biology : a group within a species that is distinguishable (as morphologically, genetically, or behaviorally) from others of the same species This quail species is diverse and can be classified into 21 recognized geographic races in North America … Eric T. Thacker and Tim L. Springer also : a usually informal taxonomic category representing such a group that is often considered equivalent to a subspecies 4 archaic : a group of people sharing some habit or characteristic (such as profession or belief) … the whole race of politicians put together. Jonathan Swift The Apostles, though they were fishers too, were of the solemn race of sea-fishers … Henry David Thoreau … the race of domestic clowns or jesters, maintained in the houses of the wealthy … Sir Walter Scott … to become a Dissenter seemed to him identical with choosing God instead of mammon. That race of Dissenters is extinct in these days, when opinion has got far ahead of feeling … George Eliot … our daughters haunt the town as if searching for something they missed, walking up beside the rocks with books in their arms like a race of little nuns. John Updike 5 obsolete : temperament, disposition And now I give my sensual race the rein … William Shakespeare race 2 of 3 noun (2) plural races 1 a : a competition between people, animals, vehicles, etc., to determine which one is the fastest : a contest of speed runners in a race a bicycle race … only eight of the 26 cars that began the race were running at the end, through streets that were better suited to conveying rattletrap taxicabs than million-dollar race cars. Sam Moses b : a contest or competition in which different people, groups, or teams try to win something or to do something first a tight race for governor the race to create a vaccine a baseball pennant race —often used figuratively to suggest that something (such as life itself) is like a contest or competition He discussed terms for publishing his book. But over his face was that gossamery look of having dropped out of the race of progress, which made the vulgar city people feel they had won it over him … D. H. Lawrence… men in the race of life, sink from the high and generous ideals of youth to the gambler's code of the Bourse; and in all our Nation's striving is not the Gospel of Work befouled by the Gospel of Pay? W. E. B. Du BoisIn contemporary middle-class American culture, parenting is seen as an awesome responsibility, an unforgiving vigil to keep the helpless infant from falling behind in the great race of life. Steven Pinker c races plural : an event at which there is a series of horse races a trip to the races 2 a literary : a set course (such as the apparent movement of the sun along a path over the period of a day) or a duration of time Till a sun whose race is ending / Sees the rival stars contending Edward Bulwer-Lytton If the midnight bell / Did with his iron tongue and brazen mouth / Sound on into the drowsy race of night William Shakespeare b archaic : a person's progression through life or through a period in life … voices from the great cloud of witnesses who ever surround us in the race of life. Harriet Beecher Stowe 3 : a track or channel in which something rolls or slides specifically : a groove for the balls in a ball bearing or rollers in a roller bearing The bearing has already spalled which is why it's making noise. No … additive can fix that, nor can it remove the particles of bearing race and roller from the lube in your differential housing. B. Howing see roller bearing illustration 4 a : a strong or rapid current of water that flows through a narrow channel b : a watercourse used or made for an industrial purpose (such as mining or for turning the waterwheel of a mill) Close to the furnace site today, on public park property, are the remains of the old facility's dam and water race. Maryland Magazine see also a race against time race 3 of 3 verb raced; racing intransitive verb 1 : to compete in a race 2 : to go, move, or function at top speed or out of control people racing for safety struggled to sleep as his mind raced 3 : to revolve too fast under a diminished load transitive verb 1 : to engage in a race with 2 a : to enter in a race b : to drive or ride at high speed c : to transport or propel at maximum speed 3 : to speed (an engine) without a working load or with the transmission disengaged Synonyms Noun (2) blood clan family folks house kin kindred kinfolk kinfolks kinsfolk line lineage people stock tribe Verb battle compete contend face off fight rival vie See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences Verb Eight horses will race for the cup. That horse will never race again. She's going to race the champion. They raced each other home. I'll race you to see who gets there first. She races cars for a living. The flood raced through the valley. The truck's engine was racing. The dog raced ahead of me. See More Word History Etymology Noun (1) Middle French, generation, from Old Italian razza Noun (2) Middle English ras, from Old Norse rās; akin to Old English rǣs rush First Known Use Noun (1) 1547, in the meaning defined at sense 1c Noun (2) 15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2b Verb 15th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1 Phrases Containing race a race against time horse race drag race critical race theory race car race-baiting obstacle race master race sack race the human race selling race stakes race claiming race flat race three-legged race race riot rat race mixed race pre-race the rat race arms race use/play the race/gender card a race against the clock See More a race against time horse race drag race critical race theory race car race-baiting obstacle race master race sack race the human race selling race stakes race claiming race flat race three-legged race race riot rat race mixed race pre-race the rat race arms race use/play the race/gender card a race against the clock See More Kids Definition race 1 of 3 verb ˈrās raced; racing 1 : to go, move, function, or drive at top speed I looked up and saw black clouds racing off … Jon Scieszka, The Good, the Bad, and the Goofy 2 : to take part in a contest of speed 3 : to cause an engine of a motor vehicle in neutral to run fast race 2 of 3 noun 1 : a contest of speed 2 : a contest involving progress toward a goal the race for mayor 3 : a strong or rapid current of water race 3 of 3 noun 1 : any one of the groups that human beings are often divided into based on physical traits or ancestry 2 : a major group of living things the human race Medical Definition race noun ˈrās 1 : a group within a species that is distinguishable (as morphologically, genetically, or behaviorally) from others of the same species This quail species is diverse and can be classified into 21 recognized geographic races in North America … Eric T. Thacker and Tim L. Springer also : a usually informal taxonomic category representing such a group that is often considered equivalent to a subspecies 2 : any one of the groups that humans are often divided into based on physical traits regarded as common among people of shared ancestry race 1 of 2 noun 1 as in family a group of persons who come from the same ancestor the last descendent of a race of kings Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance family tribe house clan lineage folks people blood stock household descendant kin dynasty kindred line kinfolk descendent relative nuclear family blended family kinsfolk extended family kinfolks progeny offspring issue seed brood kith scion kinsman clansman kinswoman Antonyms & Near Antonyms origin birth descent ancestry extraction pedigree 2 as in ethnicity a people having a common language, culture, and body of traditions Winston Churchill's famous hope and prediction that World War II would be remembered by future generations as the finest hour of the Britannic race Synonyms & Similar Words ethnicity nationality nation minority family house tribe clan folk kindred race 2 of 2 verb 1 as in to compete to engage in a contest just how many candidates are racing for the senatorial seat this year? Synonyms & Similar Words compete battle fight contend rival vie jockey challenge play face off maneuver work train engage go out try out jostle 2 as in to speed to proceed or move quickly was racing around trying to get everything done before her big trip to India Synonyms & Similar Words speed travel trot run drive chase hurry rush fly scurry zip jump course buzz dash bowl scoot jog motor blast blow career hare dart step bolt scuttle jet ram tear blaze barrel shoot rocket rip breeze belt gallop hump zoom hustle sprint cannonball bomb bundle hie beat it hurl hasten pelt whirl bustle hurtle whisk highball careen crack (on) rustle shake a leg nip hotfoot (it) step on it get a move on streak make tracks overtake beetle scuffle accelerate stampede outrun scamper flit step out scud outpace whiz catch up quicken outstrip arrow whizz beeline fast-forward Antonyms & Near Antonyms drag creep crawl lag hang (around or out) linger dawdle poke stroll shuffle tarry poke slow (down or up) saunter amble lumber decelerate dillydally plod loiter dally See More
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