Race

Noun

 * 1) A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.
 * The Anglo-Saxon race
 * 1) A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of common, genetically linked, physical characteristics, such as skin color or hair type.
 * Race was a significant issue during apartheid in South Africa.
 * 1)  One of the categories from the many subcategorizations of the human species. See Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race.
 * The Native Americans colonized the New World in several waves from Asia, and thus they are part of the same Mongoloid race.
 * 1)  A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly different characteristics; informal for subspecies.
 * 2) A breed or strain of domesticated animal.
 * 3)  A category or species of something that has emerged or evolved from an older one (with an implied parallel to animal breeding or evolutionary science).
 * The advent of the Internet has brought about a new race of entrepreneur.
 * Recent developments in artificial intelligence has brought about a new race of robots that can perform household chores without supervision.

Synonyms

 * subspecies
 * breed
 * variety

Derived terms

 * bronze race
 * human race
 * master race


 * race baiting
 * race card
 * race relations

Verb

 * 1)  To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).
 * 2)  To move or drive at high speed.
 * As soon as it was time to go home, he raced for the door.
 * Her heart was racing as she peered into the dimly lit room.
 * 1)  Of a motor, to run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.

Noun

 * 1) A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective. Several horses run in a horse race, and the first one to reach the finishing post wins; in an arms race several countries each try to acquire more powerful weapons than any other.
 * 2) A progressive movement toward a goal.
 * 3) A fast moving current of water.
 * 4) Travels, runs, or journeys.
 * 5) The bushings of a rolling element bearing which contacts the rolling elements.

Derived terms

 * arms race
 * bumps race
 * caucus race
 * circuit race
 * claiming race
 * drag race
 * egg and spoon race
 * horse race
 * mill race
 * race car
 * race condition
 * rat race


 * relay race
 * race glass
 * race meeting
 * race rotation
 * race track
 * race walking
 * road race
 * sack race
 * space race
 * stage race
 * three-legged race

Noun

 * 1) A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.
 * 2) * 1842, Gibbons Merle, The Domestic Dictionary and Housekeeper's Manual, page 433:
 * 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.

Verbs for Race
(competition)

accelerate—; approve—; clinch—; compete in—; contend in—; enter—; judge—; observe—; oppose in—; outdistance in—; postpone—; promote—; protest—; wager on—; —enlivens; —enraptures; —excites; —fascinates;  —petrifies;   —revives;   — thrills.

Adjectives for Race
(general)

severed; vengeful; sacerdotal; antipathetic; bloody-minded; fading; earth-born; alien; idle; girdled; amphibious; literary; infinite; indestructible; civilized; chequered; wasted; kindred;  blissful;   canine;   impromptu; solid; tenacious; energetic; fecund; teeming; hectic; fallen; separate;  radiant; golden; high-born; beauteous; touchy; savage; warlike; blind; blundering; knightly; proverbial; brave; despicable; barbarous; desperate; well-marked; swarming; obstinate; lascivious; titanic; lawless; hardy; thrifty; ethereal; jocund; elimination; inscrutable; uncultivated; wild; human; contemptible; singing; indigenous; glorious; sturdy; godly; best; fierce; studious; invincible; ill-fated; breathless; oppressed; melodious; long-lived; valiant; sullen; ancient; reprobated; intractable; dominant; unfortunate; subjugated; dwarfish; noble; incapable; aggressive; miserable; bounding; degraded; volatile; well-known; perished; magnificent; frolicsome; dusky; inveterate; unreturning; interesting; ghostly; short-distance; primitive; purblind; domestic; polished; courageous; stoical; decorative; semi-civilized; headlong; gentle; aboriginal; high-hearted; timid; proud; shining; inoffensive; illustrious; pitiless; invalid; unconverted; cultural; hostile; fickle; ruling; backward; impious; antediluvian; rud¬est; obstacle; delicate; nurtured; greedy; contested; untrustworthy; hard; beastly; vagrant; malignant; feverish; wise; shadowy; interloping; buxom; cognate; active; consequent; awkward; depraved; self-opinionated.

Verbs for Race
(nationality)

characterize—; conquer—; detest—; distinguish—; exterminate—; limit—; mark—; perpetuate—; purify—; sow—; strengthen —; study—; uplift—; —ebbs; —evolves; —perishes; —prospers; —subsists; —vanishes ; —wanes.

Adverbs for Race
tirelessly; vengefully; lawlessly; awkwardly; gloriously; invincibly; boundingly; frolicsomely; courageously; greedily; feverishly; spectacularly.

Thesaurus
Le Mans, accelerate, adolescent stream, affiliation, affluence, afflux, affluxion, air race, animal kingdom, apparentation, aqueduct, arroyo, automobile race, beck, bed, bicycle race, birth, blood, bloodline, boat race, boat-race, boil, bolt, bourn, bout, bracket, braided stream, branch, brand, breed, brood, brook, brooklet, bundle, burn, burst, burst of speed, bustle, canal, canter, career, cast, caste, category, channel, character, charge, chase, chute, clan, class, color, common ancestry, community, compete with, competition, concourse, confluence, conflux, consanguinity, contention, contest, contest of speed, course, crack on, creek, creek bed, crick, cross-country race, crosscurrent, culture, culvert, current, dart, dash, dash off, dash on, dead run, decathlon, defluxion, deme, denomination, derby, derivation, descent, description, designation, direct line, distaff side, division, dog race, dogtrot, donga, double-header, double-time, doubles, downflow, downpour, drag race, drift, driftage, drive, dry bed, endurance race, estate, ethnic group, event, extraction, family, feather, female line, festinate, filiation, flank speed, flat-out speed, fling, flow, flowing, flowing stream, fluency, flume, flurry, flutter, fluviation, flux, fly, folk, footrace, forced draft, form, foursome, fresh, freshet, full gallop, gain ground, gallop, game, games of chance, genre, gens, genus, get going, get moving, gill, go, grade, grain, group, grouping, gulch, gully, gullyhole, gush, hand gallop, hare, haste, hasten, head, heading, headlong rush, headrace, heat, heavy right foot, helter-skelter, hie, high lope, hop to it, horse-race, house, hump, hump it, hurdle race, hurry, hurry on, hurry through, hurry up, hurry-scurry, hurtle, hustle, ilk, inflow, irrigation ditch, jog trot, kidney, kill, kin, kind, kindred, label, lap, lash, lazy stream, leap, level, line, line of descent, lineage, lope, lose no time, lot, make, make haste, male line, manner, marathon, marathon race, mark, match, match race, matriclan, maximum speed, meandering stream, meet, midchannel, midstream, mill run, millrace, millstream, mold, motorcycle race, move quickly, moving road, nation, nationality, nature, navigable river, nullah, number, obstacle race, onrush, onward course, open the throttle, open throttle, order, outflow, patriclan, pentathlon, people, persuasion, phratry, phyle, phylum, pick up speed, pigeonhole, plant kingdom, play, play-off, plunge, position, post, potato race, predicament, press on, push on, put on, put on steam, quicken, race with, racecourse, racing stream, rally, rank, rating, regatta, relay, relay race, rev, rip, rivalry, river, river bed, riverway, rivulet, road race, rubric, run, run a race, rundle, runlet, runnel, runoff, rush, rush through, sack race, scamper, scoot, scour, scramble, scud, scurry, scuttle, section, seed, sept, set, shape, shoot, side, sike, singles, skedaddle, sluice, society, sort, spate, spear side, species, speech community, speed, speed up, speedway race, spill stream, spillbox, spillway, spindle side, sport, sprint, sprint race, spurt, stamp, station, status, stem, step lively, step on it, step up, stirps, stock, stock-car race, strain, stratum, stream, stream action, stream bed, streamlet, streamway, stripe, style, subdivision, subgroup, suborder, subterranean river, succession, surge, swash, swash channel, sword side, tailrace, tear, the like of, the likes of, the turf, three-legged race, threesome, tide, title, torch race, totem, track, track race, trend, tribe, trot, twosome, type, undercurrent, undertow, variety, wadi, walk, water carrier, water channel, water flow, water furrow, water gap, water gate, watercourse, waterway, waterworks, wide-open speed, yacht race, zip

Etymology 1
From race:, from  razza:, of uncertain origin.

Some authorities have suggested derivation from raza, rasa, from earlier ras, res "head of cattle", from  رأس:. This, however, is difficult to support, since Italian razza predates the Spanish word.

Another likely source is raiza "line", a literal rendering of  linea sanguinis "bloodline of descent". Raiza is of origin, akin to  reiza "line",  rīta "to score, log, outline".

Etymology 2
from ras:, akin to Old English ræs:, compare Danish ræs:, Norwegian and Swedish ras:.

Noun

 * Albanian: garë
 * Arabic: عرق
 * Catalan: raça
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 種族, 种族, 種, 种
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: course, race
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: גזע ('geza'), גזע
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 인종 (人種)
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin: ,
 * Romanian: rasă, neam
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: lahi
 * Turkish:
 * Turkish:


 * Arabic: عرق
 * Catalan: raça
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 種族, 种族
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 인종 (人種)
 * Kurdish:
 * Romanian: rasă
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish:


 * Catalan: raça
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:


 * Italian:
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish:


 * Catalan: raça
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Gothic:
 * Greek:
 * Swedish:


 * Catalan: raça
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Catalan: raça
 * Dutch:


 * Greek:, γενιά

Related terms

 * racism
 * racial
 * racy

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: سباق
 * Basque: arineketa, lasterketa
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: cursa
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 競賽, 竞赛, 比賽, 比赛
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: wedloop
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 경주 (競走)
 * Latin:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: cursă (sportivă), : curse
 * Russian: гонка, гонка
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: трка, гонка
 * Roman: trka, gonka
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: kapplöpning
 * Taos: kwìawíne
 * Turkish:, müsabaka
 * Welsh: hil


 * Greek:
 * Japanese:


 * Swahili:


 * Finnish: voimakas virta, koski
 * Greek:


 * Romanian: curent de apă
 * Swahili:


 * Romanian: ambalare (turație), supraturare


 * Swahili:


 * Breton: redadeg (1), red  (3), gouenn  (5)
 * Dutch: wedstrijd (1), race  (1), wedloop  (1), ras  (5)
 * French: race (5)
 * German: Rennen (1, 2), Rasse  (4, 5)
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: raso
 * Indonesian: lomba (1), pacuan (1), laju (2,3), ras (4)
 * Interlingua: cursa (1, 2); currente, torrente (3); racia (4, 5)
 * Irish: clann (4)


 * Korean: 시합 (sihap)
 * Polish: wyścig (1, 2), rasa (3, 4)
 * Portuguese: corrida (1,2); correnteza, torrente  (3); raça  (4, 5)
 * Romanian: cursă, concurs (1)
 * Spanish: concurso (1), carrera (2), corriente (3), raza (4, 5), raíz (7)

Verb

 * Breton: kemer perzh en ur redadeg
 * Finnish: ,
 * Indonesian: lomba, berpacu
 * Interlingua: currer
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 競う, 競争する
 * Portuguese:
 * Slovene: dirkati
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish: yarışmak


 * Dutch: razen
 * Esperanto:, vetkuri
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: berpacu, melaju


 * Interlingua: currer
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Slovene: dirjati (to move), dirkati (to drive)
 * Swahili:


 * Swahili:


 * : racen, rennen, wedlopen

Etymology 3
From Middle French, related to the radix.

Noun

 * Catalan: arrel
 * Greek:


 * Japanese: 地下茎
 * Spanish:

Anagrams

 * acre, Acre
 * care

Noun

 * 1) race (racial category)
 * 2) breed

Noun

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

Synonyms

 * ræs

Verb

 * 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

Synonyms

 * ræse

Etymology 1
From race:, from  razza:.

Etymology 2
From the noun race:.

Etymology 3
From the verb race:.

Noun

 * 1) Speed contest, race

Derived terms

 * raceauto
 * racebaan
 * racefiets
 * racen

Etymology
From race:.

Noun

 * 1) race
 * 2) kind
 * 3)  breed

Etymology
From razza:, of  origin, from  reiza:, or possibly from  رأس:.

Synonyms

 * espèce

Related terms

 * de race
 * racé
 * racial
 * racialisme


 * racialiste
 * raciologie
 * racisme
 * raciste

Anagrams

 * acre, âcre
 * care
 * créa