race
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noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective.
Several horses ran in a horse race: the first one to reach the finishing post won.
The race to cure cancer
The race around the park was won by Johnny, who ran faster than the others.
We had a race to see who could finish the book the quickest.
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)Swift progress; rapid motion; an instance of moving or driving at high speed.
Đồng nghĩa: dash, running, rush
- 3.
(countable, uncountable)(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.
Đồng nghĩa: race condition, race hazard
- 4.
(countable, uncountable)A sequence of events; a progressive movement toward a goal.
Đồng nghĩa: course, procedure, process, train, array, chain, procession, consecution, sequence, series, string, succession, train
- 5.
(countable, uncountable)A fast-moving current of water.
Đồng nghĩa: rip
- 6.
(countable, uncountable)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.
- 7.
(countable, uncountable)A path that something or someone moves along.
Đồng nghĩa: career, course, progress
- 8.
A guide or channel that a component of a machine moves along:
- 9.
(countable, uncountable)(gambling) A keno gambling session.
- 10.
A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics (see Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race):
- 11.
(countable, uncountable)A group of organisms distinguished by common characteristics; often an informal infraspecific rank in taxonomy, below species:
Đồng nghĩa: kind, strain, variety
- 12.
(broadly, countable, uncountable)(by extension) A category or kind of thing distinguished by common characteristics.
Đồng nghĩa: class, type, category, class, description, stripe, fashion, division, family, genre, ilk, kind, likes, race, rubric, set, sort, type
Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).
The drivers were racing around the track.
- 2.
(transitive)To compete against in a race (contest).
I raced him to the car, but he was there first, so he got to ride shotgun.
- 3.
(intransitive)To move or drive at high speed; to hurry or 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.
The horse raced past the barn fell.
Đồng nghĩa: rush, shift, zip, zoom
- 4.
(intransitive)(intransitive, of a motor) To run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.
- 5.
To assign a race to; to perceive as having a (usually specified) race.
- 6.
(obsolete)To pass down certain phenotypic traits to offspring.
Đồng nghĩa: come true, breed true
- 7.
(archaic, transitive)To sharpen (a grindstone) by scraping its surface.
- 8.
Alternative spelling of raze.
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(obsolete, transitive)To pluck or snatch (something); also, to pull (something).
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From Middle English race, partially from Old English rǣs (a race, swift or violent running, rush, onset), from *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 râs ("a strong current"; whence Raas), ras, ræs, and ras, rås.