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The Meaning of race
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(v. t.) To raze.
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(n.) A root.
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(n.) The descendants of a common ancestor; a family, tribe, people, or nation, believed or presumed to belong to the same stock; a lineage; a breed.
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(n.) Company; herd; breed.
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(n.) A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed.
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(n.) Peculiar flavor, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavor; smack.
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(n.) Hence, characteristic quality or disposition.
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(n.) A progress; a course; a movement or progression.
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(n.) Esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running.
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(n.) Hence: The act or process of running in competition; a contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding, driving, skating, rowing, sailing; in the plural, usually, a meeting for contests in the running of horses; as, he attended the races.
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(n.) Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
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(n.) 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 Portland Race; the Race of Alderney.
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(n.) The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race.
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(n.) A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc.
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(v. i.) To run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port.
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(v. i.) To run too fast at times, as a marine engine or screw, when the screw is lifted out of water by the action of a heavy sea.
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(v. t.) To cause to contend in a race; to drive at high speed; as, to race horses.
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(v. t.) To run a race with.
Synonyms
subspecies
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slipstream
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airstream
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backwash
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wash
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raceway
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rush
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hotfoot
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hasten
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hie
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speed
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pelt along
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rush along
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cannonball along
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bucket along
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belt along
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step on it
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run
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rush
Antonyms
linger
Rhymes
ace
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aerospace
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airspace
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anyplace
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apace
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arianespace
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base
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bass
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birthplace
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boldface
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bookcase
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brace
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briefcase
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caisse
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case
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cayce
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chace
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chase
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commonplace
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crace
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cyberspace
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dace
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database
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debase
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deface
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degrace
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diabase
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diastase
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disgrace
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displace
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efface
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embrace
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encase
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erase
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everyplace
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face
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fireplace
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footrace
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frace
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glace
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grace
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heyse
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incase
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interface
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interlace
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lace
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lactase
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lambastes
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left-brace
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lovelace
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mace
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mais
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marketplace
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misplace
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nace
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orthoclase
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outpace
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pace
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place
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plagioclase
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polymerase
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replace
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retrace
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right-brace
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scarface
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shoelace
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showcase
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showplace
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someplace
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space
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staircase
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steeplechase
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streptokinase
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suitcase
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thrace
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trace
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typeface
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vase
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wace
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wheelbase
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workplace