Race Meaning and Definition from WordNet (r) 2.0

race n
1. any competition; "the race for the presidency"
2. people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock; "some biologists doubt that there are important genetic differences between races of human beings"
3. a contest of speed; "the race is to the swift"
4. the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller [syn: slipstream, airstream, backwash, wash]
5. (biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species [syn: subspecies]
6. a canal for a current of water [syn: raceway] v
7. step on it; "He rushed down the hall to receive his guests"; "The cars raced down the street" [syn: rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along] [ant: linger]
8. compete in a race; "he is running the Marathon this year"; "let's race and see who gets there first" [syn: run]
9. to work as fast as possible towards a goal, sometimes in competition with others; "We are racing to find a cure for AIDS"
10. cause to move fast or to rush or race; "The psychologist raced the rats through a long maze" [syn: rush]

Race Meaning and Definition from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Consolation game \Con`so*la"tion game\, match \match\, pot \pot\, race \race\, etc. A game, match, etc., open only to losers in early stages of contests.

Race Meaning and Definition from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Race \Race\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Raced; p. pr. & vb. n. Racing.]
1. To run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port.
2. (Steam Mach.) To run too fast at times, as a marine engine

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* Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. - H.L. Mencken

* The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

* Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others. - M Scott Peck


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