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Definition of race: 1. A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc.
2. A game, match, etc., open only to losers in early stages of contests.
3. A progress; a course; a movement or progression.
4. A root.
5. 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 of Alderney.
6. A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed.
7. Company; herd; breed.
8. Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
9. Esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running.
10. Hence, characteristic quality or disposition.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race.
14. 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.
15. To cause to contend in a race; to drive at high speed; as, to race horses.
16. To raze.
17. To run a race with.
18. To run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port.
19. 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.

Synonyms:

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sprint, tear, dash, scoot, canter, run, jog, rush, scamper, hurry, plunge, trot, dart, scurry, bound, scramble, lope, gallop

clan, category, degree, class, stripe, kind, make, form, series, people, brand, designation, kingdom, stamp, label, rank, strain, type, classification, variety, set, genotype, level, caste, style, ilk, genus, order, feather, phylum, species, sort, denomination, taxonomy, mold, line, family, grain, persuasion, grade, step

pedigree, ancestry, descent, breed, stock, genealogy, lineage