race (original) (raw)
race verb (HURRY)
He raced down the street.
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
- speedHe ran back to his car and sped off.
- raceShe raced over and hugged me.
- flyShe flew across the room just in time to stop the baby falling off the chair.
- beltUK Traffic was belting along the motorway.
- tearA fire truck came tearing down the road.
- streakBullets streaked across the sky.
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
- runShe saw him running down the street.
- sprintI had to sprint to catch the bus.
- jog"What do you do to keep fit?" "I jog and go swimming."
- raceHe raced up the stairs to answer the phone.
- rushEveryone rushed to the door when the alarm went off.
- dashHe dashed out the door after the dog.
Idiom
(Definition of race from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
race | American Dictionary
race noun (COMPETITION)
[ C ] politics & government
race noun (PEOPLE)
[ U ] Discrimination because of race is against the law.
race verb [I/T] (COMPETE)
(Definition of race from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of race
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To be more precise, he runs away from the law by defiantly refusing to win the race as the favourite competitor.
Overall, the clines tended to be wider the further they were from the race centre.
But, unlike them, she recognizes race even as she seeks to transcend it.
It should also look into the issue whether regulatory competition is really a race and if so what do we mean by that.
Or should they help and support each other and race to the top standards?
By this time the statistics were not broken down by race (although, interestingly, the tribal breakdown remained).
In addition to these factors, we also examine race and insurance status.
The choice among all the actions that are simultaneously enabled at the same state is governed by the race policy.
Cross-cutting subject areas include children and the family, disability, gender, mental health, old age, race/ethnicity and young people.
The data were then re-examined in the light of the phylogenetic analysis by identifying the races to which the individuals used in the study belonged.
Thus, this dataset represents the closest thing to a universe of advertisements that exists for these races.
This vision is not afraid to give special recognition to the poor through, for example, race and gender preferences, because of their marginalisation.
These associations remained significant after adjustments for age, gender, race, marital status and education.
Her contact with even the best of this race is fatal.
Over time, party differences on race grew increasingly stark, and new voters began to sort themselves into the two parties according to their racial ideology.
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Collocations with race
These are words often used in combination with race.
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People will almost certainly want to communicate with an alien race if we know it exists.
What race meeting, what point-to-point meeting, does not involve the police controlling the traffic on the roads for a long period—much longer than for a bicycle race?
Like many of the races, the canoe race divides itself into two age groups.
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