race

race is a 4-letter English word with 28 senses as transitive verb, noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To raze. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 28 senses

Definitions

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

    Synonyms: raceway

20. noun. a contest of speed

    "the race is to the swift"

21. noun. any competition

    "the race for the presidency"

22. noun. 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"

23. noun. (biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species

    Synonyms: subspecies

24. noun. the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller

    Synonyms: airstream, backwash, slipstream, wash

25. verb. compete in a race

    "he is running the Marathon this year"

    "let's race and see who gets there first"

    Synonyms: run

26. verb. move fast

    "He rushed down the hall to receive his guests"

    "The cars raced down the street"

    Synonyms: hasten, hie, hotfoot, rush, speed

27. verb. cause to move fast or to rush or race

    "The psychologist raced the rats through a long maze"

    Synonyms: rush

28. verb. to work as fast as possible towards a goal, sometimes in competition with others

    "We are racing to find a cure for AIDS"

Synonyms

raceway, subspecies, airstream, backwash, slipstream, wash, run, hasten, hie, hotfoot, rush, speed

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in race:

acer, acre, care, cera, crea

Common word forms

raced, racer, races, racing

Words from these letters

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