Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To raze.
- 2noun
A root.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
Company; herd; breed.
- 5noun
A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed.
- 6noun
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.
- 7noun
Hence, characteristic quality or disposition.
- 8noun
A progress; a course; a movement or progression.
- 9noun
Esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running.
- 10noun
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.
- 11noun
Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
- 12noun
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.
- 13noun
The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race.
- 14noun
A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc.
- 15intransitive verb
To run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port.
- 16intransitive 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.
- 17transitive verb
To cause to contend in a race; to drive at high speed; as, to race horses.
- 18transitive verb
To run a race with.
- 19noun
a canal for a current of water
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- 20noun
a contest of speed
"the race is to the swift"
- 21noun
any competition
"the race for the presidency"
- 22noun
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"
- 23noun
(biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species
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- 24noun
the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
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- 25verb
compete in a race
"he is running the Marathon this year"
"let's race and see who gets there first"
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- 26verb
move fast
"He rushed down the hall to receive his guests"
"The cars raced down the street"
- 27verb
cause to move fast or to rush or race
"The psychologist raced the rats through a long maze"
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- 28verb
to work as fast as possible towards a goal, sometimes in competition with others
"We are racing to find a cure for AIDS"
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