Race

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective.

   “Several horses ran in a horse race: the first one to reach the finishing post won.”

2. isim Swift progress; rapid motion; an instance of moving or driving at high speed.

   “The flight of many birds is swifter than the race of any beasts.”

3. isim A race condition; a bug or problem that occurs when two or more components attempt to use the same resource at the same time.

   “Many problems of oscillations and races are solved by this arrangement.”

4. isim A sequence of events; a progressive movement toward a goal.

   “A race of wicked acts / Shall flow out of my anger, and o’erspread / The world’s wide face[.]”

5. isim A fast-moving current of water.

   “Here are in these seas two dangerous races, the one called St. Alban's, the other Portland Race.”

6. isim A water channel, especially one built to lead water to or from a point where it is utilised, such as that which powers a millwheel.

   “Any miners intending to divert and use water for mining or general purposes, or to cut a race or construct dams or reservoirs in connection therewith, shall give notice in writing thereof to the Warden […]”

7. isim A path that something or someone moves along.

   “My race of glory run, and race of ſhame,”

8. isim A groove on a sewing machine or a loom along which the shuttle moves.

   “I have lately seen a shuttle machine of Messrs. Grover Baker's construction, in which the shuttle worked in a semi-circular race and produced two stitches at each revolution of the wheel.”

9. isim A ring with a groove in which rolling elements (such as balls) ride, forming part of a rolling-element bearing (for example, a ball bearing).

   “inner/outer race”

10. isim A keno gambling session.

    “Your odds are sometimes significantly better with video keno […] But because video keno plays so much faster, you're likely to lose more money over a given period. Live keno races start every 10 minutes, but you can make 100 bets on a video version in the same amount of time.”

11. fiil To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).

    “The drivers were racing around the track.”

12. fiil To compete against in a race (contest).

    “I raced him to the car, but he was there first, so he got to ride shotgun.”

13. fiil To move or drive at high speed; to hurry or speed.

    “As soon as it was time to go home, he raced for the door.”

14. fiil To run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.

    “"My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built."”

15. isim A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.

    “The Canadian race is one of the most vigorous on the globe.”

16. isim A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of common physical characteristics, such as skin color or hair type.

    “Race was a significant issue during apartheid in South Africa.”

17. isim A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of shared characteristics or qualities, for example social qualities.

    “The advent of the Internet has brought about a new race of entrepreneur.”

18. isim A large group of nonhumans distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.

    “A treaty was concluded between the race of elves and the race of men.”

19. isim A group of organisms distinguished by common characteristics; often an informal infraspecific rank in taxonomy, below species
20. isim A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly different characteristics; a mating group.

    “Two races are certainly valid. The Atlantic race (P. v. vitulina) is distinguishable from the Pacific race (P. v. richardi Gray, 1864) by skull characters.”

21. isim A strain of plant with characteristics causing it to differ from other plants of the same species.

    “Our genetic evaluation suggests that the morphologically distinct race (Dolores River) is more closely related to the type materials than the ecologically distinct, high-elevation race.”

22. isim A breed or strain of domesticated animal.

    “For do but note a wild and wanton herd, / Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, / Fetching mad bounds.”

23. isim A strain of microorganism, fungi, etc.

    “Now Mary MacDonald of the Plant Breeding Institute at Maris Lane, Cambridge, has made an interesting study which has duplicated the conditions under which new races arise. And she has produced at least one new fungal race.”

24. isim A category or kind of thing distinguished by common characteristics.

    “You do not tell me her diſeaſe; and perhaps have not been able yourself fully to underſtand it. I hope it is not of the cephalic race.”

25. isim Peculiar flavour, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavour.

    “Is it [the wine] of the right race?”

26. isim Characteristic quality or disposition.

    “And now I give my sensual race the rein.”

27. isim The sexual activity of conceiving and bearing biological offspring.

    “It behooveth therefore that the Mares appointed for race, be well compacted, of a decent quality, being fair and beautiful to look upon, the belly and loins being great, in age not under three nor above ten years old.”

28. isim Ancestry, lineage.

    “Yes, madam, believe it, she is a gentlewoman of very absolute behaviour, and of a good race.”

29. isim A step in a lineage or succession; a generation.

    “In ſeveral orders of knighthood, as in that of Malta, &c. the candidates muſt prove a nobility of four races or deſcents.”

30. isim Progeny, offspring, descendants.

    “Have I my pillow left unpressed in Rome, / Forborne the getting of a lawful race, / And by a gem of women, to be abused / By one that looks on feeders?”