race
/ɹeɪs/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.08 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Swift progress; rapid motion; an instance of moving or driving at high speed.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A race condition; a bug or problem that occurs when two or more components attempt to use the same resource at the same time.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Several horses ran in a horse race: the first one to reach the finishing post won."
- "The race to cure cancer"
- "The race around the park was won by Johnny, who ran faster than the others."
- "We had a race to see who could finish the book the quickest."
- "I returned, and saw vnder the Sunne, That the race is not to the swift, nor the battell to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of vnderstanding, nor yet fauour to men of skil; but time and chance happeneth to them all."
- ""Behold that rival here! / "The race by vigour, not by vaunts is won; / "So take the hindmost, Hell."—He said, and run."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁s-der. Proto-Germanic *rēsōder. Proto-West Germanic *rās Old English rǣs ▲ Proto-Germanic *rēsō Old Norse rásbor. Middle English race English race From Middle English race, partially from Old English rǣs (“a race, swift or violent running, rush, onset”), from Proto-West Germanic *rās; and partially from Old Norse rás (“a running, race”); both from Proto-Germanic *rēsō (“a course”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁s- (“to flow, rush”). Cognate with Middle Low German râs ("a strong current"; whence German Low German Raas (“mad rush, rage, fury”)), Dutch ras (“a strong whirling current”), Danish ræs, Norwegian and Swedish ras, Norwegian rås.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹeɪs/
- British English: /ɹeɪs/
Usage
Inflected Forms
races (plural)
races (present, singular)
racing (participle, present)
raced (participle, past)
raced (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
raced (first person, past)
racest (archaic, present)
raced (past, second person)
racedst (archaic, past)
raceth (archaic, present)
Derived Forms
Phrases
arms race
at the races
caucus race
data race
dog in the race
elephant race
have a dog in the race
head-race