race | Lernwerd

Forms

1.A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective.
- We had a race to see who could finish the book the quickest.
- The race around the park was won by Johnny, who ran faster than the others.
- Several horses ran in a horse race: the first one to reach the finishing post won.
2.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.A sequence of events; a progressive movement toward a goal.
4.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.
- As the name implies, a race condition means that two processes are competing within the same time interval, and the race affects the integrity or correctness of the computing tasks.

1.To move or drive at high speed; to hurry or speed.
- The horse raced past the barn fell.
- As soon as it was time to go home, he raced for the door.
- Her heart was racing as she peered into the dimly lit room.
2.To run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.
- He put the transmission into drive and pressed the gas. The engine raced and the motor home rocked, gently, but did not move forward.
- "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."
3.To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).
- The drivers were racing around the track.
- "I cannot wait to race in front of the amazing home crowd," she added.
4.To compete against in a race (contest).
- I raced him to the car, but he was there first, so he got to ride shotgun.

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Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁s-der.

Proto-Germanic *rēsōder.

Proto-West Germanic *rās

Old English rǣs

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Proto-Germanic *rēsō

Old Norse rásbor.

Middle English race

English race