LekhoriLekhoriA 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.
To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).
The drivers were racing around the track.
A surname.
1560s, via Middle French race from Italian razza (early 14th century), of uncertain origin. Partially displaced native Middle English kinde (“kind, type, sort, race, nature”), whence English kind. the...
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To compete against in a race (contest).
I raced him to the car, but he was there first, so he got to ride shotgun.
To assign a race to; to perceive as having a (usually specified) race.
To be raced as black in the U.S. translates symbolically into being considered inferior to whites, lazy, immoral, boisterous, violent, and sexually promiscuous.
To pass down certain phenotypic traits to offspring.
D'Hervieux obſerves that it is uſual to put the female canary bird to the male goldfinch, linnet, or the like, to breed; but for his part, he ſhould chuſe to put the male canary-bird to the female goldfinch, linnet, &c. becauſe the male uſually races more than the female, i. e. the young ones take more after the male than after the female.
To sharpen (a grindstone) by scraping its surface.
Another source of dust arises from the "hanging" and "racing" of the grindstones. […] This is effected by holding a bar of steel against it whilst it is slowly turned, and is known as "racing" the stone.
To pluck or snatch (something); also, to pull (something).
[H]e be-heilde towarde the fier, and saugh the flesshe that the knaue hadde rosted that was tho I-nough, and raced it of with his hondes madly, and rente it a-sonder in peces, and wette it in mylke, and after in the hony, and ete as a wood man that nought ther lefte of the flessh; […]