I returned, and saw vnder the Sunne, That therace 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! / "Therace by vigour, not by vaunts is won; / "So take the hindmost, Hell."—He said, and run.
2012 November 2, Ken Belson, “After Days of Pressure, Marathon Is Off”, inThe New York Times[1]:
After days of intensifying pressure from runners, politicians and the general public to call off the New York City Marathon in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, city officials and the event’s organizers decided Friday afternoon to cancel therace.
1631,Francis [Bacon], “VII. Century. [Experiments Solitary touching the Quicknesse of Motion in Birds.]”, inSylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries.[…], 3rd edition, London:[…]William Rawley[…];[p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee[…],→OCLC,page166:
The flight of many birds is swifter than therace of any beasts.
Hence the rapidrace / Of light, and lustre from th' effusive sun
1847 December, “The Literature of Humbug”, inThe Young American's Magazine, volume 1,page318:
And above all, it is an age of activity and enterprise, an age of new discoveries and new deviltries, an age of magnetic telegraphs and Mississippi bonds, and it would be indeed odd if, in the swiftrace of progress, the rogue did not keep his natural station in the van of the movement.
1989, R. Raghuram,Computer Simulation of Electronic Circuits, New Delhi: Wiley Eastern,→ISBN,page181:
Many problems of oscillations andraces are solved by this arrangement.
1999, Max Hailperin, Barbara Kaiser, Karl Knight, “Java, Applets, and Concurrency”, inConcrete Abstractions, Brooks/Cole Publishing,→ISBN,page622:
Because arace by definition depends on the timing being just wrong, you could test your program any number of times, never observe any misbehavior, and still have a user run into the problem.¶ This occurrence is not just a theoretical possibility: Real programs have race bugs and real users have encountered them, sometimes with consequences that have literally been fatal.
2012, Charles P. Pfleeger, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger,Analyzing Computer Security, Prentice Hall,page79:
As the name implies, a race condition means that two processes are competing within the same time interval, and therace affects the integrity or correctness of the computing tasks.
1603,Ben Jonson,Sejanus His Fall[2], act 2, scene 2:
Arace of wicked acts / Shall flow out of my anger, and o’erspread / The world’s wide face[.]
1624, Francis Bacon, “Considerations Touching a War with Spain”, in Basil Montagu, editor,The Works of Francis Bacon, volume 5, William Pickering, published1826,page240:
An offensive war is made, which is unjust in the aggressor; the prosecution andrace of the war carrieth the defendant to invade the ancient patrimony of the first aggressor, who is now turned defendant; shall he sit down, and not put himself in defence?
1893, “Remarks upon the Way from Abingdon to Southamption, and other Places”, inThe Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Portland, volume 2, London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office,page288:
Here are in these seas two dangerousraces, the one called St. Alban's, the other Portland Race.
1980, Pauline H. Gurewitz,Hydraulic Research in the United States and Canada, 1978, page120:
The existing analysis and program for the propeller-rudder interaction has been updated incorporating all the improvements concerned with the propeller loading distribution, including that associated with the fact that the rudder is immersed in therace of the propeller.
2003 December, Jonathan Raban, “Julia and the Whirlpools”, inCruising World, volume29, number12,page40:
This is an area of spectacular tidalraces, rips, swirls, boils, whirlpools, overfalls, currents, and countercurrents. Scylla and Charybdis pale by comparison with the great maelstroms where the sea is trapped between Vancouver Island and the Canadian mainland.
A waterchannel, especially one built to lead water to or from a point where it is utilised, such as that whichpowers amillwheel.
1885,James Leal Greenleaf, “Report on the Water-Powers of the Drainage Basins of Lakes Huron and Erie, in the United States”, inReports on the Water-Power of the United States, Washington: Department of the Interior, part 1,pages504–505:
Evidently the future manufacturing development depends upon the hydraulic canal, so far as existing works are concerned, rather than upon the tworaces, which can never be enlarged to embrace a comprehensive improvement of the river, while the capabilities at th hydraulic basin are unrivaled. So far as can be learned there is no expectation of ever increasing materially the capacity of theraces.
1888, “Water Rights”, inGold Mining Regulations, 1888, Parliament of South Australia, section 48,page 4:
Any miners intending to divert and use water for mining or general purposes, or to cut arace or construct dams or reservoirs in connection therewith, shall give notice in writing thereof to the Warden[…]
1957 December 16, A. H. Mouat, R. C. Stuart, G. Mason, “Farming in Ida Valley, Central Otago”, inThe New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, volume95, number 6,page587:
Water for irrigation is stored in the high country behind the Upper Manorburn Dam. Two parallelraces at different levels run along the west side of the valley and onerace flowing along the east side is supplemented by water stored at the Poolburn Dam.
There were all the marked passages, which had thrilled his soul so often,—words of patriarchs and seers, poets and sages, who from early time had spoken courage to man,—voices from the great cloud of witnesses who ever surround us in therace of life.
2008, Chad Taylor,The Cry of the Harvest, page115:
Don't let fear be a factor for you as the finish line of harvest calls out to you to join therace of eternity. Clear the table of excuses and go!
1860, Charles Cole,The Sewing Machine, and its Capabilities,page53:
I have lately seen a shuttle machine of Messrs. Grover Baker's construction, in which the shuttle worked in a semi-circularrace and produced two stitches at each revolution of the wheel.
1872 November 29, “Improved Loom for Weaving Fabrics of Any Width”, inThe English Mechanic and Word of Science, volume16, number401,page259:
Meanwhile another lug on the shuttle-band engages another carrier at the other end of the loom, and the belt, continuing to move in the same direction, conveys the carrier across therace in a similar manner as above described.
(engineering) Aring with a groove in which rolling elements (such as balls) ride, forming part of a rolling-elementbearing (for example, aball bearing).
1965 August 15,Maintenance of Aeronautical Antifriction Bearings,NAVWEPS 01-1A-503, United States Bureau of Naval Weapons, section 2,page 5:
These bearings do not employ a loading groove or filling slot but utilize an uninterruptedrace groove containing the maximum number of balls that can be introduced by eccentric displacement of theraces. Due to the relatively large size of the balls and the fact that the ball curvature is only slightly less than therace curvature, the bearings have comparatively high load carrying capacity in both axial and radial directions.
1999, Steve Goldman,Vibration Spectrum Analysis, 2nd edition, New York: Industrial Press,→ISBN,page90:
The chances of picking up an innerrace fault are small unless the load direction of the bearing coincides with the location of the accelerometer.
2017, Tian Ran Lin, Kun Yu, Jiwen Tan, “Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis of Roller Element Bearing”, in Pranav H. Darji, editor,Bearing Technology, Rijeka, Croatia: InTech,→DOI,→ISBN,page40:
The bearing comprises four mechanical components: an outerrace, an innerrace, rollers (balls), and a cage that holds the rollers (balls) in place.
2022, Kevin Blackwood, Swain Scheps, “Striking the Mother Lode: Keno and Bingo”, inCasino Gambling For Dummies[3], 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons:
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 kenoraces start every 10 minutes, but you can make 100 bets on a video version in the same amount of time.
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1875, “Lichfield Open Meeting”, in John Henry Walsh, editor,Coursing Calendar for the Autumn Season 1874,page187:
Honestyraced up six lengths in front of Wandering Minstrel, turned, thenraced past for the second, and lost his place at the hedge; some work followed to the plantation, but Honesty was always the faster in the racing stretches, and won easily.
2023 May 10, “Athletics: Dina Asher-Smith set to race at London Stadium in July”, inBBC News[4]:
"I cannot wait torace in front of the amazing home crowd," she added.
[…]a fresh fox popped out of a pit, and theyraced him to Cherrington, where hounds were stopped at dark[…]
1928 November, Paschal N. Strong, “Signals”, inBoys' Life, volume18, number11,page61:
He pulled it down and saw Tech's full-back closing in. Counting on his own fresh condition, Jimmyraced him toward the sidelines, and got around him just in time to prevent being forced out. The goal was waiting for him twenty yards away, and to the accompaniment of a deafening shout from the stands he placed the pigskin across the goal line.
Across Japan, technology companies and private investors areracing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."
2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, inRail, page66:
Racing on, we parallel the M5 doing 95mph, according to the app on my smartphone.
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Diez and some other scholars suggest derivation fromProto-Germanic*raitō (whenceOld High Germanreiza(“line”) andOld Norseríta(“to score, log, outline”)), perhaps viaLombardic*raiza(“line”), which Körting notes is a literal rendering ofLatinlineasanguinis(“bloodline of descent”).[1] Anatoly Liberman says "the semantic fit is good" but the chronology falters; he says the Germanic word went out of use before the Italian word arose, and he says the intermediary is not attested.[2]
Meyer-Lübke suggestedLatingeneratio as the root; Körting says "the disappearance oftwo initial syllables hardly seems credible", but Meyer-Lübke notes the Venetian formnarazza and the Old Bellunesian formnaraccia, positing that after the first syllablege- was lost, the remaining(una) narazza came to be reanalysed asuna razza.[1]
Gianfranco Contini suggests the Italian word comes fromOld Frenchharaz(“troop of horses”),[4] whence ModernFrenchharas(“breeding farm for horses; stud farm”), fromOld Norsehárr(“grey-haired; hoary”). Liberman considers this derivation the most likely.[2]
radix(“root”) (per Ulrich);[1] Liberman says "the semantic match is excellent", andrace(“rhizome of ginger”) (which definitely derives fromradix) shows that the phonology is plausible.[2]
The nominative ofratio (perhaps via an unattested intermediate form *razzo), as opposed toragione which derives from the accusativerationem.
Other implausible suggestions include Slavicraz[2][1] and Basquearraca, supposedly meaning "stud animal"[2] (Basquearrazza, "race", derives from Spanish).
A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics (see Wikipedia's article onhistorical definitions of race):
We toiled not in the acquirement or establishment of them—they are a legacy bequeathed us, by a once hardy, brave, and patriotic, but now lamented and departedrace of ancestors.
1895 November 11,Joseph Chamberlain,Speech given to the Imperial Institute:
I believe that the Britishrace is the greatest of the governingraces that the world has ever seen.
1917 February, Will Irwin, “War and the Race”, inThe Advocate of Peace, volume79, number 2, page50:
What is to become of the Frenchrace and the Britishrace—yes, and the Germanrace—if this thing keeps up?
A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of commonphysicalcharacteristics, such as skin color or hair type.
Therace to which most anthropologists refer the native Americans is the Mongoloid of Eastern Asia, who are capable of accommodating themselves to the extremest climates, and who by the form of skull, the light brown skin, straight black hair, and black eyes, show considerable agreement with the American tribes.
Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that ofrace. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people byrace really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?
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 newrace of entrepreneur.
1872 October 5, Prof. G[eorge] C[linton] Swallow, quotee, “Table-Talk”, inAppletons' Journal, volume 8, number184,page386:
His opinion is founded on the alleged fact that there are scarely any drunkards in the wine-producing regions, where people drink wine with their food as freely as we do tea or coffee. "Give us what good wine we need," says the professor, "and the temperance crusade will be wellnigh ended when the presentrace of drunkards have passed away.
There's arace of men that don't fit in, / Arace that can't stay still; / So they break the hearts of kith and kin, / And they roam the world at will.
2009, Eunjoo M. Kim, edited by David L. Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor,Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary, Year C, page249:
Indeed, all of us are called to join therace of faith. Our identity as Christians is not a burden or an obstacle for our lives, but is rather a gift,[…]
A treaty was concluded between therace of elves and therace of men.
1898, Herman Isidore Stern,The gods of our fathers: a study of Saxon mythology, page15:
There are two distinctraces of gods known to Norse mythology[.]
1999, Clifford A. Pickover,The Science of Aliens, page47:
Imagine arace of aliens that develops on a dimly lit world perpetually shrouded in clouds so that vision would be less useful for survival than on Earth.
1968 December, Dale W. Rice, Victor B. Scheffer,A List of the Marine Mammals of the World, Special Scientific Report—Fisheries number 579, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Phoca vitulina,page 6:
Tworaces are certainly valid. The Atlanticrace (P. v. vitulina) is distinguishable from the Pacificrace (P. v. richardi Gray, 1864) by skull characters.
A population that differs signicatly from other populations belonging to the same species is referred to as ageographicrace orsubspecies. Subspecies are separated from other subspecies by distance and geographic barriers that prevent the exchange of individuals, as opposed to the genetically based "intrinsic isolating mechanisms" that hold species apart.
(botany) A strain ofplant with characteristics causing it to differ from other plants of the samespecies.
Nevertheless, as our varieties certainly do occasionally revert in some of their characters to ancestral forms, it seems to me not improbable, that if we could succeed in naturalising, or were to cultivate, during many generations, the severalraces, for instance, of the cabbage, in very poor soil (in which case, however, some effect would have to be attributed to the direct action of the poor soil), that they would to a large extent, or even wholly, revert to the wild aboriginal stock.
1948 June, “Development ofRaces”, inWoody-Plant Seed Manual, Miscellaneous Publication no. 654, Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture,page15:
Treeraces develop not only in different latitudes, but also at different altitudes and within mountainous regions. Since climate changes markedly with altitude as well as latitude, both kinds of development are included in the term climaticraces. In addition, soil or siteraces may develop in areas similar climatically but characterized by different soil or site conditions.
1995 September 11–14, Loreen Allphin, Michael D[ennis] Windham, Kimball T[aylor] Harper, “A Genetic Evaluation of Three PotentialRaces of the Rare Kachina Daisy”, inSouthwestern Rare and Endangered Plants: Proceedings of the Second Conference, Flagstaff, Arizona,page75:
Our genetic evaluation suggests that the morphologically distinctrace (Dolores River) is more closely related to the type materials than the ecologically distinct, high-elevationrace.
They have another breed, called the Dunlop cows, which are allowed to be the bestrace for yielding milk in Great Britain or Ireland, not only for large quantities, but also for richness in quality.
1875, Augustus C. L. Arnold,The Living World, volume 1, Boston: Samuel Walker & Co,page88:
Great St. Bernard Dog—Thisrace is nearly allied to the Newfoundland Dog in form, stature, hair, and colors; but the head and ears are like that of a Water Spaniel.
1977 March 24, “Why is cereal fungus so resistant?”, inNew Scientist, volume73, number1044,page697:
Now Mary MacDonald of the Plant Breeding Institute at Maris Lane, Cambridge, has made an interesting study which has duplicated the conditions under which newraces arise. And she has produced at least one new fungalrace.
2018 December, Anna Kolobaeva, Olga Kotik, “Technological Approaches to Cider Quality”, inAdvances in Engineering Research[10], volume151, Atlantis Press,→DOI:
The type of microorganisms is a very important factor influencing the quality of cider. Yeast of various producers andraces result in different taste and flavor.
(The addition ofquotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)(by extension) Acategory orkind of thing distinguished by common characteristics.
Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, / Great chieftain o the puddin'-race!
(obsolete) Peculiarflavour,taste, orstrength, as ofwine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavour.
On the day following Elizabeth's interview with Gideon, this innocent relish—the olives which gave zest, or the walnuts which gaverace and richness, to Monkshaugh's moderate hebdomadal glass of old claret—was not forgotten.
So sang the poet in his pride of place, / And Arthur bade the pages plenish well / The cups of all the kings with wine ofrace, / Osaye or Algarde, Rhenish or Rochell, / Vernage of Venice, Rhodes or Famagust, / Sweet Malvoisie or Cretan Muscadel,—
1658,Edward Topsell, “Of the horse”, inThe History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents,page234:
It behooveth therefore that the Mares appointed forrace, 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.
1609,Ben Jonson,Epicœne, or The Silent Woman[12], act 3, scene 2:
Yes, madam, believe it, she is a gentlewoman of very absolute behaviour, and of a goodrace.
1785,Nathaniel William Wraxall, “Henry the Second”, inThe History of France Under the Kings of theRace of Valois, 2nd edition, volume 2, London: C. Dilly,pages52–53:
Wars of religion, more sanguinary, cruel, and ruinous than even those of Henry the fifth and Edward the third, rise in succession under the three last princes of therace of Valois.
We toiled not in the acquirement or establishment of them—they are a legacy bequeathed us, by a once hardy, brave, and patriotic, but now lamented and departedrace of ancestors.
1870,Charles Dickens, “The Nun's House”, inThe Mystery of Edwin Drood:
Perhaps this is the reason why it is an article of faith with the servants, handed down fromrace torace, that the departed Tisher was a hairdresser.
1929 December,Johnny Burke, “No Short Skirts To Their Knees”, inBurke's Popular Songs[15], St. John's, Newfoundland: Long Brothers:
For the old stock is fast dying out, Jennie, / And a youngrace is taking their place, / In our grandmothers' day they had sense, Jennie, / No powder or paints on their face.
Have I my pillow left unpressed in Rome, / Forborne the getting of a lawfulrace, / And by a gem of women, to be abused / By one that looks on feeders?
1737,Richard Glover,Leonidas, book 2, Baltimore: Neal, Wills & Cole, published1814,page35:
The good man besought him. Let the king / Propitious hear a parent. In thy train / I have five sons. Ah! leave my eldest born, / Thy future vassal, to sustain my age!' / The tyrant fell reply'd. 'Presumptuous man, / Who art my slave, in this tremendous war, / Is not my person hazarded, myrace, / My consort?[']
There the passions cramp’d no longer shall have scope and breathing-space; / I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my duskyrace. / Iron-jointed, supple-sinew’d, they shall dive, and they shall run, / Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in the sun[.]
race (third-person singular simple presentraces,present participleracing,simple past and past participleraced)
Toassign a race to; to perceive as having a (usually specified) race.
1996,Philosophical Studies in Education, page151:
To beraced as black in the U.S. translates symbolically into being considered inferior to whites, lazy, immoral, boisterous, violent, and sexually promiscuous.
2006, Athena D. Mutua,Progressive Black Masculinities?, Routledge,→ISBN, page30:
From this perspective, the project of progressive blackness entails the edification of black people and the elimination of all forms of domination that limit this edification for all thoseraced as black.
2008, George Yancy,Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race, Rowman & Littlefield,→ISBN, page46:
By avoiding beingraced as white, whites are able to maintain the illusion that they have always been individuals, that they have always accomplished their achievements through merit alone.
2020 March 24, Sophie Lewis, “The coronavirus crisis shows it's time to abolish the family”, inopendemocracy.net[16]:
[T]he private family qua mode of social reproduction still, frankly, sucks. It genders, nationalizes andraces us. It norms us for productive work.
1738 [1728],Ephraim Chambers, “Race”, inCyclopaedia: Or, An Universal Dictionary Of Arts and Sciences[17], 2nd edition, London: D. Midwinter:
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 uſuallyraces more than the female,i. e. the young ones take more after the male than after the female.
I must have saffron to color the warden pies; mace; dates, none—that's out of my note; nutmegs, seven; arace or two of ginger, but that I may beg; four pounds of prunes, and as many of raisins o' th' sun.
They have onions and garlick, and some herbs and small roots for sallads; and in the southernmoft parts, ginger growing almost in every place; the largeraces whereof are there very excellently well preserved, as we may know by our tasting them in England.
1842, Gibbons Merle,The Domestic Dictionary and Housekeeper's Manual, page433:
On the third day after this second boiling, pour all the syrup into a pan, put theraces of ginger with it, and boil it up until the syrup adheres to the spoon.
c.1450, chapter 23, in Henry Benjamin Wheatley, editor,Merlin or the Early History of King Arthur, volume 2, Early English Text Society, published1899,page424:
[…]and after he be-heilde towarde the fier, and saugh the flesshe that the knaue hadde rosted that was tho I-nough, andraced 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;[…]
AsMiddle Frenchrasse "entirety of ancestors and descendants of the same family or people", from ca. 1480,spellingMiddle Frenchrace recorded in 1549, fromItalianrazza (13th century), of uncertain origin (more atrazza).
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