OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 2649

race

/ɹeɪs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
carrera
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.
The race to cure cancer
corredera
A guide or channel that a component of a machine moves along:
The chances of picking up an inner race fault are small unless the load direction of the bearing coincides with the location of the accelerometer.
These bearings do not employ a loading groove or filling slot but utilize an uninterrupted race groove containing the maximum number of balls that can be introduced by eccentric di…
Word forms
📚 noun • entry_id 2651

race

/ɹeɪs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
raza
A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics (see Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race):
I believe that the British race is the greatest of the governing races that the world has ever seen.
The Canadian race is one of the most vigorous on the globe.
Word forms
📚 noun • entry_id 2652

race

/ɹeɪs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
raíz
A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.
I must have saffron to color the warden pies; mace; dates, none—that's out of my note; nutmegs, seven; a race or two of ginger, but that I may beg; four pounds of prunes, and as ma…
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 large races whereof are there ver…
Phrases
No hay frases
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 2650

race

/ɹeɪs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
correr • rolear
To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).
Honesty raced up six lengths in front of Wandering Minstrel, turned, then raced past for the second, and lost his place at the hedge; some work followed to the plantation, but Hone…
The drivers were racing around the track.
acelerarse • carredear • carrerear • carrucar • embalarse
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.
Her heart was racing as she peered into the dimly lit room.