📖 Определения и значения для слова race
📒 a competition between people, animals, vehicles, etc. to see which one is the faster or fastest
- a boat/horse race
- a five-kilometre road race
- Who won the race?
📒 a situation in which a number of people, groups, organizations, etc. are competing, especially for political power or to achieve something first
- race for something Who will win the race for the White House?
- race to do something The race is on (= has begun) to find a cure for the disease.
- race between A and B The 1960 election was a close race between Nixon and Kennedy.
📒 a series of horse races that happen at one place on a particular day
- to go to the races
- We had a great day at the races.
📒 one of the main groups that humans can be divided into according to their physical differences, for example the colour of their skin; the fact of belonging to one of these groups
- This custom is found in people of all races throughout the world.
- legislation against discrimination on the grounds of race or gender
- Race is a major issue in this election.
📒 a group of people who share the same language, history, culture, etc.
- the Nordic races
- He admired Canadians as a hardy and determined race.
- Evidence suggests they were a race of nomadic hunters.
📒 a breed or type of animal or plant
- a race of cattle
📒 to be involved in a situation so that you will gain or lose according to the result
- I really don't have a dog in this fight, so I can just enjoy the game.
- The employees have a dog in the hunt, so their views should be listened to.
📒 a competition or an election in which there are only one, two, etc. teams or candidates with a chance of winning
- The women’s competition was a two horse race between last year’s winners Surrey and the previous champions Essex.
📒 a situation in which you have to do something or finish something very fast before it is too late
- Getting food to the starving refugees is now a race against time.
📒 a situation in which companies and countries compete with each other to produce goods as cheaply as possible by paying low wages and giving workers poor conditions and few rights
- They are caught in the cheap food syndrome, the race to the bottom, the chase for the lowest cost of production globally.