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(contest) A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective.

Swift progress; rapid motion; an instance of moving or driving at high speed.

(computing) A race condition; a bug or problem that occurs when two or more components attempt to use the same resource at the same time.

A sequence of events; a progressive movement toward a goal.

A fast-moving current of water.

(channel) A water channel, especially one built to lead water to or from a point where it is utilised, such as that which powers a millwheel.

A path that something or someone moves along.

A guide or channel that a component of a machine moves along:

(weaving) A groove on a sewing machine or a loom along which the shuttle moves.

(bearing)(engineering) A ring with a groove in which rolling elements (such as balls) ride, forming part of a rolling-element bearing (for example, a ball bearing).

(gambling) A keno gambling session.

To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).

To compete against in a race (contest).

(highspeed)To move or drive at high speed; to hurry or speed.

(of a motor) To run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.

(Q3254959) A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics (see Wikipedia's article on (historical definitions of race)):

A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.

A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of common physical characteristics, such as skin color or hair type.

A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of shared characteristics or qualities, for example social qualities.

(mythology) A large group of nonhumans distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.

A group of organisms distinguished by common characteristics; often an informal infraspecific rank in taxonomy, below species:

(biology) A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly different characteristics; a mating group.

(plant)(botany) A strain of plant with characteristics causing it to differ from other plants of the same species.

(domestic)(animal husbandry) A breed or strain of domesticated animal.

(bacteriology) A strain of microorganism, fungi, etc.

(by extension) A category or kind of thing distinguished by common characteristics.

(wine)(obsolete) Peculiar flavour, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavour.

(obsolete) Characteristic quality or disposition.

(obsolete) The sexual activity of conceiving and bearing biological offspring.

Ancestry, lineage.

(obsolete) A step in a lineage or succession; a generation.

Progeny, offspring, descendants.

To assign a race to; to perceive as having a (usually specified) race.

(obsolete) To pass down certain phenotypic traits to offspring.

(ginger)(botany) A rhizome or root, ''especially'' of ginger. +

(archaic) To sharpen (a grindstone) by scraping its surface.

(raze).

(marks)(West Country) To cut, scratch, or tear (someone or something) with a sharp object; to lacerate, to slash; specifically (nautical), to make marks on (something, such as a piece of wood) using a race knife.

(obsolete) To physically destroy; to obliterate:

# To level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.

# (path)(rare) To make (a path or way) through something by cutting or tearing.

# (footwear) To make a cut or slash in (an item of clothing or footwear) as a decoration.

(erase)(obsolete) To erase; to delete; to edit:

# To alter (a document) by erasing parts of it.

# (figurative) To erase (a record, text, etc.), originally by scraping; to rub out, to scratch out.

# (figurative) To completely remove (someone or something), especially from a place, a situation, etc.; also, to remove from existence; to destroy, to obliterate.

(obsolete) To pluck or snatch (something); also, to pull (something).