Betekenis van race In het Nederlands

• 0 a competition in which all the competitors try to be the fastest and to finish first:

  • Do you know who won/lost the race?

  • Let's have a swimming race.

  • They're taking part in a race to the top of Mont Blanc.

  • Kieran and Andrew are in a race for promotion.

  • [ + to infinitive ] Three newspapers are involved in a race to publish the story.

  • Another candidate has now entered the presidential race (= the attempt to be elected as president).

  • Finishing this project by December is going to be a race against time/the clock (= an attempt to finish fast within a time limit).

  • He often has a day at the races.

• 1 one of the main groups to which people are often considered to belong, based on physical characteristics that they are perceived to share such as skin colour, eye shape, etc.:

  • People of many different races were living side by side.

  • Discrimination on grounds of race will not be tolerated.

  • What they don't realize is that these issues transcend (= rise above) race. Anyone can be affected.

  • The British are an island race.

• 2 to (cause to) compete in a race:

  • He has been racing for over ten years.

  • I used to race (against) him when we were boys.

  • He's racing three of his dogs on Saturday.

• 3 to move or go fast:

  • He raced down the street.

  • The ambulance raced (= quickly took) the injured to a nearby hospital.

  • The summer seems to have raced by (= passed very quickly).

  • He raced the car engine (= made it work faster than it needed to) as he sat impatiently at the traffic lights.

• 4 a competition between people or animals to see who can get from the starting place to the finish before all the others:

  • a horse race

  • She won the 100-meter race in 11.06 seconds.

  • [ + to infinitive ] It was a race against time to get the project finished by Friday’s deadline.

  • The governor of California plans to enter the presidential race.

• 5 any social group into which humans can be divided according to perceived similarities in their physical characteristics:

  • [ U ] Discrimination because of race is against the law.

• 6 to compete in a race or run a race with someone:

  • [ I/T ] He’s been racing (cars) for over ten years.

  • [ I always + adv/prep ] The boys came racing across the playground.

  • [ I always + adv/prep ] Last summer seemed to race by.