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Substantiivi

1. A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective.
2. (botany) A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.
3. A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics (see Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race):
4. Swift progress; rapid motion; an instance of moving or driving at high speed.
5. A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.
6. (electronics, 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.
7. A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of common physical characteristics, such as skin color or hair type.
8. A sequence of events; a progressive movement toward a goal.
9. A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of shared characteristics or qualities, for example social qualities.
10. (fantasy, science fiction, mythology) A large group of nonhumans distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.
11. A fast-moving current of water.
12. A group of organisms distinguished by common characteristics; often an informal infraspecific rank in taxonomy, below species:
13. 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.
14. A path that something or someone moves along.
15. (biology) A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly different characteristics; a mating group.
16. A guide or channel that a component of a machine moves along:
17. (botany) A strain of plant with characteristics causing it to differ from other plants of the same species.
18. (sewing, weaving) A groove on a sewing machine or a loom along which the shuttle moves.
19. (animal husbandry) A breed or strain of domesticated animal.
20. (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).
21. (mycology, bacteriology) A strain of microorganism, fungi, etc.
22. (by extension) A category or kind of thing distinguished by common characteristics.
23. (gambling) A keno gambling session.
24. (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.
25. (obsolete) Characteristic quality or disposition.
26. (obsolete) The sexual activity of conceiving and bearing biological offspring.
27. (archaic, uncountable) Ancestry, lineage.
28. (obsolete) A step in a lineage or succession; a generation.
29. (obsolete, uncountable) Progeny, offspring, descendants.

Verbi

1. (transitive, obsolete) To pluck or snatch (something); also, to pull (something).
2. (archaic) To sharpen (a grindstone) by scraping its surface.
3. To assign a race to; to perceive as having a (usually specified) race.
4. (intransitive) To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).
5. (obsolete) To pass down certain phenotypic traits to offspring.
6. (transitive) To compete against in a race (contest).
7. (intransitive) To move or drive at high speed; to hurry or speed.
8. (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.
9. (obsolete) To physically destroy; to obliterate:
10. (intransitive, of a motor) To run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.
11. To level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.
12. (rare) To make (a path or way) through something by cutting or tearing.
13. (clothing, footwear) To make a cut or slash in (an item of clothing or footwear) as a decoration.
14. (obsolete) To erase; to delete; to edit:
15. To alter (a document) by erasing parts of it.
16. (also, figurative) To erase (a record, text, etc.), originally by scraping; to rub out, to scratch out.
17. (figurative) To completely remove (someone or something), especially from a place, a situation, etc.; also, to remove from existence; to destroy, to obliterate.