English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of race

race

/noun/ दौड़; जाति; वंश; वर्ग; प्रजाती; संतति; कुल; तीव्र जलधारा; रेस;
/verb/वेग से दौड़ना; तेज दौड़ना;

Synonym races; caste; seed; square; offspring; aggregate;

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English Dictionary:

1. Race

[n.]

- A root.
- The descendants of a common ancestor; a family, tribe, people, or nation, believed or presumed to belong to the same stock; a lineage; a breed.
- Company; herd; breed.
- A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed.
- Peculiar flavor, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavor; smack.
- Hence, characteristic quality or disposition.
- A progress; a course; a movement or progression.
- Esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running.
- Hence: The act or process of running in competition; a contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding, driving, skating, rowing, sailing; in the plural, usually, a meeting for contests in the running of horses; as, he attended the races.
- Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
- A strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or passage for such a current; a powerful current or heavy sea, sometimes produced by the meeting of two tides; as, the Portland Race; the Race of Alderney.
- The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race.
- A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc.

2. Race

[v. i.]

- To run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port.
- To run too fast at times, as a marine engine or screw, when the screw is lifted out of water by the action of a heavy sea.

3. Race

[v. t.]

- To raze.
- To cause to contend in a race; to drive at high speed; as, to race horses.
- To run a race with.