Race vs Blood - What's the difference?
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A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective. Several horses run in a horse race , and the first one to reach the finishing post wins
* 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/sports/new-york-city-marathon-will-not-be-held-sunday.html?hp&_r=0]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):
A progressive movement toward a goal.
A fast-moving current of water, such as that which powers a mill wheel.
Swift progress; rapid course; a running.
* Francis Bacon
Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
* Milton
Travels, runs, or journeys. (rfex)
The bushings of a rolling element bearing which contacts the rolling elements.
To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).
To compete against in such a race.
To move or drive at high speed.
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* 1891 (December) (Arthur Conan Doyle), The Man with the Twisted Lip :
A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common heritage or characteristics:
# A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.
#* 1913', Martin Van Buren Knox, ''The religious life of the Anglo-Saxon '''race
# A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of common physical characteristics, such as skin color or hair type.
# (controversial usage) One of the categories from the many subcategorizations of the human species. See Wikipedia's article on .
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# A large group of sentient beings distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage .
#* 1898 , Herman Isidore Stern, The gods of our fathers: a study of Saxon mythology , page 15)
(biology) A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly different characteristics; (an informal term for) a subspecies.
A breed or strain of domesticated animal.
* Shakespeare
(figuratively) A category or species of something that has emerged or evolved from an older one (with an implied parallel to animal breeding or evolutionary science).
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.
* Shakespeare
* Massinger
Characteristic quality or disposition.
* Shakespeare
* Sir W. Temple
A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.
* 1842 , Gibbons Merle, The Domestic Dictionary and Housekeeper's Manual , page 433:
A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.
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A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption. (See blood relative, blood relation, by blood.)
* (Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)
* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
A blood test or blood sample.
The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
* 1841 , Benjamin Parsons,
* 1901 , Levi Leslie Lamborn, American Carnation Culture , fourth edition, page 57:
* 1916 , John Gordon Dorrance, The Story of the Forest , page 44:
(label) The juice of anything, especially if red.
* Bible, (w) xiix. 11
(label) Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) A lively, showy man; a rake.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (William Makepeace Thackeray) (1811-1863)
(member of a certain gang).
To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.
To let blood (from); to bleed.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 121:
To initiate into warfare or a blood sport.
As nouns the difference between race and blood
is that race is a contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective. Several horses run in a horse race, and the first one to reach the finishing post wins while blood is a vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.As verbs the difference between race and blood
is that race is to take part in a race (in the sense of a contest) while blood is to cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.race
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) , (etyl) and (etyl) (m).Noun
(racing)- The race around the park was won by Johnny, who ran faster than the others.
- We had a race to see who could finish the book the quickest.
- After days of intensifying pressure from runners, politicians and the general public to call off the New York City Marathon in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, city officials and the event’s organizers decided Friday afternoon to cancel the race .
- The flight of many birds is swifter than the race of any beasts.
- My race' of glory run, and ' race of shame.
Derived terms
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(rac)Chico Harlan
Japan pockets the subsidy …, passage=Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."}}
- "My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built."
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), of uncertain origin. According to philologist Gianfranco Contini,Devoto, Giacomo, Avviamento all'etimologia italiana , Mondadori. the Italian word comes from (etyl) (m) . Some authorities suggest derivation from (etyl) (m), (m), from earlier (m), . This, however, is difficult to support, since Italian (m) predates the Spanish word.Diez, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der romanischen Sprachen, "Razza." Another possible source is (etyl) . A fourth possibility is that the Italian razza'' derives from (etyl) ratio through an unattested intermediate form *''razzo .Noun
(wikipedia race)- Race was a significant issue during apartheid in South Africa.
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- The Native Americans colonized the New World in several waves from Asia, and thus they are considered part of the same Mongoloid race .
- A treaty was concluded between the race''' of elves and the '''race of men.
- There are two distinct races of gods known to Norse mythology[.]
- For do but note a wild and wanton herd, / Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, / Fetching mad bounds.
- The advent of the Internet has brought about a new race of entrepreneur.
- Recent developments in artificial intelligence has brought about a new race of robots that can perform household chores without supervision.
- a race of heaven
- Is it [the wine] of the right race ?
- And now I give my sensual race the rein.
- Some great race of fancy or judgment.
Synonyms
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(Terms derived from the noun "race") * * * * * *Etymology 3
From (etyl), from (etyl) (m).Noun
(en noun)- On the third day after this second boiling, pour all the syrup into a pan, put the races of ginger with it, and boil it up until the syrup adheres to the spoon.
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* '' Diez, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der romanischen Sprachen, "Razza." * Notes:blood
English
(wikipedia blood)Alternative forms
* bloud (obsolete)Noun
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}
citation, passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}
- a friend of our own blood
- to share the blood of Saxon royalty
Anti-Bacchus, page 95:
- It is no tautology to call the blood of the grape red or purple, because the juice of that fruit was sometimes white and sometimes black or dark. The arterial blood of our bodies is red, but the venous is called "black blood."
- Disbudding is merely a species of pruning, and should be done as soon as the lateral buds begin to develop on the cane. It diverts the flow of the plant's blood from many buds into one or a few, thus increasing the size of the flower, [...]
- Look at a leaf. On it are many little raised lines which reach out to all parts of the leaf and back to the stem and twig. These are "veins," full of the tree's blood . It is white and looks very much like water; [...]
- He washedhis clothes in the blood of grapes.
- when you perceive his blood inclined to mirth
- Seest thou nothow giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?
- It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood .