Race vs Cast - What's the difference?

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As a verb race

is .

As an adjective race

is distinguished; classy.

As a noun cast is

moment or cast can be luck, fortune.

race

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) , (etyl) and (etyl) (m).

Noun

(racing)

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

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.

* 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):

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 .

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

The flight of many birds is swifter than the race of any beasts.

Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.

* Milton

My race' of glory run, and ' race of shame.

Travels, runs, or journeys. (rfex)

The bushings of a rolling element bearing which contacts the rolling elements.

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Verb

(rac)

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.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author= Chico Harlan

, volume=189, issue=2, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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."}}

Of a motor, to run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.

* 1891 (December) (Arthur Conan Doyle), The Man with the Twisted Lip :

"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)

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.

Race was a significant issue during apartheid in South Africa.

# (controversial usage) One of the categories from the many subcategorizations of the human species. See Wikipedia's article on .

#* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April

, author=(Jan Sapp) , title=Race Finished , volume=100, issue=2, page=164 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race'. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by ' race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}

The Native Americans colonized the New World in several waves from Asia, and thus they are considered part of the same Mongoloid race .

# A large group of sentient beings distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage .

A treaty was concluded between the race''' of elves and the '''race of men.

#* 1898 , Herman Isidore Stern, The gods of our fathers: a study of Saxon mythology , page 15)

There are two distinct races of gods known to Norse mythology[.]

(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

For do but note a wild and wanton herd, / Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, / Fetching mad bounds.

(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).

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.

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

a race of heaven

* Massinger

Is it [the wine] of the right race ?

Characteristic quality or disposition.

* Shakespeare

And now I give my sensual race the rein.

* Sir W. Temple

Some great race of fancy or judgment.

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Etymology 3

From (etyl), from (etyl) (m).

Noun

(en noun)

A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.

* 1842 , Gibbons Merle, The Domestic Dictionary and Housekeeper's Manual , page 433:

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: English terms with multiple etymologies ----

cast

English

Verb

To move, or be moved, away.

#* c. 1430' (reprinted '''1888 ), Thomas Austin, ed., ''Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: 374760, page 11:

Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke

#*1623 , (William Shakespeare), (The Two Gentlemen of Verona) :

#*:Why then a Ladder quaintly made of Cords / To cast vp, with a paire of anchoring hookes, / Would serue to scale another Hero's towre.

#*1760 , (Laurence Sterne), , p.262:

#*:The more, an' please your honour, the pity, said the Corporal; in uttering which, he cast his spade into the wheelbarrow.

#To throw forward (a fishing line, net etc.) into the sea.

#*1526 , (Bible) , tr. (William Tyndale), (w) 4:

#*:As Jesus walked by the see off Galile, he sawe two brethren: Simon which was called Peter, and Andrew his brother, castynge a neet into the see (for they were fisshers).

#Specifically, to throw down or aside.

#*, II.xii:

#*:So she to Guyon offred it to tast; / Who taking it out of her tender hond, / The cup to ground did violently cast , / That all in peeces it was broken fond.

#*1611 , (Bible) , Authorized Version, (w) VI.30:

#*:it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

#*1930 , "Sidar the Madman", Time , 19 Dec.:

#*:Near Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, Madman, co-pilot and plane were caught in a storm, cast into the Caribbean, drowned.

#*2009 , (Hilary Mantel), (Wolf Hall) , Fourth Estate, 2010, p.316:

#*:Her bow is not to her liking. In a temper, she casts it on the grass.

#(label) To throw off (the skin) as a process of growth; to shed the hair or fur of the coat.

#*1822 , "Life of Donald McBane", (w, Blackwood's Magazine) , vol.12, p.745:

#*:when the serjeant saw me, he cast his coat and put it on me, and they carried me on their shoulders to a village where the wounded were and our surgeons.

#*2002 , Jess Cartner-Morley, "How to Wear Clothes", The Guardian , 2 March:

#*:You know the saying, "Ne'er cast a clout till May is out"? Well, personally, I'm bored of my winter clothes by March.

#(label) To heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water.

#(label) To vomit.

#*(Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)

#*:These versesmake me ready to cast .

#(label) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.

#*(Bible), (w) xix.48

#*:Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee.

#(label) To throw out or emit; to exhale.

#* (1665-1728)

#*:Thiscasts a sulphureous smell.

To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.).

*1595 , (William Shakespeare), :

*:To whom do Lyons cast their gentle Lookes? Not to the Beast, that would vsurpe their Den.

*1813 , (Jane Austen), (Pride and Prejudice) , I.11:

*:She then yawned again, threw aside her book, and cast her eyes round the room in quest of some amusement.

*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1

, passage=But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.}}

To add up (a column of figures, accounts etc.); cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures.

*1594 , (William Shakespeare), :

*:The Clearke of Chartam: hee can write and / reade, and cast accompt.

*, II.17:

*:I cannot yet cast account either with penne or Counters.

*1719 , (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)

*:I cast up the notches on my post, and found I had been on shore three hundred and sixty-five days.

To predict, to decide, to plan.

#(label) To calculate the astrological value of (a horoscope, birth etc.).

#*, vol.1, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.309:

#*:he isa perfect astrologer, that can cast the rise and fall of others, and mark their errant motions to his own use.

#*1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society, 2012, p.332:

#*:John Gadbury confessed that Mrs Cellier, ‘the Popish Midwife’, had asked him to cast the King's nativity, although the astrology claimed to have refused to do so.

#*1985 , (Lawrence Durrell), (Quinx) , Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p.1197:

#*:He did the washing up and stayed behind to watch the dinner cook while she hopped off with a friend to have her horoscope cast by another friend.

#(label) To plan, intend.

#*, Book VII.2:

#*:"Fayre damesell, I thanke you hartely," seyde Sir Launcelot, "but truly," seyde he, "I caste me never to be wedded man."

#*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.i:

#*:I wrapt my selfe in Palmers weed, / And cast to seeke him forth through daunger and great dreed.

#* (1628–1699)

#*:The cloisterhad, I doubt not, been cast for [an orange-house].

#(label) To assign (a role in a play or performance).

#(label) To assign a role in a play or performance to (an actor).

#To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan.

#*(Bible), (w) i.29

#*:Shecast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.

#(label) To impose; to bestow; to rest.

#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:The government I cast upon my brother.

#*(Bible), (Psalms) iv. 22

#*:Cast thy burden upon the Lord.

#(label) To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict.

#* (1773-1850)

#*:She was cast to be hanged.

#*Dr. (Henry More) (1614-1687)

#*:Were the case referred to any competent judge, they would inevitably be cast .

#To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide.

#*(Robert South) (1634–1716)

#*:How much interest casts the balance in cases dubious!

To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).

To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction.

*1950 , "A Global View", Time , 24 April:

*:The threat of Russian barbarism sweeping over the free world will cast its ominous shadow over us for many, many years.

*1960 , (Lawrence Durrell), :

*:A sudden thought cast a gloom over his countenance.

(label) To give birth to (a child) prematurely; to miscarry.

*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.98:

*:being with childe, they may without feare of accusation, spoyle and cast their children, with certaine medicaments, which they have only for that purpose.

*1646 , Sir (Thomas Browne), (Pseudodoxia Epidemica) , V.20:

*:The abortion of a woman they describe by an horse kicking a wolf; because a mare will cast her foal if she tread in the track of that animal.

To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way.

*1923 , "Rodin's Death", Time , 24 March:

*:One copy of the magnificent caveman, The Thinker, of which Rodin cast several examples in bronze, is seated now in front of the Detroit Museum of Art, where it was placed last autumn.

# To stereotype or electrotype.

To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.).

*(Joseph Moxon) (1627-1691)

*:Stuff is said to cast or warp whenit alters its flatness or straightness.

(label) To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by use of the headsail; to bring (a ship) round.

To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote).

(label) To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.

(label) Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent.

*1955 , (William Golding), , Faber and Faber, 2005, p.50:

*:He clambered on to an apron of rock that held its area out to the sun and began to cast across it. The direction of the wind changed and the scent touched him again.

(label) To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.

(some are still missing examples)

(label) To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches.

Derived terms

* cast away * cast iron * cast off * cast on * castable * casting call * casting couch * casting director * cast the first stone * continuous casting * cross-cast * ne'er cast a clout til May be out * the die is cast

Noun

(en noun)

An act of throwing.

Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.

* Dryden

a cast of dreadful dust

A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.

The area near the stream was covered with little bubbly worm casts .''

The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.

He’s in the cast of Oliver.

The cast was praised for a fine performance.

The casting procedure.

The men got into position for the cast , two at the ladle, two with long rods, all with heavy clothing.

An object made in a mould.

The cast would need a great deal of machining to become a recognizable finished part.

A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.

The doctor put a cast on the boy’s broken arm.

The mould used to make cast objects

A plaster cast was made of his face .

(hawking) The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.7:

As when a cast of Faulcons make their flight / An an Herneshaw, that lyes aloft on wing […].

A squint.

* 1847 , John Churchill, A manual of the principles and practice of ophthalmic medicine and surgery , p. 389, paragraph 1968:

The image of the affected eye is clearer and in consequence the diplopy more striking the less the cast of the eye; hence the double vision will be noticed by the patient before the misdirection of the eye attracts the attention of those about him.

* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 7:

Arriving in Brittany, the Woodville exiles found a sallow young man, with dark hair curled in the shoulder-length fashion of the time and a penchant for expensively dyed black clothes, whose steady gaze was made more disconcerting by a cast in his left eye – such that while one eye looked at you, the other searched for you.

Visual appearance.

Her features had a delicate cast to them.

The form of one's thoughts, mind etc.

* 1992 , (Hilary Mantel), A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 330:

I have read all her articles and come to admire both her elegant turn of phrase and the noble cast of mind which inspires it; but never, I confess, did I look to see beauty and wit so perfectly united.

An animal, especially a horse, that is unable to rise without assistance.

Animal and insect remains which have been regurgitated by a bird.

A group of crabs.

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Race vs Cast - What's the difference?

As a verb race

As an adjective race

As a noun cast is

race

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