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Rally vs Racing - What's the difference?

rally | racing |

As nouns the difference between rally and racing

is that rally is a demonstration; an event where people gather together to protest for or against a given cause while racing is the sport of competing in races.

As verbs the difference between rally and racing

is that rally is to collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite while racing is present participle of lang=en.

rally

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) ralier ((etyl) rallier), from (etyl) prefix .

Noun

(rallies)
  • A demonstration; an event where people gather together to protest for or against a given cause
  • (squash, table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving]] and [[score, scoring a point.
  • (motor racing) An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals. The winner is the driver who completes all stages with the shortest cumulative time.
  • (business, trading) A recovery after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
    • Hyponyms
    * (increase in value) (l)

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
  • To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite.
  • * Dryden
    • The Grecians rally , and their powers unite.
  • * Tillotson
    • Innumerable parts of matter chanced just then to rally together, and to form themselves into this new world.
  • To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
  • (business, trading) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
    • Synonyms
    * (l) * (increase in value) (l), (l)
    Antonyms
    * (increase in value) (l)
    Derived terms
    * rallying point

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) railler. See .

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.
  • * Addison
    • Honeycomb raillies me upon a country life.
  • * Gay
    • Strephon had long confessed his amorous pain / Which gay Corinna rallied with disdain.

    Noun

    (-)
  • Good-humoured raillery.

    • References

    * ----

    racing

    English

    (wikipedia racing)

    Noun

  • The sport of competing in races.
  • * 1870 , Delabere Pritchett Blaine, An encyclopaedia of rural sports (page 231)
    • Chariot racings are probably, however, those in which the horse first distinguished himself as a courser, and we believe our earliest notices on the subject point to those of Persia, which were practised at the sacrifices made to the sun

    Derived terms

    * auto racing * car racing * automobile racing * motor racing * horse racing * drag racing * street racing

    Verb

    (head)

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