Race

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Race has very many meanings in English. It can mean:

  • To go very fast – he raced to the store
  • A competition between people - the race for the US presidency
  • Racing, a competition about speed – the Tour de France is an important bicycle race
  • In biology a group smaller than a species. Races can have sex and make babies, but they are separate (usually because they live in different places) - a large race of birds lives on this island
  • A way of dividing people based on some characteristic. The characteristic is normally a thing that can be seen. For example: skin color, hair, and facial features – he suffered racial discrimination because he was black
  • The human race means all people - the human race is destroying the environment
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