Race refers to a contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective. Example: Several horses run in a horse race, and the first one to reach the finishing post wins. It commonly describes swift progress; rapid motion; an instance of moving or driving at high speed, a race condition, and a progressive movement toward a goal, which gives the term a broader and more practical sense than a single short definition would suggest. Depending on context, it can also point to a fast-moving current of water, such as that which powers a mill wheel, a water channel, esp. one built to lead water to or from a point where it is utilised, and competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life, so the category can cover literal uses, related ideas, and more figurative extensions of the same core meaning. Taken together, these meanings present Race as a flexible theme rather than a narrowly technical label, covering the central idea people usually mean when they use the word while still leaving room for closely related senses that appear in real language. Additional shades of meaning include the bushings of a rolling element bearing which contacts the rolling elements, a group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics:, 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, and 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), which reinforce how the category can stretch across adjacent but still recognizable uses of the same term.
