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race·way    Audio Help   [reys-wey] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.Chiefly British. a passage or channel for water, as a millrace.
2.a racetrack on which harness races are held.
3.Electricity. a channel for protecting and holding electrical wires and cables, esp. a metal rectangular tube used for such purposes.
4.Machinery. race1 (def. 11).

[Origin: 1820–30; race1 + way1]
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race 2    Audio Help   (rās)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. Sports
    1. A competition of speed, as in running or riding.
    2. races A series of such competitions held at a specified time on a regular course: a fan of the dog races.
    3. A strong or swift current of water.
    4. The channel of such a current.
    5. An artificial channel built to transport water and use its energy. Also called raceway.
  2. An extended competition in which participants struggle like runners to be the winner: the presidential race.
  3. Steady or rapid onward movement: the race of time.
    1. A strong or swift current of water.
    2. The channel of such a current.
    3. An artificial channel built to transport water and use its energy. Also called raceway.
  4. A groovelike part of a machine in which a moving part slides or rolls.
  5. See slipstream.

v.   raced, rac·ing, rac·es

v.   intr.
  1. Sports To compete in a contest of speed.
  2. To move rapidly or at top speed: We raced home. My heart was racing with fear.
  3. To run too rapidly due to decreased resistance or unnecessary provision of fuel: adjusted the idle to keep the engine from racing.

v.   tr.
  1. Sports
    1. To compete against in a race.
    2. To cause to compete in a race: She races horses for a living.
  2. To transport rapidly or at top speed; rush: raced the injured motorist to the hospital.
  3. To cause (an engine with the gears disengaged, for example) to run swiftly or too swiftly.


[Middle English ras, from Old Norse rās, rush, running; see ers- in Indo-European roots.]

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race·way    Audio Help   (rās'wā')  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A course or track for racing, especially harness racing.
  2. A tube that encloses and protects electric wires.
  3. See race2.

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raceway

noun
1. a canal for a current of water 
2. a course over which races are run [syn: racetrack

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