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noun
- A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.
- The Anglo-Saxon
- A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of common, genetically linked, physical characteristics, such as skin color or hair type.
- Race was a significant issue during apartheid in South Africa.
- (context, controversial usage) One of the categories from the many subcategorizations of the human species. See Wikipedia's article on w:Race_(historical_definitions), historical definitions of race.
- The Native Americans colonized the New World in several waves from Asia, and thus they are part of the same Mongoloid .
- (biology) A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly different characteristics; informal for subspecies.
- A breed or strain of domesticated animal.
- (figurative) 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 of entrepreneur.
- Recent developments in artificial intelligence has brought about a new of robots that can perform household chores without supervision.
verb (rac, ing)
- (intransitive) To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).
- (intransitive) To move or drive at high speed.
- As soon as it was time to go home, he raced for the door.
- Her heart was racing as she peered into the dimly lit room.
- (intransitive) Of a motor, to run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.
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noun
- a radial tire / radial tyre
adjective
- arranged like rays that radiate from, or converge to a common centre
- moving along a radius
- (anatomy) of, or relating to the radius bone
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noun (radii, pl2=radiuses)
- (anatomy) The long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb.
- (geometry) A line segment between any point on the circumference of a circle and its center/centre.
- (geometry) The length of this line segment.
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adjective
- unrestrained or unchecked.
- Weeds are in my garden.
- rife, or occurring widely, frequently or menacingly.
- There was corruption in the city.
- (heraldry): rearing on its hind legs.
- (architecture) of an arch, with one side higher than the other.
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noun (Plural: razorbacks)
- A term used in the southeastern US for a thin feral pig. The term is borderline slang but is used as the nickname for the University of Arkansas athletic teams.
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noun - An enzyme used as the first step in making cheese, to curdle the milk and coagulate the casein in it, derived by soaking the fourth stomach of a milk-fed calf in brine.
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proper noun
- (constellation) A small constellation of the southern summer sky, said to resemble a reticle. It lies between the constellations of Horologium and Dorado.
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noun
- the line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground
- a chain of hills or mountains
- a long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom
verb (ridg, ing)
- (transitive) to form into a ridge
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noun
- An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, -- used as an ornament or a badge.
- An ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, -much used in decoration.
- A red color. See roset.
- A rose burner. See under rose.
- Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins.
- A flowerlike color marking; as, the rosettes on the leopard.
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noun
- The first stomach of ruminants; the paunch; the fardingbag.
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| ruminant |
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noun
- An artiodactyl ungulate mammal which chews cud, such as a cow or deer.
adjective
- chewing cud
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verb (ruminat, ing)
- (intransitive) To chew cud. (Said of ruminants.) Involves regurgitate, regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen.
- A camel will just as a cow will.
- (intransitive) To meditate or reflect.
- I didn't answer right away because I needed to first.
- Are cows ruminating when they say "om" backwards, or when they stop to chew their cud?
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noun
- the hindquarters of an animal; a cut of beef or veal from the rump
- the buttocks
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| runt |
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noun
- the smallest animal of a litter
- (figurative) undersized or stunted plant, animal or person
- (computing) An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes.
- (context, typography) A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph.
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