Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A course or track for racing, especially harness racing.
- noun A tube that encloses and protects electric wires.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An artificial passage for water flowing from a fall or dam; a mill-race. Compare
mill-race . Seerace . - noun in fish-culture, a fishway.
- noun In a composing-machine, a space into which type drops; a device for carrying type along.
- noun A protecting tube or other inclosure surrounding electric wires within a subway or conduit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A place where
races are held. Aracetrack . - noun An easily-accessible conduit or tray for organizing runs of data or power cabling.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a course over which races are run
- noun a canal for a current of water
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Examples
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The PGP raceway is a competitive go-kart track that Daab says reminds him of the Zolder, Belgium, course.
Single-speed ‘crossers head to “world championships” in Washington 2010
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The two pick up trucks, a 1995 Ford F-150 and a 1971 Ford F-100, are currently delivered to Top Gun Raceway for each racing event to be used by the Fallon / Churchill Volunteer Fire Department for emergency use at the raceway, which is owned by the county.
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The two pick up trucks, a 1995 Ford F-150 and a 1971 Ford F-100, are currently delivered to Top Gun Raceway for each racing event to be used by the Fallon / Churchill Volunteer Fire Department for emergency use at the raceway, which is owned by the county.
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He also will oversee the construction of a pedestrian bridge over the "raceway" portion of the nursery that leads into the Lehigh Parkway so that visitors will not have to walk onto the precarious berm of Fish Hatchery Road to make their way into the parkway.
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He also will oversee the construction of a pedestrian bridge over the "raceway" portion of the nursery that leads into the Lehigh Parkway so that visitors will not have to walk onto the precarious berm of Fish Hatchery Road to make their way into the parkway.
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That said: he bet the zone is correct and that either an accident/near accident or complaints that a section of road so near a school zone had become a "raceway" lead to putting a cop there to slow traffic down.
Wired Campus 2010
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He also will oversee the construction of a pedestrian bridge over the "raceway" portion of the nursery that leads into the Lehigh Parkway so that visitors will not have to walk onto the precarious berm of Fish Hatchery Road to make their way into the parkway.
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He also will oversee the construction of a pedestrian bridge over the "raceway" portion of the nursery that leads into the Lehigh Parkway so that visitors will not have to walk onto the precarious berm of Fish Hatchery Road to make their way into the parkway.
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As for the closings being because of a safety issue, she said it would be safer to keep Daugherty open, as South Street would become a "raceway" because traffic would be rerouted there.
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MRI recently activated an open pond "raceway" cultivation system at its laboratory in Palm Bay, Fla., and a continuous flow, closed loop photobioreactor at its field station near Kansas City, Mo.
Energy News - Energy Technology - Energy Business - Energy and the Environment 2009
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