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razza — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • breed verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
  • race noun A contest to see who is fastest at reaching a goal.
  • ray noun A narrow beam of light or other radiation.
  • skate verb To glide over ice or a hard surface wearing skates.
  • stingray noun A flat-bodied ray with a whip-like tail bearing a venomous barb.
  • strain verb To injure a muscle or tendon by overstretching or overusing it.

Senses

razza is used for these senses in English:

  • breed A race or lineage; offspring or issue.
  • futtock (nautical) Any of the curved rib-like timbers that form the frame of a wooden ship.
  • ray Any of the superorder Batoidea of marine fish with flat bodies, large wing-like fins, and whip-like tails.
  • skate A fish of the family Rajidae in the superorder Batoidea (rays) which inhabit most seas. Skates generally have small heads with protruding muzzles, and wide fins attached to a flat body.
  • stingray Any of various large, venomous rays, of the orders Rajiformes and Myliobatiformes, having a barbed, whiplike tail.
  • strain (archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.

breed — full definition

  1. verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
  2. verb To keep and mate animals deliberately, aiming to produce specific traits in their offspring.
  3. verb To cause or lead to something, especially something negative, over time.
  4. noun A particular type of animal (or occasionally plant) within a species, produced through selective mating.

race — full definition

  1. noun A contest to see who is fastest at reaching a goal.
  2. noun A group of people classed together based on shared ancestry or physical characteristics.
  3. verb To compete to see who can get somewhere or finish something first.

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