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Definition of Outrace
1. to run faster or farther than [v -RACED, -RACING, -RACES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outrace
Literary usage of Outrace
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1895)
"At stations within 100 miles of an origin, as recorded by seismographs, these
outrace the main disturbance — with which, however, they are invariably ..."
2. The Hereford Earthquake of December 17, 1896 by Charles Davison (1899)
"Hence, if all the observers had been constituted like the 91 above mentioned,
the sound would have appeared to them to outrace the shock, ..."
3. Seismology by John Milne (1908)
"At stations within 100 miles of an origin, as recorded by seismographs, these
outrace the main disturbance, with which, however, they are invariably ..."
4. ... The Hereford Earthquake of December 17, 1896: Considered in Relation to by Edward Greenly (1899)
"Hence, if all the observers had been constituted like the 91 above mentioned,
the sound would have appeared to them to outrace the shock, and the natural ..."
5. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1907)
"The bride and bridegroom start away first, preceded by the mounted guests and
followed by the cars of the other guests, whose object is to outrace each ..."
6. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1900)
"... been shown that the distance of an origin from a given station can be determined
either from the interval by which the preliminary tremors outrace the ..."
7. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1872)
"A good horse, if brought within a fair distance, can easily outrace them, but
they have better wind. From Kotro there are two roads that lead to ..."
8. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1906)
"... enabled New York to outrace Philadelphia and become the metropolis. Philadelphia
had the Delaware, and all the trade it could give, ..."
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