Definition of “a race against time/the clock” - Learner’s Dictionary

Not all online dictionaries are designed with student learners in mind, but they contain definitions of university-level academic terms that young learners can not access. To avoid this problem, I will use Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary as a major resource to find student friendly definitions. It includes an easy and definitive definition specifically written for K - 12 students. Secondly, it allows me to focus attention on keywords within the definition, which will help them remember the meaning. I deliberately leave some of the most important keywords blank, as the students pay attention when discussing the definition. The following is an example of the latest vocabulary we discussed.

The first definition of "culture" in the Oxford dictionary is "art, literature, music, and other knowledge on specific societies or times" ("culture", a modern English dictionary of senior learners of Oxford University). Cultural anthropologist Raymond Williams believes that the term "culture" was originally used to refer to the cultivation of crops, and later to the cultivation of the human mind. Since the late eighteenth century, the noun of this process grew into a constitutive noun, in this noun it meant the generalization of "spirituality" and conveyed a unique human "lifestyle" (William).