Pace
adj, name, noun, prep, verb ·Very common ·Middle school level
Definitions
- 1 A step.; A step taken with the foot.
- 2 Easter.
- 3 a step in walking or running wordnet
- 4 A step.; The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements.
"Even at the duel, standing 10 paces apart, he could have satisfied Aaron’s honor."
- 5 the relative speed of progress or change wordnet
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- 6 A way of stepping.; A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet.
"Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation."
- 7 a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride wordnet
- 8 A way of stepping.; Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait.
- 9 the distance covered by a step wordnet
- 10 Speed or velocity in general.
"For with ſuch puiſſance and impetuous maine / Thoſe Champions broke on them, that forſt the fly, / Like ſcattered Sheepe, whenas the Shepherds ſwaine / A Lyon and a Tigre doth eſpye, / With greedy pace forth ruſhing from the foreſt nye."
- 11 the rate of moving (especially walking or running) wordnet
- 12 A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing.
"He didn't bowl a lot of pace in the first T20I."
- 13 the rate of some repeating event wordnet
- 14 A group of donkeys. collective
"[…] but at Broadstairs and other places along the coast, a pace of donkeys stood on the sea-shore expectant (at least, their owners were expectant) of children clamouring to ride."
- 15 A passage, a route.; One's journey or route. obsolete
- 16 A passage, a route.; A passage through difficult terrain; a mountain pass or route vulnerable to ambush etc. obsolete
"But when she saw them gone she forward went, / As lay her journey, through that perlous Pace [...]."
- 17 A passage, a route.; An aisle in a church. obsolete
- 1 To walk back and forth in a small distance.
"Groups of men, in all imaginable attitudes, were lying, standing, sitting, or pacing up and down."
- 2 measure (distances) by pacing wordnet
- 3 To set the speed in a race.
"The clubs in London, Manchester, Birmingham, etc., hold various track meetings for races varying from one mile to fifty miles, the longer distances being sometimes paced by tandems."
- 4 regulate or set the pace of wordnet
- 5 To measure by walking.
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- 6 walk with slow or fast paces wordnet
- 7 go at a pace wordnet
- 1 Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls. not-comparable
- 1 With all due respect to. formal
"She is marvelous here, but he (pace many critics) is no bumpkin"
- 1 Acronym of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
- 2 A surname.
- 3 Acronym of Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. UK, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
- 4 A census-designated place in Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States.
- 5 Acronym of Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers International Union. US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
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- 6 A town in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States.
Example
More examples"Why don't we drive out to the country for a change of pace?"
Etymology
From Middle English pase, from Anglo-Norman pas, Old French pas, and their source, Latin passus. Doublet of pas and fathom; compare also pass. Cognate with Spanish pasear.
From Latin pāce (“in peace”), ablative form of pāx (“peace”).
Alteration of archaic Pasch.