Pacenoun
(obsolete) Passage, route.
Pacingnoun
The act of moving in paces, or their arrangement or timing.
Pacenoun
(obsolete) One's journey or route.
Pacingnoun
the speed at which a composition is to be played.
Pacenoun
(obsolete) A passage through difficult terrain; a mountain pass or route vulnerable to ambush etc.
Pacingnoun
(music) the speed at which a composition is to be played
Pacenoun
(obsolete) An aisle in a church.
Pacingnoun
walking with slow regular strides
Pacenoun
Step.
Pacenoun
A step taken with the foot.
Pacenoun
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.’; ‘I have perambulated your field, and estimate its perimeter to be 219 paces.’;
Pacenoun
Way of stepping.
Pacenoun
A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet.
Pacenoun
Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait.
Pacenoun
Speed or velocity in general.
Pacenoun
(cricket) A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing.
Pacenoun
A group of donkeys. The collective noun for donkeys.
Pacenoun
Easter.
Paceadjective
(cricket) Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls.
Paceverb
Walk to and fro in a small space.
Paceverb
Set the speed in a race.
Paceverb
Measure by walking.
Pacepreposition
(formal) With all due respect to.
Pacenoun
A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.
Pacenoun
The length of a step in walking or marching, reckoned from the heel of one foot to the heel of the other; - used as a unit in measuring distances; as, he advanced fifty paces.
Pacenoun
Manner of stepping or moving; gait; walk; as, the walk, trot, canter, gallop, and amble are paces of the horse; a swaggering pace; a quick pace.
‘To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day.’; ‘In the military schools of riding a variety of paces are taught.’;
Pacenoun
A slow gait; a footpace.
Pacenoun
Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack.
Pacenoun
Any single movement, step, or procedure.
‘The first pace necessary for his majesty to make is to fall into confidence with Spain.’;
Pacenoun
A broad step or platform; any part of a floor slightly raised above the rest, as around an altar, or at the upper end of a hall.
Pacenoun
A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web.
Pacenoun
The rate of progress of any process or activity; as, the students ran at a rapid pace; the plants grew at a remarkable pace.
Paceverb
To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps.
Paceverb
To proceed; to pass on.
‘Or [ere] that I further in this tale pace.’;
Paceverb
To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack.
Paceverb
To pass away; to die.
Paceverb
To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round.
Paceverb
To measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of ground. Often used with out; as, to pace out the distance.
Paceverb
To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in.
‘If you can, pace your wisdomIn that good path that I would wish it go.’;
Pacenoun
the rate of moving (especially walking or running)
Pacenoun
the distance covered by a step;
‘he stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig’;
Pacenoun
the relative speed of progress or change;
‘he lived at a fast pace’; ‘he works at a great rate’; ‘the pace of events accelerated’;
Pacenoun
a step in walking or running
Pacenoun
the rate of some repeating event
Pacenoun
a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
Paceverb
walk with slow or fast paces;
‘He paced up and down the hall’;
Paceverb
go at a pace;
‘The horse paced’;
Paceverb
measure (distances) by pacing;
‘step off ten yards’;
Paceverb
regulate or set the pace of;
‘Pace your efforts’;
Pacenoun
a single step taken when walking or running
‘Kirov stepped back a pace’;
Pacenoun
a unit of length representing the distance between two successive steps in walking
‘her eyes could size up a lad's wallet at fifty paces’;
Pacenoun
a gait of a horse or other animal, especially one of the recognized trained gaits of a horse.
Pacenoun
a person's manner of walking or running
‘I steal with quiet pace’;
Pacenoun
speed in walking, running, or moving
‘he's an aggressive player with plenty of pace’; ‘the ring road allows traffic to flow at a remarkably fast pace’;
Pacenoun
the speed or rate at which something happens or develops
‘the story rips along at a cracking pace’; ‘the industrial boom gathered pace’;
Pacenoun
the state of a wicket as affecting the speed of the ball
‘he can cope with the pace of the Australian wickets’;
Paceverb
walk at a steady speed, especially without a particular destination and as an expression of anxiety or annoyance
‘we paced up and down in exasperation’; ‘she had been pacing the room’;
Paceverb
measure (a distance) by walking it and counting the number of steps taken
‘I paced out the dimensions of my new home’;
Paceverb
(of a trained horse) move in a distinctive lateral gait in which both legs on the same side are lifted together
‘he will suddenly pace for a few steps, then go back into normal walk’;
Paceverb
move or develop (something) at a particular rate or speed
‘our fast-paced daily lives’; ‘the action is paced to the beat of a perky march’;
Paceverb
lead (another runner in a race) in order to establish a competitive speed
‘McKenna paced us for four miles’;
Paceverb
do something at a slow and steady rate in order to avoid overexertion
‘Frank was pacing himself for the long night ahead’;
Pacepreposition
with due respect to (someone or their opinion), used to express polite disagreement or contradiction
‘narrative history, pace some theorists, is by no means dead’;
