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pace¹

  • /peɪs/ UK, US

Rhymes with -eɪs

Where it comes from

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 pass, Spanish pasear, paso.

noun paces

  1. A step taken with the foot.
  2. 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.
  3. A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet. We set off at a round pace.
  4. Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. collective A group of donkeys (asses). […] 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.
  8. obsolete One's journey or route.
  9. obsolete A passage through difficult terrain; a mountain pass or route vulnerable to ambush etc. But when she saw them gone she forward went, / As lay her journey, through that perlous Pace [...].
  10. obsolete An aisle in a church.

adjective

  1. not comparable Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls.

verb paces · pacing · paced

  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. To walk along or through sth with regular strides.
  3. To set the speed. I helped her train for the marathon by pacing her on a bike.
  4. To measure by walking.

pace²

  • /ˈpætʃeɪ/ UK
  • /ˈpɑːtʃeɪ/ UK
  • /ˈpeɪsiː/ UK

Where it comes from

From Latin pāce (“in peace”), ablative form of pāx (“peace”).

preposition

  1. formal With all due respect to. She is marvelous here, but he (pace many critics) is no bumpkin

pace³

  • /peɪs/

Where it comes from

Alteration of archaic Pasch.

noun paces

  1. Synonym of Easter.

PACE⁴

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, acronym Acronym of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
  2. UK, abbreviation, acronym Acronym of Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
  3. US, abbreviation, acronym Acronym of Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers International Union.Paper

Pace⁵

proper noun

  1. A surname.
  2. A census-designated place in Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States.
  3. A town in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States.

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