pace
see also: PACE, Pace
Pronunciation
PACE
Proper noun
Pace
Proper noun
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see also: PACE, Pace
Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /peɪs/
pace (plural paces)
- Step.
- A step taken with the foot. [from 14th century]
- The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements. [from 14th century]
- 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.
- Way of stepping.
- Speed or velocity in general. [from 15th century]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938 ↗, book II, canto IX, stanza 14, page 311 ↗:
- 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.
- (cricket) A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing. [from 19th century]
- (collective) A group of donkeys.
- 1952, G. B. Stern, The Donkey Shoe, The Macmillan Company (1952), page 29:
- […] 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.
- 2006, "Drop the dead donkeys ↗", The Economist, 9 November 2006:
- A pace of donkeys fans out in different directions.
- 2007, Elinor De Wire, The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses, Pineapple Press (2007), ISBN 9781561643905, page 200 ↗:
- Like a small farm, the lighthouse compound had its chattering of chicks, pace of donkeys, troop of horses, and fold of sheep.
- 1952, G. B. Stern, The Donkey Shoe, The Macmillan Company (1952), page 29:
- (obsolete) Passage, route.
- (obsolete) One's journey or route. [14th-18th century]
- (obsolete) A passage through difficult terrain; a mountain pass or route vulnerable to ambush etc. [14th-17th century]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
- But when she saw them gone she forward went, / As lay her journey, through that perlous Pace [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
- (obsolete) An aisle in a church. [15th-19th century]
- Russian: по́ступь
- French: rythme, train, tempo
- German: Tempo, Geschwindigkeit
- Portuguese: passo, ritmo
- Russian: темп
- Spanish: paso, ritmo
pace (not comparable)
Verbpace (paces, present participle pacing; past and past participle paced)
- To walk back and forth in a small distance.
- 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V
- Groups of men, in all imaginable attitudes, were lying, standing, sitting, or pacing up and down.
- 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V
- To set the speed in a race.
- To measure by walking.
- French: arpenter, faire les cent pas
- Russian: шага́ть
- Russian: задава́ть темп
- French: arpenter
- Russian: измеря́ть шага́ми
- (formal) With all due respect to.
- Russian: при всём уваже́нии
- Spanish: con el debido respeto, con todo respeto
pace (plural paces)
PACE
Proper noun
- Acronym of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
- (British) Acronym of
- (US, labor union) Acronym of Paper, Allied Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers International Union
- Russian: ПАСЕ
Pace
Proper noun
- Surname
- A census-designated place in Florida.
- A town in Mississippi.
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