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 pass, Spanish pasear, paso.
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.
› A way of stepping.
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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.2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport:
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Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait.
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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.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 14, page 311:
The fastest women runners can run a mile in well under five minutes, but in order to reach that goal they've had to train at a much slower pace over thousands of miles.1983, Kathryn Lance, Running for Health, Bantam, →ISBN:
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Ball games, Cricket, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports 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.
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Collective A group of donkeys.
[…] 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.1952, G. B. Stern, The Donkey Shoe, The Macmillan Company, published 1952, page 29:
A pace of donkeys fans out in different directions.2006 November 9, “Drop the dead donkeys”, in The Economist:
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Like a small farm, the lighthouse compound had its chattering of chicks, pace of donkeys, troop of horses, and fold of sheep.2007, Elinor De Wire, The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses, Pineapple Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 200:
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 [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
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 pass, Spanish pasear, paso.
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 pass, Spanish pasear, paso.
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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.1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Chapter V:
As we stood waiting for the departure time with the setting sun twinkling on the great brass dome of our 2-4-0, the sound of church bells was the only one apart from the measured tread of the guard slowly pacing towards his van, and, standing at an open window, I more than once heard the fireman's "Right away!" to his mate in acknowledgement of a desultory wave of the unfurled green flag.1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, page 19:
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To walk along or through sth with regular strides.
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To set the speed.
I helped her train for the marathon by pacing her on a bike.
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.1921, W. F. Grew, The Cycle Industry, London, page 70: