pace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /peɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: paces
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.
Senses: glosses: A step.
A step taken with the foot.
examples: text: Even at the duel, standing 10 paces apart, he could have satisfied Aaron’s honor.
text: I have perambulated your field, and estimate its perimeter to be 219 paces.
glosses: A step.
The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements.
examples: text: Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation.
ref: 2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A way of stepping.
A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet.
glosses: A way of stepping.
Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 14, page 311:
text: 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.
ref: 1983, Kathryn Lance, Running for Health, Bantam, →ISBN:
glosses: Speed or velocity in general.
examples: text: He didn't bowl a lot of pace in the first T20I.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing.
examples: text: […] 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.
ref: 1952, G. B. Stern, The Donkey Shoe, The Macmillan Company, published 1952, page 29:
text: A pace of donkeys fans out in different directions.
ref: 2006 November 9, “Drop the dead donkeys”, in The Economist:
text: Like a small farm, the lighthouse compound had its chattering of chicks, pace of donkeys, troop of horses, and fold of sheep.
ref: 2007, Elinor De Wire, The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses, Pineapple Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 200:
glosses: A group of donkeys.
glosses: A passage, a route.
One's journey or route.
examples: text: But when she saw them gone she forward went, / As lay her journey, through that perlous Pace [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A passage, a route.
A passage through difficult terrain; a mountain pass or route vulnerable to ambush etc.
glosses: A passage, a route.
An aisle in a church.
Derived terms: at pace
change of pace
cinque-pace
footpace
force the pace
gather pace
geometrical pace
halfpace
keep pace
keep the pace
medium pace
mend one's pace
paceboard
pace bowler
pace bowling
pace car
pace lap
paceline
pacemaker
pacemaking
paceman
pace notes
pace-of-life syndrome
pacer
pace-setter
pacesetter
pace setter
pacesetting
pace-setting
pace stick
paceway
pacey
pick up the pace
put one through one's paces
quarterpace
requiescant in pace
requiescat in pace
set the pace
snail pace
snail's pace
turn of pace
walking pace