pace
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
prep
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
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.
Inflected forms:
form: paces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: paces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pacing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: paced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: paced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A step.
pos: noun
gloss: A step.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A way of stepping.
pos: noun
examples: Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation.
gloss: A way of stepping.
pos: noun
gloss: Speed or velocity in general.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing.
pos: noun
examples: He didn't bowl a lot of pace in the first T20I.
gloss: A group of donkeys.
pos: noun
tags: collective
examples: […] 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.
A pace of donkeys fans out in different directions.
Like a small farm, the lighthouse compound had its chattering of chicks, pace of donkeys, troop of horses, and fold of sheep.
gloss: A passage, a route.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A passage, a route.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: But when she saw them gone she forward went, / As lay her journey, through that perlous Pace [...].
gloss: A passage, a route.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To walk back and forth in a small distance.
pos: verb
examples: Groups of men, in all imaginable attitudes, were lying, standing, sitting, or pacing up and down.
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.
gloss: To walk along or through sth with regular strides.
pos: verb
gloss: To set the speed.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To measure by walking.
pos: verb
gloss: With all due respect to.
pos: prep
tags: formal
examples: She is marvelous here, but he (pace many critics) is no bumpkin
Derived words: 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
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
pacemaker
mispace
outpace
pace off
pace oneself
pace out
repace
tachypace
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: քայլ
roman: kʻayl
lang: Bashkir
word: аҙым
roman: aźım
lang: Belarusian
word: крок
roman: krok
lang: Bulgarian
word: стъпка
roman: stǎpka
lang: Catalan
word: pas
lang: Chamicuro
word: tepane
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 步伐
roman: bùfá
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 步幅
roman: bùfú
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 腳步 /脚步
roman: jiǎobù
lang: Czech
word: krok
lang: Esperanto
word: paŝo
lang: Finnish
word: askel
lang: French
word: pas
lang: Galician
word: paso
lang: German
word: Schritt
lang: Greek
word: βήμα
roman: víma
lang: Hungarian
word: lépés
lang: Ingrian
word: harkkamus
lang: Italian
word: passo
lang: Japanese
word: 歩幅
roman: hohaba
lang: Latin
word: passus
lang: Latin
word: gradus
lang: Latvian
word: solis
lang: Macedonian
word: чекор
roman: čekor
lang: Māori
word: whetoko
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: steg
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: skritt
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: steg
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Schrett
lang: Polish
word: krok
lang: Portuguese
word: passo
lang: Romanian
word: pas
lang: Russian
word: шаг
roman: šag
lang: Slovak
word: krok
lang: Slovene
word: korak
lang: Southern Altai
word: алтам
roman: altam
lang: Spanish
word: paso
lang: Swahili
word: mwendo
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: آدیم
roman: adım
lang: Ukrainian
word: крок
roman: krok
lang: Catalan
word: pas
lang: Finnish
word: passi
lang: Finnish
word: askellaji
lang: German
word: Passgang
lang: German
word: Pass
lang: Japanese
word: 側対歩
roman: sokutaiho
lang: Japanese
word: だく足
roman: dakuashi
lang: Japanese
word: アンブル
roman: anburu
lang: Latvian
word: gaita
lang: Norwegian
word: pass
lang: Russian
word: и́ноходь
roman: ínoxodʹ
lang: Russian
word: аллю́р
roman: alljúr
lang: Slovene
word: kljusanje
lang: Spanish
word: trote
lang: Spanish
word: galope
lang: Ukrainian
word: одно́хідь
roman: odnóxidʹ