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Definition of Pace

1. Verb. Walk with slow or fast paces. "They pace up the hill"; "He paced up and down the hall"

2. Noun. The rate of moving (especially walking or running).

3. Verb. Go at a pace. "The horse paced"

4. Noun. The distance covered by a step. "He stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig"

5. Verb. Measure (distances) by pacing. "Step off ten yards"

6. Noun. The relative speed of progress or change. "The pace of events accelerated"

7. Verb. Regulate or set the pace of. "Pace your efforts"

8. Noun. A step in walking or running.

9. Noun. The rate of some repeating event.

10. Noun. A unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride.

Definition of Pace

1. n. A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.

2. v. i. To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps.

3. v. t. To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round.

Definition of Pace

1. Acronym. Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe ¹

2. Acronym. (British) Police and Criminal Evidence Act, 1984 ¹

3. Acronym. (US labor union) Paper, Allied Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers International Union ¹

4. Noun. (obsolete) Passage, route. ¹

5. Noun. Way of stepping. ¹

6. Noun. Step. ¹

7. Noun. The collective noun for donkeys. ¹

8. Adjective. (cricket) Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls. ¹

9. Verb. Walk to and fro in a small space. ¹

10. Verb. Set the speed in a race. ¹

11. Verb. Measure by walking. ¹

12. Preposition. (context: formal) With all due respect to. ¹

13. Noun. Easter. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pace

1. to walk with a regular step [v PACED, PACING, PACES]

Medical Definition of Pace

1. 1. A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step. 2. The length of a step in walking or marching, reckoned from the heel of one foot to the heel of the other; used as a unit in measuring distances; as, he advanced fifty paces. Ordinarily the pace is estimated at two and one half linear feet; but in measuring distances be stepping, the pace is extended to three feet (one yard) or to three and three tenths feet (one fifth of a rod). The regulation marching pace in the English and United States armies is thirty inches for quick time, and thirty-six inches for double time. The Roman pace (passus) was from the heel of one foot to the heel of the same foot when it next touched the ground, five Roman feet. 3. Manner of stepping or moving; gait; walk; as, the walk, trot, canter, gallop, and amble are paces of the horse; a swaggering pace; a quick pace. "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day." (Shak) "In the military schools of riding a variety of paces are taught." (Walsh) 4. A slow gait; a footpace. 5. Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack. 6. Any single movement, step, or procedure. "The first pace necessary for his majesty to make is to fall into confidence with Spain." (Sir W. Temple) 7. A broad step or platform; any part of a floor slightly raised above the rest, as around an altar, or at the upper end of a hall. 8. A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web. Geometrical pace, the space from heel to heel between the spot where one foot is set down and that where the same foot is again set down, loosely estimated at five feet, or by some at four feet and two fifths. See Roman pace in the Note under def. 2. To keep, or hold, pace with, to keep up with; to go as fast as. "In intellect and attainments he kept pace with his age." Origin: OE. Pas, F. Pas, from L. Passus a step, pace, orig, a stretching out of the feet in walking; cf. Pandere, passum, to spread, stretch; perh. Akin to E. Patent. Cf. Pas, Pass. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pace

pacate pacated pacations pacay pacays paccan paccay paccays pacchionian pacchionian bodies

pacchionian corpuscles pacchionian depressions pacchionian glands pacchionian granulations pace (current term) pace-egg pace-setter pace-setters pace car pace cars

pace egg pace eggs pace lap pace notes pace setter pace setters paced pacefollower paceite

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