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Webster 1913 Edition

Pace

Pace

(pās)
,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Paced
(pāst)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Pacing
(pā′sĭng)
.]
1.
To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps.
“I paced on slowly.”
Pope.
“With speed so pace.”
Shak.
2.
To proceed; to pass on.
[Obs.]
Or [ere] that I further in this tale
pace
.
Chaucer.
3.
To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack.
4.
To pass away; to die.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Pace

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon;
as, the guard
paces
his round
.
“Pacing light the velvet plain.”
T. Warton.
3.
To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in.
If you can,
pace
your wisdom
In that good path that I would wish it go.
Shak
To pace the web
(Weaving)
,
to wind up the cloth on the beam, periodically, as it is woven, in a loom.

Webster 1828 Edition

Pace

PACE

,
Noun.
[L., to open, Gr., to tread. See Pass.]
1.
A step.
2.
The space between the two feet in walking, estimated at two feet and a half. But the geometrical pace is five feet, or the whole space passed over by the same foot from one step to another. Sixty thousand such paces make one degree on the equator.
3.
Manner of walking; a gait; as a languishing pace; a heavy pace; a quick or slow pace.
4.
Step; gradation in business. [Little used.]
5.
A mode of stepping among horses, in which the legs on the same side are lifted together. In a general sense, the word may be applied to any other mode of stepping.
6.
Degree of celerity. Let him mend his pace.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day--
To keep or hold pace, to keep up; to go or move as fast as something else.

PACE

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To go; to walk; to move.
2.
To go, move or walk slowly.
3.
To move by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse.

PACE

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To measure by steps; as, to pace a piece of ground.
2.
To regulate in motion.
If you ca, pace your wisdom in that good path that I would wish it go--

Definition 2024

Pace

Pace

See also: pace, PACE, pacé, and pače

English

Proper noun

Pace

  1. A surname​.
  2. A census-designated place in Florida.
  3. A town in Mississippi.

Italian

Proper noun

Pace ?

  1. A surname​.

pace

pace

See also: Pace, PACE, pacé, and pače

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /peɪs/
  • Rhymes: -eɪs

Noun

pace ‎(plural paces)

  1. (obsolete) Passage, route.
    1. (obsolete) One's journey or route. [14th-18th century]
    2. (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 [...].
    3. (obsolete) An aisle in a church. [15th-19th century]
  2. Step.
    1. A step taken with the foot. [from 14th century]
    2. The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements.[1][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.
  3. Way of stepping.
    1. A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet. [from 14th century]
      • 2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport:
        Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation.
    2. Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait. [from 15th century]
  4. Speed or velocity in general. [from 15th century]
  5. (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]
  6. A group of donkeys. The collective noun for 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.
Derived terms
Translations

Adjective

pace ‎(not comparable)

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

Verb

pace ‎(third-person singular simple present paces, present participle pacing, simple past and past participle paced)

  1. Walk to and fro in a small space.
  2. Set the speed in a race.
  3. Measure by walking.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin pace, “in peace”, ablative form of pax, “peace”.

Pronunciation

Preposition

pace

  1. (formal) With all due respect to.
Usage notes

Used when expressing a contrary opinion, in formal speech or writing.

Translations

Etymology 3

Alteration of Pasch.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /peɪs/

Noun

pace ‎(plural paces)

  1. Easter.
Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement: English Customary Weights and Measures, © Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (§: Distance, ¶ № 6)

Anagrams

Esperanto

Etymology

paco +‎ -e

Adverb

pace

  1. peacefully

Galician

Verb

pace

  1. third-person singular present indicative of pacer
  2. second-person singular imperative of pacer

Interlingua

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpa.tse/

Noun

pace ‎(uncountable)

  1. peace

Italian

Etymology

From Latin pācem, accusative of pāx ‎(“peace”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpa.t͡ʃe/, [ˈpäːt͡ʃe̞]
  • Hyphenation: pà‧ce

Noun

pace f ‎(plural paci)

  1. peace

Adverb

pace

  1. (colloquial) that's it; end of the story
    pace e amen‎
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Related terms

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

pāce

  1. ablative singular of pāx

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin pāx, pacem.

Noun

pace f ‎(uncountable)

  1. peace

Declension

Antonyms

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

Spanish

Verb

pace

  1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of pacer.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of pacer.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of pacer.

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman pas, Old French pas, and their source, Latin passus.

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