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pace
/peɪs/
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What does pace mean?
noun
- A step taken with the foot.
- The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements.
- A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet.
More meanings (20)
noun
- Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait.
- Speed or velocity in general.
- A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing.
- A group of donkeys (asses).
- Synonym of Easter.
- (obsolete) One's journey or route.
- (obsolete) A passage through difficult terrain; a mountain pass or route vulnerable to ambush etc.
- (obsolete) An aisle in a church.
adjective
- Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls.
verb
- To walk back and forth in a small distance.
- To walk along or through sth with regular strides.
- To set the speed.
- To measure by walking.
preposition
- With all due respect to.
proper noun
- Acronym of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
- Acronym of Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.
- Acronym of Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers International Union.
- A surname.
- A census-designated place in Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States.
- A town in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States.
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IPA pronunciation
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See this word in context.
Always an interested observer of women, Wilson would have slackened his pace anywhere to follow this one with his impersonal, appreciative glance.
Shaken as I was with these alarms, it was hard for me to keep up with the rapid pace of the treasure-hunters.
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In the end they half drove him out into the rain, where he began to pace up and down, bareheaded and frantic.
“You’d forgotten completely about me,” Terence reproached her, taking her arm and beginning to pace the deck, “and I never forget you.”
At Mary Garland she looked fixedly, piercingly, from head to foot, as the slow pace at which she was advancing made possible.