PACE
\pˈe͡ɪs], \pˈeɪs], \p_ˈeɪ_s]\
Definitions of PACE
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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go at a pace, as of a horse
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a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
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measure by pacing, as of distances
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measure by pacing, as of a room
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regulate or set the pace of; "Pace your efforts"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
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regulate or set the pace of; "Pace your efforts"
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measure (distances) by pacing; "step off ten yards"
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walk with slow or fast paces; "He paced up and down the hall"
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go at a pace; "The horse paced"
By Princeton University
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A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.
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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.
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A slow gait; a footpace.
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Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack.
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Any single movement, step, or procedure.
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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.
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A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web.
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To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps.
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To proceed; to pass on.
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To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack.
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To pass away; to die.
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To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round.
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To measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of ground.
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To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.
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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.
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A slow gait; a footpace.
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Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack.
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Any single movement, step, or procedure.
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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.
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A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web.
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To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps.
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To proceed; to pass on.
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To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack.
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To pass away; to die.
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To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round.
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To measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of ground.
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To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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A step; the space covered by a step in walking; as, he went twenty paces; gait, or manner of moving, such as a trot, gallop, etc.; a certain swaying gait of a horse; rate of speed; as, to keep up the pace.
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To measure by steps; to walk over with long, even steps; to train to go at a certain gait.
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To walk with long, regular steps; to go at a swaying gait, as a horse.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A stride: (mil.) the space left between the feet in one step, measured from heel to heel, and varying from 80 to 86 inches: a step: space between the feet in ordinary walking, 2 1/2 feet: gait: rate of motion (of a man or beast): mode of stepping in horses in which the legs on the same side are lifted together: amble.
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To measure by steps: to cause to progress: to regulate in motion.
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To walk: to walk slowly: to amble.
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PACER.
By Daniel Lyons
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A step; measure of thirty inches; gait; amble.
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To measure by steps; walk over to and fro.
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To walk; amble.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To walk with regular steps; measure by strides; move, as a horse, by lifting both feet on the same side at once.
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A step in walking.
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A measure of length; 3 feet.
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The movement by a horse of both feet on the same side together.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Latin] A step; especially, the space included between the two feet in walking, usually estimated at two and a half linear feet, but sometimes at three and three-tenths feet;—manner of walking; gait; degree of celerity in walking;—a mode of stepping among horses, in which the legs on the same side are lifted together; amble.
