pace
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English pase, from Anglo-Norman pas, Old French pas, and their source, Latin passus. Doublet of pas, Doublet of fathom; cf. also pass. Cognate with Spanish pasear.
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NounEdit
pace (plural paces)
- Step.
- A step taken with the foot. [from 14th c.]
- The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements.[1] [from 14th c.]
- 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.
- Way of stepping.
- A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet. [from 14th c.]
- 2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation.
- Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait. [from 15th c.]
- A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet. [from 14th c.]
- Speed or velocity in general. [from 15th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 14, page 311:
- 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.
- 1983, Kathryn Lance, Running for Health, Bantam, →ISBN:
- 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.
- (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 c.]
- (collective) A group of 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.
- 1952, G. B. Stern, The Donkey Shoe, The Macmillan Company (1952), page 29:
- (obsolete) Passage, route.
- (obsolete) One's journey or route. [14th–18th c.]
- (obsolete) A passage through difficult terrain; a mountain pass or route vulnerable to ambush etc. [14th–17th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- But when she saw them gone she forward went, / As lay her journey, through that perlous Pace [...].
- (obsolete) An aisle in a church. [15th–19th c.]
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AdjectiveEdit
pace (not comparable)
VerbEdit
pace (third-person singular simple present paces, present participle pacing, simple past and past participle paced)
- To walk back and forth in a small distance.
- 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V
- Groups of men, in all imaginable attitudes, were lying, standing, sitting, or pacing up and down.
- 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V
- To set the speed in a race. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- To measure by walking.
Derived termsEdit
- (set the speed in a race): pacemaker
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Etymology 2Edit
From Latin pāce (“in peace”), ablative form of pāx (“peace”).
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpætʃeɪ/, /ˈpɑːtʃeɪ/, /ˈpeɪsiː/
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PrepositionEdit
pace
- (formal) With all due respect to.
- 1998: Harold Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
- She is marvelous here, but he (pace many critics) is no bumpkin
- 1998: Harold Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Usage notesEdit
Used when expressing a contrary opinion, in formal speech or writing.
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Etymology 3Edit
Alteration of archaic Pasch.
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NounEdit
pace (plural paces)
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ReferencesEdit
- ^ 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)
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pace
GalicianEdit
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pace
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pace (uncountable)
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin pācem (“peace”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-.
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NounEdit
pace f (plural paci)
AdverbEdit
pace
- (colloquial) peace be with you; that's it; end of the story
- pace e amen ― peace be with you and amen
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LatinEdit
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pāce f
Middle EnglishEdit
VerbEdit
pace
- proceed; go forward
- 1387-1410, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue
- Er that I ferther in this tale pace, / Me thynketh it acordaunt to resoun / To telle yow al the condicioun / Of ech of hem, so as it semed me, / And whiche they weren, and of what degree […]
- 1387-1410, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue
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pace
- first-person singular present/imperative middle of pacati (“to cook”)
- singular optative active of pacati (“to cook”)
PolishEdit
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pace m anim
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pace f
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pace f
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin pācem, accusative of pāx (“peace”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-.
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pace f (uncountable)
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SpanishEdit
VerbEdit
pace
- inflection of pacer:
YolaEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English pees, from Anglo-Norman peis, from Latin pax.
NounEdit
pace
- peace
- 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, line 19:
- t'avance pace an livertie,
- to promote peace and liberty——
ReferencesEdit
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 114