Pace

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  • noun. A step made in walking; a stride.
  • noun. A unit of length equal to 30 inches (0.76 meter).
  • noun. The distance spanned by a step or stride, especially.
  • noun. The modern version of the Roman pace, measuring five English feet.
  • noun. Thirty inches at quick marching time or 36 at double time.
  • noun. Five Roman feet or 58.1 English inches, measured from the point at which the heel of one foot is raised to the point at which it is set down again after an intervening step by the other foot.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The rate of speed at which a person, animal, or group walks or runs.
  • noun. The rate of speed at which an activity or movement proceeds.
  • noun. A manner of walking or running.
  • noun. A gait of a horse in which both feet on one side are lifted and put down together.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To walk or stride back and forth across.
  • intransitive verb. To measure (a space) by counting the number of steps needed to cover a distance.
  • intransitive verb. To walk (a number of steps) in so measuring a space.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To set or regulate the rate of speed for (a race or a competitor in a race).
  • intransitive verb. To lead (one's team or teammates) with a good performance.
  • intransitive verb. To advance or develop (something) for a particular purpose or at a particular rate.
  • intransitive verb. To train (a horse) in a particular gait, especially the pace.
  • intransitive verb. To walk with long deliberate steps.
  • intransitive verb. To go at the pace. Used of a horse or rider.
  • idiom. (pace (oneself)) To move or make progress at a sensible or moderate rate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The space or distance traversed by the foot in one completed movement in walking; hence, the movement itself; a step.
  • noun. A lineal measure of variable extent, representing the space naturally measured by the movement of the foot in walking.
  • noun. Manner or rate of walking or of progression; gait; rate of advance; velocity: as, a quick pace; to set the pace; it is pace that kills.
  • noun. Specifically, in music, same as tempo.
  • noun. The rate of moving on foot; footpace.
  • noun. A gait of the horse, in which the legs of the same side are lifted together. See rack.
  • noun. A step; measure; thing to be done.
  • noun. A pass or passage.
  • noun. Course; direction.
  • noun. A space; while.
  • noun. A part of a poem or tale; passage; passus.
  • noun. A part of a floor slightly raised above the general level; a dais; a broad step or slightly raised space above some level, especially about a tomb.
  • noun. A herd or company of beasts: as, a pace of asses.
  • A corruption of parse.
  • To step; walk; move; especially, to step slowly or with measured or stately tread; stride.
  • To go on; advance.
  • Specifically, in the manège, to go at the pace; move by lifting both feet of the same side simultaneously; amble. See pace, n., , and rack.
  • To walk over step by step: as, the sentinel paces his round.
  • To measure by stepping; measure in paces: as, to pace a piece of ground.
  • To train to a certain step, as a horse; hence, to regulate.
  • To set the pace for (a contestant) in training for a race, or in racing, as for a boat's crew, for a bicycle rider, etc.
  • noun. A dialectal form of pasch.
  • With or by the leave, permission, or consent of (some person mentioned): usually employed as a courteous form of expressing disagreement, like “A. B. must give me leave (or allow me) to say.”
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. Manner of stepping or moving; gait; walk
  • noun. A slow gait; a footpace.
  • Word Usage
    "I've somehow molted the Camus of it all and have been walking at my own pace through the meat of New York City, ignoring the pedestrian traffic that I am fucking up by not keeping * the pace* and walking at the gait my mind sets for my body."
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    Ace  Chase  Grace  Mace  Race  
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    advance  albergo  baroniam  beat  capita  
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