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Pace   /peɪs/   Listen
noun
pace  n.  
1.
A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.
2.
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. "The height of sixty pace." Note: Ordinarily the pace is estimated at two and one half linear feet; but in measuring distances be stepping, the pace is extended to three feet (one yard) or to three and three tenths feet (one fifth of a rod). The regulation marching pace in the English and United States armies is thirty inches for quick time, and thirty-six inches for double time. The Roman pace (passus) was from the heel of one foot to the heel of the same foot when it next touched the ground, five Roman feet.
3.
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. "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day." "In the military schools of riding a variety of paces are taught."
4.
A slow gait; a footpace. (Obs.)
5.
Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack.
6.
Any single movement, step, or procedure. (R.) "The first pace necessary for his majesty to make is to fall into confidence with Spain."
7.
(Arch.) 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.
8.
(Weaving) A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web.
9.
The rate of progress of any process or activity; as, the students ran at a rapid pace; the plants grew at a remarkable pace.
Geometrical pace, the space from heel to heel between the spot where one foot is set down and that where the same foot is again set down, loosely estimated at five feet, or by some at four feet and two fifths. See Roman pace in the Note under def. 2. (Obs.)
To keep pace with or To hold pace with, to keep up with; to go as fast as. "In intellect and attainments he kept pace with his age."
To put (someone) through one's paces to cause (someone) to perform an act so as to demonstrate his/her skill or ability.


verb
Pace  v. 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."
2.
To measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of ground. Often used with out; as, to pace out the distance.
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."
To pace the web (Weaving), to wind up the cloth on the beam, periodically, as it is woven, in a loom.


Pace  v. i.  (past & past part. paced; pres. part. pacing)  
1.
To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps. "I paced on slowly." "With speed so pace."
2.
To proceed; to pass on. (Obs.) "Or (ere) that I further in this tale pace."
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.)





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... of mortality had wound along the officially-appointed route, under the cold grey sky, an apparently endless, slowly-marching column of Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry of the Line, progressing pace by pace between the immovable barriers of great-coated soldiers, and the surging, restless sea of black-clad men and women pent up on either hand behind them. The long rolling of muffled drums, and the dull boom ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
... his nose to the ground, as if endeavoring to pick out a cold scent Edward laughed at his brother, and pointed to the track of a deer that had come to drink at the river. At last he agreed to follow Nero, who was now cantering slowly across the prairie. The pace gradually increased, until, on a spot where the grass had grown more luxuriantly than elsewhere, Nero threw up his nose, gave a deep bay, and started off at so furious a pace, that, although well mounted, they had great difficulty in keeping up with ...
— Thrilling Adventures by Land and Sea • James O. Brayman
... impression of something immeasurably old and sepulchral, such as might suit the Grand Lama's court, or the inside of an Egyptian Pyramid; or as if the Hieroglyphics on one of the Obelisks here should begin to pace and gesticulate, and nod their bestial heads upon the granite tablets. The careless bystanders, the London ladies with their eye-glasses and look of an Opera-box, the yawning young gentlemen of the Guarda Nobile, and the laugh of one ...
— The Life of John Sterling • Thomas Carlyle
... spread and effectiveness of the two machines. As a consequence, Aleck made imaginary money much faster than at first she had dreamed of making it, and Sally's competency in spending the overflow of it kept pace with the strain put upon it, right along. In the beginning, Aleck had given the coal speculation a twelvemonth in which to materialize, and had been loath to grant that this term might possibly be shortened by nine months. But that was the feeble work, the nursery work, of a financial fancy that ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... place for them to stay. He got out of the boat to greet the people, and their willing hands took the bundles and helped hide the Ark in the bushes, and the whole company then started back to the Chateau, Grandpere lingering behind the others to keep pace with the ...
— The French Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins


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