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plural paces
Step.
A step taken with the foot. examples
The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements. examples
Way of stepping.
A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet. quotations examples
Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation.
2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport
Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait. examples
Speed or velocity in general. quotations examples
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.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 14, page 311
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.
1983, Kathryn Lance, Running for Health, Bantam
(cricket) A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing. examples
(collective) A group of donkeys. quotations examples
[…] 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.
1952, G. B. Stern, The Donkey Shoe, The Macmillan Company, published 1952, page 29
A pace of donkeys fans out in different directions.
2006 November 9, “Drop the dead donkeys”, in The Economist
Like a small farm, the lighthouse compound had its chattering of chicks, pace of donkeys, troop of horses, and fold of sheep.
2007, Elinor De Wire, The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses, Pineapple Press, published 2007, page 200
(obsolete) Passage, route.
(obsolete) One's journey or route.
(obsolete) A passage through difficult terrain; a mountain pass or route vulnerable to ambush etc. quotations
But when she saw them gone she forward went, / As lay her journey, through that perlous Pace [...].
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
(obsolete) An aisle in a church.
not comparable
(cricket) Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls. examples
third-person singular simple present paces, present participle pacing, simple past and past participle paced
To walk back and forth in a small distance. quotations examples
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. examples
To measure by walking. examples
(formal) With all due respect to. quotations examples
She is marvelous here, but he (pace many critics) is no bumpkin
1998, Harold Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Easter. examples