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.
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... dotted with little people—they seemed all heads and feet—looking up. And the balloon, released from the twenty-five stone or so of Mr. Butteridge and his lady, was rushing up into the sky at the pace of a racing motor-car. "My crikey!" said ... — The War in the Air • Herbert George Wells Read full book for free!
... went! The French galleys lumbering along at a great pace, their crews pulling a curiously short stroke, and their coxswains yelling "En avant, mes braves!" with all the strength of their lungs. It must have been very like the boat-race Virgil describes in the fifth book of the Aeneid. There was the "huge Chimaera" the "mighty Centaur" and possibly ... — The Days Before Yesterday • Lord Frederick Hamilton Read full book for free!
... her own nervous system, and she rushed upon the offending hen, and kept up this pace with such vigor that at the end of ten minutes she had run her down, taken her literally in hand, borne her squawking into the barn, jammed her down on the nest, and roofed it with boards, which she nailed on with rocks. This done, she returned ... — The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives • Elizabeth Strong Worthington Read full book for free!
... all in coats of mail, and two thousand five hundred men a-foot. And in this array they proceeded till they came in sight of the Moors. As soon as the Cid saw their tents he ordered his men to slacken their pace, and got upon his horse Bavieca, and put himself in the front before all his army, and his sons-in-law the Infantes of Carrion advanced themselves with him. Then the Bishop Don Hieronymo came to the Cid and said, This day have I said the mass of the Holy Trinity before you, I left my own ... — Chronicle Of The Cid • Various Read full book for free!
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