Pace

/peɪs/ · noun

Meaning

A step..

Definitions by Sense

1. A step.
2. A way of stepping.
3. Speed or velocity in general.
4. (cricket) A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing.
5. (collective) A group of donkeys.
6. (obsolete) A passage, a route.
7. (cricket) Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls.
8. To walk back and forth in a small distance.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

He didn't bowl a lot of pace in the first T20I.

[…] 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.

A pace of donkeys fans out in different directions.

Like a small farm, the lighthouse compound had its chattering of chicks, pace of donkeys, troop of horses, and fold of sheep.

Groups of men, in all imaginable attitudes, were lying, standing, sitting, or pacing up and down.

As we stood waiting for the departure time with the setting sun twinkling on the great brass dome of our 2-4-0, the sound of church bells was the only one apart from the measured tread of the guard slowly pacing towards his van, and, standing at an open window, I more than once heard the fireman's "Right away!" to his mate in acknowledgement of a desultory wave of the unfurled green flag.

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• paces
• pacing
• paced

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