pace

noun

1. A step.
2. A step.

   “Even at the duel, standing 10 paces apart, he could have satisfied Aaron’s honor.”

   “I have perambulated your field, and estimate its perimeter to be 219 paces.”

3. A way of stepping.

   “Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation.”

4. A way of stepping.
5. Speed or velocity in general.

   “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.”

6. A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing.

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

7. (collective)A group of donkeys.

   “[…] 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.”

8. (obsolete)A passage, a route.
9. (obsolete)A passage, a route.

   “But when she saw them gone she forward went, / As lay her journey, through that perlous Pace [...].”

10. (obsolete)A passage, a route.
11. Synonym of Easter.

adj

1. (not-comparable)Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls.

verb

1. To walk back and forth in a small distance.

   “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.”

2. To set the speed in a race.

   “The clubs in London, Manchester, Birmingham, etc., hold various track meetings for races varying from one mile to fifty miles, the longer distances being sometimes paced by tandems.”

3. To measure by walking.

prep

1. (formal)With all due respect to.

   “She is marvelous here, but he (pace many critics) is no bumpkin”

name

1. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
2. (UK, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.
3. (US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers International Union.
4. A surname.
5. A census-designated place in Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States.
6. A town in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States.