pace | Lernwerd

Forms

1.A step.
- I have perambulated your field, and estimate its perimeter to be 219 paces.
- Even at the duel, standing 10 paces apart, he could have satisfied Aaron’s honor.
2.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.
3.Speed or velocity in general.
- 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.
4.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.

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.
2.To walk along or through sth with regular strides.
3.To set the speed.
- I helped her train for the marathon by pacing her on a bike.
- 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.

Uncommon· #2863

From Middle English pase, from Anglo-Norman pas, Old French pas, and their source, Latin passus.

Doublet of pas and fathom; compare also pass.

Cognate with pass, Spanish pasear, paso.