PACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pace mean? 

• PACE (noun)
  The noun PACE has 6 senses:

1. the rate of moving (especially walking or running)

2. the distance covered by a step

3. the relative speed of progress or change

4. a step in walking or running

5. the rate of some repeating event

6. a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride

  Familiarity information: PACE used as a noun is common.

• PACE (verb)
  The verb PACE has 4 senses:

1. walk with slow or fast paces

2. go at a pace

3. measure (distances) by pacing

4. regulate or set the pace of

  Familiarity information: PACE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PACE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The rate of moving (especially walking or running)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

gait; pace

Hypernyms ("pace" is a kind of...):

rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pace"):

quick time (a normal marching pace of 120 steps per minute)

double time (a fast marching pace (180 steps/min) or slow jog)

Derivation:

pace (measure (distances) by pacing)

pace (walk with slow or fast paces)

pace (go at a pace)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The distance covered by a step

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

footstep; pace; step; stride

Context example:

he stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig

Hypernyms ("pace" is a kind of...):

indefinite quantity (an estimated quantity)

Derivation:

pace (measure (distances) by pacing)

pace (walk with slow or fast paces)

pace (go at a pace)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The relative speed of progress or change

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

pace; rate

Context example:

the pace of events accelerated

Hypernyms ("pace" is a kind of...):

temporal property (a property relating to time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pace"):

fastness; speed; swiftness (a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens)

beat (a regular rate of repetition)

celerity; quickness; rapidity; rapidness; speediness (a rate that is rapid)

deliberateness; deliberation; slowness; unhurriedness (a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry)

sluggishness (the pace of things that move relatively slowly)

Derivation:

pace (regulate or set the pace of)

pace (walk with slow or fast paces)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A step in walking or running

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

pace; stride; tread

Hypernyms ("pace" is a kind of...):

step (the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down)

Holonyms ("pace" is a part of...):

walk; walking (the act of traveling by foot)

Derivation:

pace (walk with slow or fast paces)

pace (go at a pace)

pace (measure (distances) by pacing)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The rate of some repeating event

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

pace; tempo

Hypernyms ("pace" is a kind of...):

rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pace"):

beats per minute; bpm; M.M.; metronome marking (the pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds)

Derivation:

pace (regulate or set the pace of)

Sense 6

Meaning:

A unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

pace; yard

Hypernyms ("pace" is a kind of...):

linear measure; linear unit (a unit of measurement of length)

Meronyms (parts of "pace"):

foot; ft (a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard)

Holonyms ("pace" is a part of...):

lea (a unit of length of thread or yarn)

fathom; fthm (a linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth)

chain (a unit of length)

perch; pole; rod (a linear measure of 16.5 feet)

Derivation:

pace (measure (distances) by pacing)

• PACE (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Walk with slow or fast paces

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

He paced up and down the hall

Hypernyms (to "pace" is one way to...):

walk (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

They pace up the hill

Derivation:

pace (a step in walking or running)

pace (the relative speed of progress or change)

pace (the distance covered by a step)

pace (the rate of moving (especially walking or running))

pacing (walking with slow regular strides)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Go at a pace

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

The horse paced

Hypernyms (to "pace" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pace"):

canter (go at a canter, of horses)

walk (walk at a pace)

rack; single-foot (go at a rack)

gallop (go at galloping speed)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

pace (a step in walking or running)

pace (the distance covered by a step)

pace (the rate of moving (especially walking or running))

pacer (a horse trained to a special gait in which both feet on one side leave the ground together)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Measure (distances) by pacing

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

pace; step

Context example:

step off ten yards

Hypernyms (to "pace" is one way to...):

measure; quantify (express as a number or measure or quantity)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

pace (a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride)

pace (the rate of moving (especially walking or running))

pace (the distance covered by a step)

pace (a step in walking or running)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Regulate or set the pace of

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

Pace your efforts

Hypernyms (to "pace" is one way to...):

determine; influence; mold; regulate; shape (shape or influence; give direction to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

pace (the relative speed of progress or change)

pace (the rate of some repeating event)

pacer (a horse used to set the pace in racing)

 Context examples 

Why should he be pacing his room all the time?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Night after night I heard him pacing his room, and it was just as he was recovering his confidence that the blow did at last fall.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Everyone goes through the bootcamp you went through, but you are almost done, and you will be all the wiser and richer for having gone through Saturn’s paces.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

If you keep up the pace, you'll be on thirty dollars only one month.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You see, remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of the house, this marriage rather simplifies matters.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The carriage went at a hard pace straight along, then we made a complete turn and went along another straight road.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

They were not hot, said Tiffey, putting on his glasses; no hotter, I understand, than they would have been, going down at the usual pace.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“I wonder, I wonder,” I repeated, pacing up and down.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And away they went at a pretty good pace.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The clerk hurried away in horror; but, ere he had gone many paces, he heard a sudden, sullen thump, with a choking, whistling sound at the end of it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)