pace

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the relative speed of progress or change

   I lived at a fast pace.

2. 2
   noun

   the distance covered by a step

   I stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig for the treasure.

3. 3
   verb

   walk with slow or fast steps

   I paced up and down the hall.

4. 4
   verb

   go at a pace

   The horse paced

5. 5
   noun

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   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.

7. 7
   noun

   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.

8. 8
   noun

   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.

Etymology

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 Spanish pasear.