Definition of Pace

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Definition of Pace

Pace

A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.

The length of a step in walking or marching, reckoned from the heel of one foot to the heel of the other; -- used as a unit in measuring distances; as, he advanced fifty paces.

Manner of stepping or moving; gait; walk; as, the walk, trot, canter, gallop, and amble are paces of the horse; a swaggering pace; a quick pace.

A slow gait; a footpace.

Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack.

Any single movement, step, or procedure.

A broad step or platform; any part of a floor slightly raised above the rest, as around an altar, or at the upper end of a hall.

A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web.

To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps.

To proceed; to pass on.

To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack.

To pass away; to die.

To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round.

To measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of ground.

To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in.

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Pace Quotations

Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.
Barack Obama

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Henry David Thoreau

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace.
Jerry Garcia

Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it, spend time with your families.
Colin Powell

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.
Steve Prefontaine

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.
Jimmy Buffett

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Pace Translations

pace in Dutch is treden, schrijden, stappen, lopen
pace in Finnish is askel
pace in German is Schritt, Stufe, Schritt
pace in Italian is gradino, passo
pace in Portuguese is ritmo
pace in Spanish is escalon
pace in Swedish is fart

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