pace — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. A step. A step taken with the foot.

2. A step. The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements.

   Esempi

   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. A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet.

   Esempi

   We set off at a round pace.

   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. Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait.

5. Speed or velocity in general.

   Sinonimi

   temporhythm

   Esempi

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   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.

   Esempi

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

7. A group of donkeys (asses).

   Uso

   • collective

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   […] 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.

   Altri esempi (1)

   we see and then imitate the pros moving about as quickly as a pace of asses pulling cannon through the Pripet Marshes.

8. A passage, a route. One's journey or route.

   Uso

   • obsoleto

9. A passage, a route. A passage through difficult terrain; a mountain pass or route vulnerable to ambush etc.

   Uso

   • obsoleto

   Esempi

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

10. A passage, a route. An aisle in a church.

    Uso

    • obsoleto

Aggettivo

1. Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls.

   Uso

   • not-comparable

Verbo

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

   Esempi

   Groups of men, in all imaginable attitudes, were lying, standing, sitting, or pacing up and down.

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   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 walk along or through sth with regular strides.

3. To set the speed.

   Sinonimi

   set the pace

   Esempi

   I helped her train for the marathon by pacing her on a bike.

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   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.

4. To measure by walking.

Preposizione

1. With all due respect to.

   Uso

   • formale

   Esempi

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

Sostantivo

1. Synonym of Easter.

Sostantivo

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

   Sinonimi

   gait

   Termini più generali

   rate

2. the distance covered by a step

   Sinonimi

   footstepstepstride

   Termini più generali

   indefinite quantity

   Esempi

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

3. the relative speed of progress or change

   Sinonimi

   rate

   Termini più generali

   temporal property

   Esempi

   he lived at a fast pace

   he works at a great rate

   Altri esempi (1)

   the pace of events accelerated

4. a step in walking or running

   Sinonimi

   stridetread

   Termini più generali

   step

5. the rate of some repeating event

   Sinonimi

   tempo

   Termini più generali

   rate

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

   Sinonimi

   yard

   Termini più generali

   linear unitlinear measure

Verbo

1. walk with slow or fast paces

   Termini più generali

   walk

   Esempi

   He paced up and down the hall

2. go at a pace

   Termini più generali

   travelgomovelocomote

   Esempi

   The horse paced

3. measure (distances) by pacing

   Sinonimi

   step

   Termini più generali

   quantifymeasure

   Esempi

   step off ten yards

4. regulate or set the pace of

   Termini più generali

   determineshapemoldinfluenceregulatemould

   Esempi

   Pace your efforts