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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
pace
    n 1: the rate of moving (especially walking or running) [syn:
         pace, gait]
    2: the distance covered by a step; "he stepped off ten paces
       from the old tree and began to dig" [syn: footstep, pace,
       step, stride]
    3: the relative speed of progress or change; "he lived at a fast
       pace"; "he works at a great rate"; "the pace of events
       accelerated" [syn: pace, rate]
    4: a step in walking or running [syn: pace, stride, tread]
    5: the rate of some repeating event [syn: tempo, pace]
    6: a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44
       centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a
       stride [syn: yard, pace]
    v 1: walk with slow or fast paces; "He paced up and down the
         hall"
    2: go at a pace; "The horse paced"
    3: measure (distances) by pacing; "step off ten yards" [syn:
       pace, step]
    4: regulate or set the pace of; "Pace your efforts"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pace \pace\ (p[=a]s), n. [OE. pas, F. pas, from L. passus a
   step, pace, orig., a stretching out of the feet in walking;
   cf. pandere, passum, to spread, stretch; perh. akin to E.
   patent. Cf. Pas, Pass.]
   1. A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a
      step.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. 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. "The height of sixty pace ." --Chaucer.
      [1913 Webster]

   Note: Ordinarily the pace is estimated at two and one half
         linear feet; but in measuring distances be stepping,
         the pace is extended to three feet (one yard) or to
         three and three tenths feet (one fifth of a rod). The
         regulation marching pace in the English and United
         States armies is thirty inches for quick time, and
         thirty-six inches for double time. The Roman pace
         (passus) was from the heel of one foot to the heel of
         the same foot when it next touched the ground, five
         Roman feet.
         [1913 Webster]

   3. 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. --Chaucer.
      [1913 Webster]

            To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
            Creeps in this petty pace from day to day. --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

            In the military schools of riding a variety of paces
            are taught.                           --Walsh.
      [1913 Webster]

   4. A slow gait; a footpace. [Obs.] --Chucer.
      [1913 Webster]

   5. Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack.
      [1913 Webster]

   6. Any single movement, step, or procedure. [R.]
      [1913 Webster]

            The first pace necessary for his majesty to make is
            to fall into confidence with Spain.   --Sir W.
                                                  Temple.
      [1913 Webster]

   7. (Arch.) 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.
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   8. (Weaving) A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the
      warp in pacing the web.
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   9. The rate of progress of any process or activity; as, the
      students ran at a rapid pace; the plants grew at a
      remarkable pace.
      [PJC]

   Geometrical pace, the space from heel to heel between the
      spot where one foot is set down and that where the same
      foot is again set down, loosely estimated at five feet, or
      by some at four feet and two fifths. See Roman pace in
      the Note under def. 2. [Obs.]

   To keep pace with or To hold pace with, to keep up with;
      to go as fast as. "In intellect and attainments he kept
      pace with his age." --Southey.

   To put (someone) through one's paces to cause (someone) to
      perform an act so as to demonstrate his/her skill or
      ability.
      [1913 Webster +PJC]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pace \Pace\ (p[=a]s), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Paced (p[=a]st); p.
   pr. & vb. n. Pacing (p[=a]"s[i^]ng).]
   1. To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or
      measured steps. "I paced on slowly." --Pope. "With speed
      so pace." --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To proceed; to pass on. [Obs.]
      [1913 Webster]

            Or [ere] that I further in this tale pace.
                                                  --Chaucer.
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   3. To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side
      together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack.
      [1913 Webster]

   4. To pass away; to die. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
      [1913 Webster]

4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pace \Pace\, v. t.
   1. To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or
      upon; as, the guard paces his round. "Pacing light the
      velvet plain." --T. Warton.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of
      ground. Often used with out; as, to pace out the distance.
      [1913 Webster +PJC]

   3. To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to
      teach the pace; to break in.
      [1913 Webster]

            If you can, pace your wisdom
            In that good path that I would wish it go. --Shak
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   To pace the web (Weaving), to wind up the cloth on the
      beam, periodically, as it is woven, in a loom.
      [1913 Webster]

5. V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016)
PACE
       Priority Access Control Enabled (3Com, ethernet)
       

6. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)
PACE

   A CPU based on the Nova design, but with 16-bit addressing,
   more addressing modes and a 10 level stack (like the
   Intel 8008).

   (1994-11-30)


7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
PACE. A measure of length containing two feet and a half; the geometrical 
pace is five feet long. The common pace is the length of a step; the 
geometrical is the length of two steps, or the whole space passed over by 
the same foot from one step to another. 



8. U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Pace, FL -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Florida
   Population (2000):    7393
   Housing Units (2000): 3096
   Land area (2000):     9.382194 sq. miles (24.299770 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    9.382194 sq. miles (24.299770 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            53725
   Located within:       Florida (FL), FIPS 12
   Location:             30.595593 N, 87.153712 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     32571
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Pace, FL
    Pace


9. U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Pace, MS -- U.S. town in Mississippi
   Population (2000):    364
   Housing Units (2000): 131
   Land area (2000):     0.153895 sq. miles (0.398586 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.006126 sq. miles (0.015866 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.160021 sq. miles (0.414452 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            54920
   Located within:       Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
   Location:             33.791797 N, 90.858289 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):    
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Pace, MS
    Pace


Thesaurus Results for Pace:

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