different between distance vs pace

English

Alternative forms

• distaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English distance, distaunce, destaunce, from Old French destance, from Latin distantia (“distance, remoteness, difference”), from dist?ns, present participle of dist? (“I stand apart, I am separate, distant, or different”), from di-, dis- (“apart”) + st? (“I stand”). Compare Dutch afstand (“distance”, literally “off-stand, off-stance”), German Abstand.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?s.t?ns/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /?d?s.t?ns/

Noun

distance (countable and uncountable, plural distances)

1. (countable) The amount of space between two points, usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.

   The distance to Petersborough is thirty miles.

   From Moscow, the distance is relatively short to Saint Petersburg, relatively long to Novosibirsk, but even greater to Vladivostok.
2. Length or interval of time.
   • 1718, Matthew Prior, Preface to a Collection of Poems

     ten years' distance between my writing the one and the other

   • 1795, John Playfair, Elements of Geometry

     the writings of Euclid at the distance of two thousand years

3. (countable, informal) The difference; the subjective measure between two quantities.

4. Remoteness of place; a remote place.
   • 1799, Thomas Campbell, The Pleasure of Hope

     'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view.

   • [He] waits at distance till he hears from Cato.

5. Remoteness in succession or relation.

6. A space marked out in the last part of a racecourse.
7. (uncountable, figuratively) The entire amount of progress to an objective.

8. (uncountable, figuratively) A withholding of intimacy; alienation; variance.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles

     Setting them [factions] at distance, or at least distrust amongst themselves.
9. The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness.
   • 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour

     I hope your modesty / Will know what distance to the crown is due.

   • 1706, Francis Atterbury, A Sermon Preached in the Guild-Hall Chapel, September 28 1706

     'Tis by respect and distance that authority is upheld.

10. The space measured back from the winning-post which a racehorse running in a heat must reach when the winner has covered the whole course, in order to run in the final heat.

Synonyms

• (remoteness): farness

Derived terms

Related terms

• distant

Translations

Verb

distance (third-person singular simple present distances, present participle distancing, simple past and past participle distanced)

1. (transitive) To move away (from) someone or something.

   He distanced himself from the comments made by some of his colleagues.

2. (transitive) To leave at a distance; to outpace, leave behind.
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 71:

     Then the horse, with muscles strong as steel, distanced the sound.

Derived terms

• outdistance

Translations

Further reading

• distance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• distance in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• distance at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• danciest

Danish

Etymology

From French distance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /distan?s?/, [d?i?sd???s?]

Noun

distance c (singular definite distancen, plural indefinite distancer)

1. distance
2. detachment

Declension

Further reading

• “distance” in Den Danske Ordbog

Esperanto

Etymology

From distanco +? -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis?tant?se/
• Hyphenation: dis?tan?ce
• Rhymes: -ant?se

Adverb

distance

1. To or at a great distance.

   rigardi pentra?on distance.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis.t??s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Etymology 1

From Latin distantia.

Noun

distance f (plural distances)

1. distance

Derived terms

Related terms

• distant

Etymology 2

Verb

distance

1. inflection of distancer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “distance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latvian

Noun

distance f (5 declension)

1. distance
2. interval
3. railway division

Declension

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed into Middle English from Anglo-Norman pas, Old French pas, and their source, Latin passus. Doublet of pas; cf. also pass. Cognate with Spanish pasear.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /pe?s/
• Rhymes: -e?s

Noun

pace (plural paces)

1. Step.
   1. A step taken with the foot. [from 14th century]
   2. The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements. [from 14th century]

2. Way of stepping.
   1. A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet. [from 14th century]
   2. Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait. [from 15th century]
3. Speed or velocity in general. [from 15th century]
4. (cricket) A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing. [from 19th century]
5. (collective) A group of donkeys.
   • 1952, G. B. Stern, The Donkey Shoe, The Macmillan Company (1952), page 29:

     […] 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.

   • 2006, "Drop the dead donkeys", The Economist, 9 November 2006:

     A pace of donkeys fans out in different directions.

   • 2007, Elinor De Wire, The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses, Pineapple Press (2007), ?ISBN, page 200:

     Like a small farm, the lighthouse compound had its chattering of chicks, pace of donkeys, troop of horses, and fold of sheep.

6. (obsolete) Passage, route.
   1. (obsolete) One's journey or route. [14th-18th century]
   2. (obsolete) A passage through difficult terrain; a mountain pass or route vulnerable to ambush etc. [14th-17th century]
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:

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

   3. (obsolete) An aisle in a church. [15th-19th century]

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

pace (not comparable)

1. (cricket) Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls.

Verb

pace (third-person singular simple present paces, present participle pacing, simple past and past participle paced)

1. To walk back and forth in a small distance.
   • 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V

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

2. To set the speed in a race. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. To measure by walking.

Derived terms

• (set the speed in a race): pacemaker

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin p?ce (“in peace”), ablative form of p?x (“peace”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pæt?e?/, /?p??t?e?/, /?pe?si?/

Preposition

pace

1. (formal) With all due respect to.

Usage notes

Used when expressing a contrary opinion, in formal speech or writing.

Translations

Etymology 3

Alteration of archaic Pasch.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pe?s/

Noun

pace (plural paces)

1. Easter.

Derived terms

• pace egg

References

Anagrams

• APEC, CAPE, Cape, EAPC, EPAC, EPCA, PECA, cape

Esperanto

Etymology

paco +? -e

Pronunciation

Adverb

pace

1. peacefully

Galician

Verb

pace

1. third-person singular present indicative of pacer
2. second-person singular imperative of pacer

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa.tse/

Noun

pace (uncountable)

1. peace

Italian

Etymology

From Latin p?cem, accusative of p?x (“peace”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh??-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa.t??e/
• Hyphenation: pà?ce

Noun

pace f (plural paci)

1. peace

Adverb

pace

1. (colloquial) peace be with you; that's it; end of the story

Related terms

Anagrams

• cape

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pa?.ke/, [?pä?k?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pa.t??e/, [?p??t???]

Noun

p?ce

1. ablative singular of p?x

Middle English

Verb

pace

1. proceed; go forward
   • 1387-1410, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue

     Er that I ferther in this tale pace, / Me thynketh it acordaunt to resoun / To telle yow al the condicioun / Of ech of hem, so as it semed me, / And whiche they weren, and of what degree […]

Pali

Alternative forms

Verb

pace

1. first-person singular present/imperative middle of pacati (“to cook”)
2. singular optative active of pacati (“to cook”)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa.t?s?/

Noun

pace m anim

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of pac

Noun

pace f

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of paca

Noun

pace f

1. dative/locative singular of paka

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin p?cem, accusative of p?x (“peace”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh??-.

Noun

pace f (uncountable)

1. peace

Declension

Antonyms

• r?zboi

Derived terms

• pa?nic

Related terms

• împ?ca

See also

• lini?te

Spanish

Verb

pace

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of pacer.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of pacer.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of pacer.