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pace
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)
- Step.
- A step taken with the foot. [from 14th century]
- The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements. [from 14th century]
- Way of stepping.
- A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet. [from 14th century]
- Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait. [from 15th century]
- A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet. [from 14th century]
- Speed or velocity in general. [from 15th century]
- (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]
- (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.
- 1952, G. B. Stern, The Donkey Shoe, The Macmillan Company (1952), page 29:
- (obsolete) Passage, route.
- (obsolete) One's journey or route. [14th-18th century]
- (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 [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
- (obsolete) An aisle in a church. [15th-19th century]
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
pace (not comparable)
- (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)
- 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.
- 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V
- To set the speed in a race. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- 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
- (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)
- Easter.
Derived terms
- pace egg
References
Anagrams
- APEC, CAPE, Cape, EAPC, EPAC, EPCA, PECA, cape
Esperanto
Etymology
paco +? -e
Pronunciation
Adverb
pace
- peacefully
Galician
Verb
pace
- third-person singular present indicative of pacer
- second-person singular imperative of pacer
Interlingua
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pa.tse/
Noun
pace (uncountable)
- 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)
- peace
Adverb
pace
- (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
- ablative singular of p?x
Middle English
Verb
pace
- 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 […]
- 1387-1410, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue
Pali
Alternative forms
Verb
pace
- first-person singular present/imperative middle of pacati (“to cook”)
- singular optative active of pacati (“to cook”)
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pa.t?s?/
Noun
pace m anim
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of pac
Noun
pace f
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of paca
Noun
pace f
- 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)
- peace
Declension
Antonyms
- r?zboi
Derived terms
- pa?nic
Related terms
- împ?ca
See also
- lini?te
Spanish
Verb
pace
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of pacer.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of pacer.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of pacer.
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beat
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: b?t, IPA(key): /bi?t/
- Homophone: beet
- Rhymes: -i?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English beten, from Old English b?atan (“to beat, pound, strike, lash, dash, thrust, hurt, injure”), from Proto-West Germanic *bautan, from Proto-Germanic *bautan? (“to push, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ewd- (“to hit, strike”).
Compare Old Irish fo·botha (“he threatened”), Latin confut? (“I strike down”), f?stis (“stick, club”), Albanian bahe (“sling”), Lithuanian baudžiù, Old Armenian ???? (but?)).
Noun
beat (plural beats)
- A stroke; a blow.
- He, […] with a careless beat, / Struck out the mute creation at a heat.
- A pulsation or throb.
- (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- A rhythm.
- (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect; a plot point or story development.
- (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- 2020 April, Elizabeth Kolbert, Why we won't avoid a climate catastrophe[2], National Geographic
- As an adult, I became a journalist whose beat is the environment. In a way, I’ve turned my youthful preoccupations into a profession.
- 2020 April, Elizabeth Kolbert, Why we won't avoid a climate catastrophe[2], National Geographic
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
- 1898, unknown author, Scribner's Magazine Volume 24
- It's a beat on the whole country.
- 1898, unknown author, Scribner's Magazine Volume 24
- (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
- (dated or obsolete, Southern US) A precinct.
- (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
- (Australia) An area frequented by gay men in search of sexual activity. See gay beat.
- (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
- (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- 1911, Hedley Peek and Frederick George Aflalo, Encyclopaedia of Sport
- Bears coming out of holes in the rocks at the last moment, when the beat is close to them.
- 1911, Hedley Peek and Frederick George Aflalo, Encyclopaedia of Sport
- (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Pennsylvania German: biede
Translations
See also
- (piece of hip-hop music): track
Verb
beat (third-person singular simple present beats, present participle beating, simple past beat, past participle beaten or beat)
- (transitive) To hit; strike
- Synonyms: knock, pound, strike, hammer, whack; see also Thesaurus:attack, Thesaurus:hit
- (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than; to excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price
- Synonym: negotiate
- (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
- To tread, as a path.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- To make a sound when struck.
- (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
- (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
- (intransitive, Britain, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
- Synonyms: do it, get it on, have sex, shag; see also Thesaurus:copulate
- (transitive, slang) To rob.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
beat (comparative more beat, superlative most beat)
- (US slang) exhausted
- dilapidated, beat up
- (African-American Vernacular and gay slang) Having impressively attractive makeup
- (slang) boring
- (slang, of a person) ugly
Synonyms
- (exhausted): See also Thesaurus:fatigued
- (dilapidated): See also Thesaurus:ramshackle
- (boring): See also Thesaurus:boring
- (ugly): See also Thesaurus:ugly
Translations
Etymology 2
From beatnik
Noun
beat (plural beats)
- A beatnik.
- 2008, David Wills, Beatdom, Issue Three, March 2008
- The beats were pioneers with no destination, changing the world one impulse at a time.
- 2008, David Wills, Beatdom, Issue Three, March 2008
Derived terms
- beat generation
References
- DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ?ISBN.
Anagrams
- Bate, Beta, Teba, abet, bate, beta
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin be?tus.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /be?at/
- Rhymes: -at
Adjective
beat (feminine beata, masculine plural beats, feminine plural beates)
- saint, beatified
Derived terms
- beateria
Noun
beat m (plural beats)
- monk
Related terms
- beatífic
Further reading
- “beat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “beat” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “beat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “beat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English beat.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bit/
- Hyphenation: beat
- Rhymes: -it
- Homophones: bied, biedt, biet
Noun
beat m (plural beats, diminutive beatje n)
- A beat, a rhythmic pattern, notably in music
- (music) beat an early rock genre.
Derived terms
- beatmis
- beatmuziek
Anagrams
- bate
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from English beat.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bi?t/, [?bi?t?]
Noun
beat
- (music) beat
Declension
Synonyms
- biitti
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English beat.
Adjective
beat (invariable)
- beat (50s US literary and 70s UK music scenes)
Noun
beat m (invariable)
- beat (rhythm accompanying music)
Anagrams
- beta
Latin
Verb
beat
- third-person singular present active indicative of be?
Romanian
Etymology
From Late Latin bibitus (“drunk”), from Latin bib? (“drink”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [be?at]
Adjective
beat m or n (feminine singular beat?, masculine plural be?i, feminine and neuter plural bete)
- drunk, drunken, intoxicated; tipsy
Declension
Synonyms
- îmb?tat
- b?ut
Antonyms
- treaz
Derived terms
- be?ie
Related terms
- bea
- be?iv
- îmb?ta
Volapük
Noun
beat (nominative plural beats)
- happiness
Declension
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