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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)

  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 () 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.

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gradualism

English

Etymology

gradual +? -ism

Noun

gradualism (countable and uncountable, plural gradualisms)

  1. (biology) The belief that evolution proceeds at a steady pace, without the sudden development of new species or biological features from one generation to the next.
  2. (transferred sense) The belief that some phenomenon occurs gradually over a long period of time.
  3. (politics) The belief that change ought to be brought about in small, discrete increments rather than in abrupt strokes such as revolutions or uprisings.

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  • punctuationism
  • saltationism

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