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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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stalk
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: stôk, IPA(key): /st??k/
- (US) enPR: stôk, IPA(key): /st?k/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /st?k/
- Homophone: stork (non-rhotic accents), Homophone: stock (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
- Rhymes: -??k
Etymology 1
From Middle English stalke, diminutive of stale (“ladder upright, stalk”), from Old English stalu (“wooden upright”), from Proto-Germanic *stal? (compare Middle Low German stal, stale (“chair leg”)), variant of *steluz, *stel?n (“stalk”) (compare Old English stela, Dutch steel, German Stiel, Danish stilk), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (compare Albanian shtalkë (“crossbeam, board used as a door hinge”), Welsh telm (“frond”), Ancient Greek ?????? (stélos, “beam”), Old Armenian ????? (ste?n, “trunk, stalk”)).
Noun
stalk (plural stalks)
- The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts.
- Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
- The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
- Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Grew to this entry?)
- (architecture) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
- One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
- (zoology)
- A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.
- The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
- The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
- (metalworking) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English stalken, from Old English *stealcian (as in bestealcian (“to move stealthily”), stealcung (“stalking”)), from Proto-Germanic *stalk?n? (“to stalk, move stealthily”) (compare Dutch stelkeren, stolkeren (“to tip-toe, tread carefully”), Danish stalke (“to high step, stalk”), Norwegian dialectal stalka (“to trudge”)), from *stalkaz, *stelkaz (compare Old English stealc (“steep”), Old Norse stelkr, stjalkr (“knot (bird), red sandpiper”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)telg, *(s)tolg- (compare Middle Irish tolg (“strength”), Lithuanian stalgùs (“stiff, defiant, proud”)).
Alternate etymology connects Proto-Germanic *stalk?n? to a frequentative form of *stelan? (“to steal”).
Verb
stalk (third-person singular simple present stalks, present participle stalking, simple past and past participle stalked)
- (transitive) To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
- But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own way; and presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking.
- (transitive) To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.Wp
- (intransitive) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
- (intransitive) To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Apophthegms
- The king […] crept under the shoulder of his led horse; […] "I must stalk," said he.
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion
- One underneath his horse, to get a shoot doth stalk.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Apophthegms
Conjugation
Translations
Noun
stalk (plural stalks)
- A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
- The hunting of a wild animal by stealthy approach.
- 1885, Theodore Roosevelt, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman
- When the stalk was over (the antelope took alarm and ran off before I was within rifle shot) I came back.
- 1885, Theodore Roosevelt, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman
Related terms
- stalker
References
Etymology 3
Attested 1530 in the sense "to walk haughtily", perhaps from Old English stealc (“steep”), from Proto-Germanic *stelkaz, *stalkaz (“high, lofty, steep, stiff”); see above.
Verb
stalk (third-person singular simple present stalks, present participle stalking, simple past and past participle stalked)
- (intransitive) To walk haughtily.
- With manly mien he stalked along the ground.
- 1704, Joseph Addison, Milton's Stile Imitated, in a Translation of a Story out of the Third Aeneid
- Then stalking through the deep, / He fords the ocean.
- 1850, Charles Merivale, History of the Romans Under the Empire
- I forbear myself from entering the lists in which he has long stalked alone and unchallenged.
Translations
Noun
stalk (plural stalks)
- A haughty style of walking.
Anagrams
- talks
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
stalk
- first-person singular present indicative of stalken
- imperative of stalken
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