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Etymology

From Middle English pase, from Anglo-Norman pas, Old French pas, and their source, Latin passus. Doublet of pas and fathom; compare also pass. Cognate with Spanish pasear.

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Definitions

A step.
2
A way of stepping.
- Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation.
3
Speed or velocity in general.
- For with ſuch puiſſance and impetuous maine / Thoſe Champions broke on them, that forſt the fly, / Like ſcattered Sheepe, whenas the Shepherds ſwaine / A Lyon and a Tigre doth eſpye, / With greedy pace forth ruſhing from the foreſt nye.
- The fastest women runners can run a mile in well under five minutes, but in order to reach that goal they've had to train at a much slower pace over thousands of miles.
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1. 4
  A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain…
  A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing.
  - He didn't bowl a lot of pace in the first T20I.
2. 5
  A group of donkeys.
  - […] 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.
  - A pace of donkeys fans out in different directions.
  - Like a small farm, the lighthouse compound had its chattering of chicks, pace of donkeys, troop of horses, and fold of sheep.
3. A passage, a route.
4. Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls.
5. 8
  To walk back and forth in a small distance.
  - Groups of men, in all imaginable attitudes, were lying, standing, sitting, or pacing up and down.
6. 9
  To set the speed in a race.
  - The clubs in London, Manchester, Birmingham, etc., hold various track meetings for races varying from one mile to fifty miles, the longer distances being sometimes paced by tandems.
7. To measure by walking.
8. 11
  With all due respect to.
  - She is marvelous here, but he (pace many critics) is no bumpkin
9. Synonym of Easter.
10. Acronym of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
11. Acronym of Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.
12. Acronym of Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers International Union.
13. A surname.
14. A census-designated place in Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States.
15. A town in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States.

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Derived

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A definitional loop anchored at pace. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at pace. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

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