Definitions for the word "pace" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
The length of a step in walking or marching, reckoned from the heel of one foot to the heel of the other; -- used as a unit in measuring distances; as, he advanced fifty paces.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
Manner of stepping or moving; gait; walk; as, the walk, trot, canter, gallop, and amble are paces of the horse; a swaggering pace; a quick pace.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
A slow gait; a footpace.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
Any single movement, step, or procedure.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
A broad step or platform; any part of a floor slightly raised above the rest, as around an altar, or at the upper end of a hall.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. i.
To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. v. i.
To proceed; to pass on.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. v. i.
To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. v. i.
To pass away; to die.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. v. t.
To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
14. v. t.
To measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of ground.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
15. v. t.
To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
16. n.
1 a single step in walking or running. B distance covered in this. 2 speed in walking or running. 3 rate of movement or progression. 4 way of walking or running; gait (ambling pace). v. (-cing) 1 a walk slowly and evenly (pace up and down). B (of a horse) amble. 2 traverse by pacing. 3 set the pace for (a rider, runner, etc.). 4 (foll. By out) measure by pacing. keep pace (often foll. By with) advance at an equal rate (to). Put a person etc. Through his (or her) paces test a person''s qualities in action etc. Set the pace determine the speed; lead. [french pas from latin passus]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
17. prep.
(in stating a contrary opinion) with due respect to (the person named). [latin, ablative of pax peace]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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