| Pace 1. (n.) A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step. 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. 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. 4. (n.) A slow gait; a footpace. 5. (n.) Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack. 6. (n.) Any single movement, step, or procedure. 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. 8. (n.) A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web. 9. (v. i.) To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps. 10. (v. i.) To proceed; to pass on. 11. (v. i.) To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack. 12. (v. i.) To pass away; to die. 13. (v. t.) To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round. 14. (v. t.) To measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of ground. 15. (v. t.) To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in. Thesaurus Entries amble, ambulate, ankle, antecede, antedate, appraise, appreciate, assay, assess, barge, bat, be the bellwether, beacon, bowl along, bundle, calculate, calibrate, caliper, canter, caracole, career, catch a crab, celerity, check a parameter, circumambulate, clip, clop, clump, compute, curvet, cut a crab, determine, dial, divide, drag, droop, estimate, evaluate, fathom, feather, feather an oar, figure, flounce, foot, foot it, footfall, footslog, footstep, forerun, frisk, gage, gait, gallop, gauge, get ahead of, get before, give way, go before, go on horseback, graduate, grind, groove, guide, hack, halt, have the start, head, head the line, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hoof, hoof it, hoofbeat, hop, inoffensive, jaywalk, jog, jog on, jolt, judge, jump, lap, lead, lead the dance, lead the way, leg, leg it, lick, light the way, limp, lock step, lope, lumber, lunge, lurch, measure, mensurate, mete, meter, mince, mincing steps, mount, outstrip, pad, paddle, pedestrianize, peg, perambulate, peripateticate, piaffe, piaffer, plod, plumb, ply the oar, prance, precede, predate, prize, probe, progress, pull, punt, quantify, quantize, quickness, rack, rapidity, rate, reckon, ride bareback, ride hard, roll, rote, row, row away, row dry, rut, sashay, saunter, scuff, scuffle, scull, scuttle, set the pace, shamble, ship oars, shoot, shuffle, shuffle along, sidle, single-foot, size, size up, skip, sky an oar, slink, slither, slog, slouch, slowness, sound, span, spearhead, speed, stagger, stalk, stamp, stand first, step, stomp, straddle, straggle, stride, stroll, strolling gait, strut, stump, stump it, survey, swagger, swiftness, swing, take a reading, take horse, take the lead, tempo, time, tittup, toddle, totter, traipse, travel, traverse, tread, treadmill, triangulate, trip, troop, trot, trudge, valuate, value, velocity, waddle, walk, wamble, weigh, wiggle, wobble |