paces

Noun

pace (plural paces)

1. A step taken with the foot.
2. The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements.
   • Even at the duel, standing 10 paces apart, he could have satisfied Aaron’s honor.
3. A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet.
   • We set off at a round pace.
4. Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait.
5. 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.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 14, page 311

   Synonyms:

   tempo, rhythm

6. 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.

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