noun a slow gait; a footpace.
2. pace ·noun any single movement, step, or procedure.
3. pace ·noun specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack.
4. pace ·vi to pass away; to die.
5. pace ·vi to proceed; to pass on.
6. pace ·vt to measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of ground.
7. pace ·noun a single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.
8. pace ·noun a device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web.
9. pace ·vt to develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in.
10. pace ·vt to walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round.
11. pace ·vi to go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps.
12. pace ·noun 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.
13. pace ·vi to move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack.
14. pace ·noun 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.
15. pace ·noun 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.