Definition of pace

• n. - A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.
• 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.
• 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.
• n. - A slow gait; a footpace.
• n. - Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack.
• n. - Any single movement, step, or procedure.
• 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.
• n. - A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web.
• v. i. - To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps.
• v. i. - To proceed; to pass on.
• v. i. - To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack.
• v. i. - To pass away; to die.
• v. t. - To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round.
• v. t. - To measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of ground.
• v. t. - To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in.