Jog vs Pace - What's the difference?
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To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.
* John Donne
* Alexander Pope
To shake, stir or rouse.
(exercise) To move in an energetic trot.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
* Robert Browning
To cause to move at an energetic trot.
To straighten stacks of paper by lightly tapping against a flat surface.
(obsolete) Passage, route.
# (obsolete) One's journey or route.
# (obsolete) A passage through difficult terrain; a mountain pass or route vulnerable to ambush etc.
#* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
# (obsolete) An aisle in a church.
Step.
# A step taken with the foot.
# The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements.
Way of stepping.
# A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet.
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# Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait.
Speed or velocity in general.
(cricket) A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing.
The collective noun for donkeys.
* 1952 , G. B. Stern, The Donkey Shoe , The Macmillan Company (1952), page 29:
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* 2007 , Elinor De Wire, The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses , Pineapple Press (2007), ISBN 9781561643905,
(cricket) Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls.
Walk to and fro in a small space.
* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
Set the speed in a race.
Measure by walking.
Jog is a related term of pace.
As a noun jog
is a form of exercise, slower than a run; an energetic trot.As a verb jog
is to push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.As a proper noun pace is
.jog
English
(wikipedia jog)Verb
(jogg)- jog one's elbow
- Now leaps he upright, jogs me, and cries: Do you see / Yonder well-favoured youth?
- Sudden I jogged Ulysses, who was laid / Fast by my side.
- I tried desperately to jog my memory.
- Jog' on, ' jog on, the footpath way.
- So hung his destiny, never to rot, / While he might still jog on and keep his trot.
- The good old ways our sires jogged safely over.
- to jog a horse
pace
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) pas, (etyl) pas, and their source, (etyl) passus.Noun
(en noun)- But when she saw them gone she forward went, / As lay her journey, through that perlous Pace [...].
How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement: English Customary Weights and Measures, © Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (§: Distance , ¶ ? 6)
- Even at the duel, standing 10 paces apart, he could have satisfied Aaron’s honor.
- I have perambulated your field, and estimate its perimeter to be 219 paces .
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- but at Broadstairs and other places along the coast, a pace of donkeys stood on the sea-shore expectant (at least, their owners were expectant) of children clamouring to ride.
Drop the dead donkeys", The Economist , 9 November 2006:
- A pace of donkeys fans out in different directions.
page 200:
- Like a small farm, the lighthouse compound had its chattering'' of chicks, ''pace'' of donkeys, ''troop'' of horses, and ''fold of sheep.
Derived terms
* pace car * pacemaker * pace setter * pacerAdjective
(-)Verb
(pac)- Groups of men, in all imaginable attitudes, were lying, standing, sitting, or pacing up and down.
