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In obsolete terms the difference between pace and motion

is that pace is an aisle in a church while motion is a puppet, or puppet show.

As an adjective pace

is describing a bowler who bowls fast balls.

As a preposition pace

is with all due respect to.

As an acronym PACE

is Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

As a proper noun Pace

is {{surname|lang=en}.

pace

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) pas, (etyl) pas, and their source, (etyl) passus.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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:
  • But when she saw them gone she forward went, / As lay her journey, through that perlous Pace [...].
  • # (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. 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 .
  • Way of stepping.
  • # A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet.
  • #* {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 9 , author=Owen Phillips , title=Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation.}}
  • # 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:
    • 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.
  • * 2006 , " Drop the dead donkeys", The Economist , 9 November 2006:
    • A pace of donkeys fans out in different directions.
  • * 2007 , Elinor De Wire, The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses , Pineapple Press (2007), ISBN 9781561643905, 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 * pacer

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (cricket) Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls.

    • Verb

    (pac)
  • Walk to and fro in a small space.
  • * 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
    • Groups of men, in all imaginable attitudes, were lying, standing, sitting, or pacing up and down.
  • Set the speed in a race.
  • Measure by walking.
    • Derived terms
    * (set the speed in a race) pacemaker

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) '', “in peace”, ablative form of ''pax , “peace”.

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • (formal) With all due respect to.
    • Usage notes
    Used when expressing a contrary opinion, in formal speech or writing.

    Etymology 3

    Alteration of Pasch.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Easter.
    • Derived terms
    * pace egg

    References

    Anagrams

    * * * English collective nouns English heteronyms ----

    motion

    English

    (wikipedia motion)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.
  • (countable) A change of position with respect to time.
  • * Dr. H. More
    • This is the great wheel to which the clock owes its motion .
  • (physics) A change from one place to another.
  • * 1839 , Denison Olmsted, A Compendium of Astronomy Page 95
    • Secondly, When a body is once in motion' it will continue to move forever, unless something stops it. When a ball is struck on the surface of the earth, the friction of the earth and the resistance of the air soon stop its ' motion .
  • (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something.
    • The motion to amend is now open for discussion.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Yes, I agree, and thank you for your motion .
  • (obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.
  • * 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
    • when God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing; he had bin else a meer artificiall Adam'', such an ''Adam as he is in the motions .
  • (philosophy) from ; any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.
  • * 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 53:
    • "I say, it is no uneven jot, to pass from the more faint and obscure examples of Spermatical'' life to the more considerable effects of ''general Motion'' in ''Minerals'', ''Metalls'', and sundry ''Meteors'', whose easie and rude shapes may have no need of any Principle of Life, or ''Spermatical form'' distinct from the ''Rest'' or ''Motion'' of the particles of the ''Matter ."
  • Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
  • * South
    • Let a good man obey every good motion rising in his heart, knowing that every such motion proceeds from God.
  • (legal) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant.
  • (music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct motion'' is that by single degrees of the scale. ''Contrary motion'' is when parts move in opposite directions. ''Disjunct motion'' is motion by skips. ''Oblique motion'' is when one part is stationary while another moves. ''Similar'' or ''direct motion is when parts move in the same direction.)
  • * Grove
    • The independent motions of different parts sounding together constitute counterpoint.
  • (obsolete) A puppet, or puppet show.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • What motion' s this? the model of Nineveh?

    Synonyms

    * (state of progression from one place to another) movement * (change from one place to another) move, movement

    Antonyms

    * rest

    Derived terms

    * Brownian motion * motionless * perpetual motion * perpetual motion machine

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To gesture indicating a desired movement.
    • He motioned for me to come closer.
  • (proscribed) To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
  • To make a proposal; to offer plans.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Usage notes

    The parliamentary sense is incorrectly used by people who are not familiar with parliamentary procedure. They might say "I motion that such-and-such"—however, it would be correct to say "I move that such-and-such".

    Related terms

    * emotion * motile * motive * move * movement * stop-motion ----