Dawdle vs Pace - What's the difference?
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To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.
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To spend (time) without haste or purpose.
To move or walk lackadaisically.
* Thackeray
(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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(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.
Dawdle is a related term of pace.
As a verb dawdle
is to spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.As a noun dawdle
is a dawdler.As a proper noun pace is
.dawdle
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Verb
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- Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me.
- to dawdle away the whole morning
- If you dawdle on your daily walk, you won't get as much exercise.
- We dawdle up and down Pall Mall.
See also
* dally, dander, dandle, diddle, loaf, piddle, wander, doodleAnagrams
* English intransitive verbspace
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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.