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.

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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:

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.

Noun

(en noun)

Easter.

Noun

(en noun)

(senseid)A doorlike structure outside a house.

Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.

Movable barrier.

The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.

(computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and'', ''or'', ''nand , etc.

(cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.

The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.

(flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.

passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.

(electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).

In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.

(metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.

The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.

Noun

(en noun)

A way, path.

* Sir Walter Scott

I was going to be an honest man; but the devil has this very day flung first a lawyer, and then a woman, in my gate .

(obsolete) A journey.

* , II.xii:

nought regarding, they kept on their gate , / And all her vaine allurements did forsake [...].

(Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street.

(UK, Scotland, dialect, archaic) manner; gait