Scuttle vs Pace - What's the difference?
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A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).
(construction) A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.
A broad, shallow basket.
A small hatch or opening in a boat. Also, small opening in a boat or ship for draining water from open deck.
* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=7 (nautical) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
To deliberately sink one's ship or boat by any means, usually by order of the vessel's commander or owner.
* 2002 , Richard Côté, Theodosia Burr Alston: Portrait of a Prodigy , Corinthian Books (2002), ISBN 9781929175314,
* 2003 , Richard Norton Smith, The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, 1880-1955 , Northwestern University Press (2003), ISBN 0810120399,
* 2007 , Michael Mueller, Canaris: The Life and Death of Hitler's Spymaster , Naval Institute Press (2007), ISBN 9781591141013,
* 2009 , Nancy Toppino, Insiders' Guide to the Florida Keys and Key West , Insiders' Guide (2009), ISBN 9780762748716,
(transitive, by extension, in figurative use) Undermine or thwart oneself (sometimes intentionally), or denigrate or destroy one's position or property; compare scupper.
To move hastily, to scurry
* Sir Walter Scott
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 3
* 1913 ,
(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.
#* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=June 9
, author=Owen Phillips
, title=Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark
, work=BBC Sport
# 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.
Scuttle is a related term of pace.
As a noun scuttle
is a container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal) or scuttle can be a small hatch or opening in a boat also, small opening in a boat or ship for draining water from open deck or scuttle can be a quick pace; a short run.As a verb scuttle
is (nautical) to cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose or scuttle can be to move hastily, to scurry.As a proper noun pace is
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) ( > (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.}}
Verb
page 325:
- In this version, the Patriot was boarded by pirates (or the crew and passengers were overpowered by mutineers), who murdered everyone and then looted and scuttled the ship.
page 238:
- To lay the foundation for an all-weather dock at Shelter Bay, he filled an old barge with worn-out grindstones from the Thorold paper mill, then scuttled the vessel.
page 17:
- He decided that before scuttling the ship to prevent her falling into enemy hands he had to get the dead and wounded ashore.
page 227:
- In recent years, steel-hull vessels up to 350 feet long have been scuttled in stable sandy-bottom areas, amassing new communities of fish and invertebrates and easing the stress and strain on the coral reef by creating new fishing and diving sites.
- The candidate had scuttled his chances with his unhinged outburst.
Etymology 3
See scuddle.Verb
- With the first dawn of day, old Janet was scuttling about the house to wake the baron.
- there was a wisp or two of fine seaweed that had somehow got in, and a small crab was still alive and scuttled across the corner, yet the coffins were but little disturbed.
- Morel scuttled out of the house before his wife came down.
Usage notes
The word "scuttle" carries a crab-like connotation, and is mainly used to describe panic-like movements of the legs, akin to crabs' leg movements.References
Anagrams
* English terms with multiple etymologiespace
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 .
citation, page= , passage=Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation.}}
- 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.