Tear vs Pace - What's the difference?
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To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
To injure as if by pulling apart.
To cause to lose some kind of unity or coherence.
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, title= To make (an opening) with force or energy.
To remove by tearing.
To demolish
To become torn, especially accidentally.
To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.
To smash or enter something with great force.
A hole or break caused by tearing.
A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
* Dryden
That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
* Milton
(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:
* 2006 , "
* 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.
Tear is a related term of pace.
As a verb tear
is to rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate or tear can be to produce tears.As a noun tear
is a hole or break caused by tearing or tear can be a drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.As a proper noun pace is
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
- He suffered, poor man, at seeing her so badly dressed, with laceless boots, and the arm-holes of her pinafore torn down to the hips; for the charwoman took no care of her.
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Synonyms
* (break) rend, rip * (remove by tearing) rip out, tear off, tear outNoun
(en noun)- A small tear is easy to mend, if it is on the seam.
Derived terms
* wear and tearDerived terms
* tearsheetEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia tear) (en noun)citation, passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
- Let Araby extol her happy coast, / Her fragrant flowers, her trees with precious tears .
- some melodious tear
Derived terms
{{der3 , crocodile tears , shed a tear , teardrop , tear duct , tearful , tear up , teary , two tears in a bucket }}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 .
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.