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PACE

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pace¹ I. substantiv

1. pas; mers, umblet;

at a snail's pace (încet) ca melcul;

to put on pace a grăbi pasul;

(text.) pace of the warp mersul urzelii.;

(mil.) ordinary pace pas de marş;

(mil.) double-time pace pas alergător.

2. tempo, ritm, pas, viteză;

to go / to hit the pace a) a merge foarte repede, a o lua la picior; b) (fig.) a-şi face de cap; a-şi trăi viaţa din plin;

to keep pace with a merge în pas cu; a nu rămâne în urma (cu gen.) (şi fig.);

to mend one's pace a-şi grăbi pasul;

to set the pace a) a imprima ritmul sau viteza (la canotaj etc.); b) (fig.) a da tonul.

3. pas (al calului);

to put a horse through its paces a plimba un cal.

4. buiestru.

5. (constr.) repaus; treaptă (a unei scări).

6. (tehn.) (mărimea unui) pas.

7. (tehn.) viteză de mers.

◊ to put smb. through his paces a pune pe cineva la încercare.

pace¹ II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a măsura (o cameră etc.), a se plimba cu pas mărunt prin.

2. (sport) a imprima un ritm sau o viteză (cu dat.); a conduce (în competiţii).

pace¹ II. verb B. intranzitiv

1. a păşi, a merge, a se plimba (cu pas mărunt).

2. a merge în buiestru.

pace² prepoziție

(lat.) pace tua cu voia dumitale;

pace Mr Smith cu permisiunea domnului Smith.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

The Indian still paced his room.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Soon, the pace will pick up, and you will be moving forward quickly.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

Next moment he was gaily singing Mr. Peggotty's song, as we walked at a round pace back to Yarmouth.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

“Four hundred paces and a score,” cried Black Simon.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient pace around the house without apparent purpose?

(NPI - Pace Around the House Without Apparent Purpose, NCI Thesaurus)

The third fellow paced up and down.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now go, dear, but don't kill yourself driving at a desperate pace.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

They then proceeded a few paces in silence.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

While I paced softly on, the last sound I expected to hear in so still a region, a laugh, struck my ear.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

The captain, or Wolf Larsen, as men called him, ceased pacing and gazed down at the dying man.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

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