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Pacing
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pace
v.
take regular steps; regulate the speed of; walk back and forth (especially while absorbed in anxious thought); measure an area by counting the number of even strides that must be taken to cross it
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Pacing
Pacing may refer to:
- Pacing (horse gait), a horse gait used in Standardbred horse races
- Pacing, an example of psychomotor agitation where a person walks around a room because of mental stress or anxiety
- Pacing, the even spreading out of athletes' strength in longer-distance track and field and swimming races, so that they don't burn themselves out
- Pacing, a technique used in hypnosis and neuro-linguistic programming
- Cardiac pacing, regulation of the heart rate, generally in the sense of artificial methods:
- Artificial pacemaker
- Transcutaneous pacing, a means of making the heart beat during a medical emergency
- Pacing (forestry), a means of estimating distances by counting the number of paces taken to walk a traverse
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pacing
Noun
1. (music) the speed at which a composition is to be played
(synonym) tempo
(hypernym) musical time
(hyponym) accelerando
(classification) music
2. walking with slow regular strides
(hypernym) gait
(derivation) pace
pace
Noun
1. the rate of moving (especially walking or running)
(synonym) gait
(hypernym) rate
(hyponym) quick time
(derivation) step
2. the distance covered by a step; "he stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig"
(synonym) footstep, step, stride
(hypernym) indefinite quantity
(derivation) step
3. the relative speed of progress or change; "he lived at a fast pace"; "he works at a great rate"; "the pace of events accelerated"
(synonym) rate
(hypernym) temporal property
(hyponym) speed, swiftness, fastness
4. a step in walking or running
(synonym) stride, tread
(hypernym) step
(part-holonym) walk, walking
(derivation) step
5. the rate of some repeating event
(synonym) tempo
(hypernym) rate
6. a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
(synonym) yard
(hypernym) linear unit
(part-holonym) fathom, fthm
(part-meronym) foot, ft
(derivation) step
Verb
1. walk with slow or fast paces; "He paced up and down the hall"
(hypernym) walk
(derivation) stride, tread
2. go at a pace; "The horse paced"
(hypernym) travel, go, move, locomote
(hyponym) canter
(derivation) stride, tread
3. measure (distances) by pacing; "step off ten yards"
(synonym) step
(hypernym) quantify, measure
(derivation) yard
4. regulate or set the pace of; "Pace your efforts"
(hypernym) determine, shape, mold, influence, regulate
(derivation) tempo
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pace
v.
chodit tam a zpět; udat tempo
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pace
Czas.
kroczyć; stąpać (Fran paced nervously up and down the room - Fran nerwowo przemierzała pokój)
