Pauce vs Pace - What's the difference?
pauce | pace |
Of or pertaining to paucity; being scarce or insufficient.
* 1966. T?hoku Daigaku. Science Reports , v.37-38 1965-1967, T?hoku University: 1966, Page 208,
* 1983. Academy of Political Science (U.S.) ''Political Science Quarterly; New York, v.98 (1983-84), Page 521,
* 1997. Tony Whitten, Roehayat Emon Soeriaatmadja, Suraya A. Afiff, Surya Affif. The Ecology of Java and Bali , Oxford University Press: 1997, Page 600,
(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.
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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:
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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.
As adjectives the difference between pauce and pace
is that pauce is of or pertaining to paucity; being scarce or insufficient while pace is describing a bowler who bowls fast balls.As a noun pace is
passage, route.As a verb pace is
walk to and fro in a small space.As a preposition pace is
with all due respect to.As an acronym PACE is
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of EuropeAs a proper noun Pace is
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The documentation was very pauce .
- ...although the foraminiferal content is pauce .
- Comparable information for the Soviets is pauce ; but the authors' observations are stimulating and plausible.
- So, although it is often asserted that monocultures lead to increased risks of disease and pest attack, the evidence is pauce .
Usage notes
* Generally a mistake by non-native speakers. ----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 .
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- 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.
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- 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.