Trip vs Pace - What's the difference?
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A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
* (Alexander Pope)
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A stumble or misstep.
(figurative) An error; a failure; a mistake.
* (John Milton)
* Harte
A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
A faux pas, a social error.
Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
(engineering) A mechanical or electrical cutout device.
A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
* Sir (Walter Scott)
(obsolete) A small piece; a morsel; a bit.
* (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
* (John Dryden)
* South
(nautical) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
(obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) A herd or flock of sheep, goats, etc.
(obsolete) A troop of men; a host.
A flock of wigeons.
(Webster 1913)
To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot.
To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble.
* 1912 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc.
* John Locke
* South
* Dryden
(obsolete) To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.
* Shakespeare
To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
To be activated, as by a signal or an event.
To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
To journey, to make a trip.
(dated) To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip.
* Milton
* Dryden
(nautical) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
(nautical) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
(poker slang) Of or relating to .
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(obsolete) Passage, route.
# (obsolete) One's journey or route.
# (obsolete) A passage through difficult terrain; a mountain pass or route vulnerable to ambush etc.
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# (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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(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.
Trip is a related term of pace.
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English
Noun
(en noun)- I took a trip to London on the death of the queen.
- Imperfect words, with childish trips .
- Each seeming trip , and each digressive start.
- His heart bounded as he sometimes could hear the trip of a light female step glide to or from the door.
- A trip of cheese.
- And watches with a trip his foe to foil.
- It is the sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.
- (Robert of Brunne)
Derived terms
* bad trip * boat trip * business trip * day trip * ego trip * fam trip * field trip * guilt trip * head trip * power trip * road trip * round trip * trip down memory lane * trip hop * trippy * trip to the woodshedVerb
- Be careful not to trip on the tree roots.
- A pedestrian was able to trip the burglar as he was running away.
- Early in his boyhood he had learned to form ropes by twisting and tying long grasses together, and with these he was forever tripping Tublat or attempting to hang him from some overhanging branch.
- till his tongue trip
- A blind will thereupon comes to be led by a blind understanding; there is no remedy, but it must trip and stumble.
- Virgil is so exact in every word that none can be changed but for a worse; he pretends sometimes to trip , but it is to make you think him in danger when most secure.
- These her women can trip me if I err.
- When we get into the factory, trip the lights.
- The alarm system tripped , throwing everyone into a panic.
- After taking the LSD, I started tripping about fairies and colors.
- Last summer we tripped to the coast.
- Come, and trip it, as you go, / On the light fantastic toe.
- She bounded by, and tripped so light / They had not time to take a steady sight.
Derived terms
* trip out * trip over * tripper * trip the light fantastic * trip up * tripwireAdjective
(-)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.