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单词 paced
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pacedadj.

Brit. /peɪst/, U.S. /peɪst/
Forms: 1500s paaste, 1500s pased, 1500s paste, 1500s–1700s pac't, 1500s– paced, 1600s pacst; also Scottish pre-1700 pacit, pre-1700 paised, pre-1700 paissed, pre-1700 paissit, pre-1700 pasced, pre-1700 peas'd.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pace v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < pace v. + -ed suffix1.
1. Having a particular pace, gait, or rate of walking or moving. Chiefly as the second element in compounds.For more established compounds, see the first element; recorded earliest in well-paced adj. 1, with reference to a woman metaphorically likened to a horse.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > [adjective] > having specific rate on foot
paced?1523
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [adjective] > having a specific gait
paced?1523
gaited1593
easy-going1843
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxiv The first [property of a woman] is to be mery of chere, the seconde to be well pased.
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xi. f. 138 His body..Was ponnisht in the part that did offend for want of skill. And so a slowe paaste Asses eares his heade did after beare.
1594 J. Dickenson Arisbas sig. G 3v An high-pac'd Muse treading a lofty march.
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xiii. 170 His brazen-footed steeds, All golden man'd, and pac't with wings.
1667 J. Dryden Indian Emperour iv. i Revenge is sure, though sometimes slowly pac'd.
1708 Boston News-let. 27 Sept. 4/2 On Monday the 13th of September last..a large bay Horse..with blackish Main and Tail, the Main hanging mostly on the off side, middle paced, Trots mostly..was stol'n or Rescoued and unlawfully taken and conveyed away.
1749 W. Hawkins Henry & Rosamond iii. i. 31 On the Flint Wear out the slow-pac'd Night!
1828 C. Lamb Child Angel in Elia 2nd Ser. 161 Humility and Aspiration went on even-paced.
1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 134 The greatest appreciable physical revolutions are the work of the light-footed air, the stealthy-paced water, and the subterranean fire.
1939 Fortune Oct. 49/3 To protect those profits..from the quick-paced competition of the chemical industry.
1990 Gramophone May 1982/2 A buoyant, ideally paced scherzo whose refulgent second subject Litton pointedly relishes even more on its second appearance.
2. Traversed or measured out in paces.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [adjective] > measured by pacing
paced1868
the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [adjective] > having specific manner of walking > walked with measured tread
paced1868
1868 Ld. Lytton Orval in New Poems II. 277 The primly-paced saloons of Art and Science.
1882 E. A. Floyer Unexplored Baluchistan 177 Hills, each with a paced base of from half a mile to a mile.
1933 Geogr. Rev. 23 567 (caption) Paced traverses and random lines of travel often widely spaced, particularly in barren country.
2000 Bobbin (Nexis) 1 Sept. 116 Some of our facilities have also built walking tracks on the grounds with paced distances.
3. Of an action: having a pace or rate of progress set by some external means, as by a pacemaker in a race. Also: occurring at intervals determined by some external factor.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [adjective] > types of race
well-run1601
unpaced1636
all-age1806
close-run1813
level1826
long distance1826
handicapped1828
neck and neck1828
timed1839
point-to-point1875
side by side1881
middle distance1886
paced1899
two-horse1976
the world > relative properties > measurement > [adjective] > measured
admeasured1340
metc1480
dimensurated1675
gauged1678
dimensioned1726
paced1953
1899 Daily News 8 Apr. 8/6 The National Cyclists' Union..forbade all riders holding its licences..to attempt a paced ride of any description on the road.
1953 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Nov. 295 The task..was simply to touch the contact corresponding to the one lamp which was alight. In one condition (the ‘paced’ one) the lamp went out.
1958 Oxf. Univ. Gaz. 27 Jan. 523/2 This year has seen the conclusion of a programme of work on ‘Conditions influencing the rate of learning in paced and unpaced tasks’.
1993 Sci. Amer. July 57/2 The individual is given an antiarrhythmic drug. If paced stimuli now fail to trigger sustained tachycardia, the finding implies the drug should be helpful.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.?1523
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