Phrase Hound found 10 phrases and 72 compound words that contain paces. The most common are listed below. Open paces in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 10
- put someone through their pacesTo direct a horse to walk, canter, trot, etc.
- foot pacesplural of foot pace: A walking pace or step.
- paces offthird-person singular simple present indicative of pace off: To count steps.
- paces oneselfthird-person singular simple present indicative of pace oneself: To behave in a slow and careful way in order not to overexert oneself.
- paces outthird-person singular simple present indicative of pace out: To make a measurement by counting the number of equally spaced steps.
- snail pacesplural of snail pace: A frustratingly slow rate of speed.
- walking pacesplural of walking pace: The speed at which a person or animal usually walks.
- handbags at ten pacesSynonym of handbags at dawn (“a catty squabble”).
- geometrical pacesplural of geometrical pace: A unit of measure used in the 16th century, defined as "five feet" or "five geometrical feet".
- cinque-pacesplural of cinque-pace: A lively dance, the galliard, whose steps were regulated by the number five.
Compound words 72
- namespacesplural of namespace: A conceptual space that groups classes, identifiers, etc. in order to avoid conflicts with items in unrelated code that carry the same names.
- workspacesplural of workspace: An area allocated for someone to work in, especially in an office.
- subspacesplural of subspace: A subset of a space which is a space in its own right.
- tablespacesplural of tablespace: A storage location where the actual data underlying the objects in a database can be kept.
- outpacesthird-person singular simple present indicative of outpace: To go faster than; to exceed the pace of.
- whitespacesplural of whitespace: White area between written characters and graphic regions on a produced page or computer display; blanks and the vertical blank lines in between paragraphs, or other organized rows of text lines (poetry).
- greenspacesplural of greenspace: An area of undeveloped landscape, such as parkland left within a city during planning and zoning other areas for development.
- bispacesplural of bispace: A bitopological space.
- aerospacesplural of aerospace: The atmosphere of the Earth and the region of space around it.
- agentspacesplural of agentspace: The conceptual space within which software agents operate and interact.