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Pace   /peɪs/   Listen
Pace

noun
1.
The rate of moving (especially walking or running).  Synonym: gait.
2.
The distance covered by a step.  Synonyms: footstep, step, stride.
3.
The relative speed of progress or change.  Synonym: rate.  "He works at a great rate" , "The pace of events accelerated"
4.
A step in walking or running.  Synonyms: stride, tread.
5.
The rate of some repeating event.  Synonym: tempo.
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.
verb
(past & past part. paced; pres. part. pacing)
1.
Walk with slow or fast paces.
2.
Go at a pace.
3.
Measure (distances) by pacing.  Synonym: step.
4.
Regulate or set the pace of.



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"Pace" Quotes from Famous Books



... chums started off for a walk, their pace a brisk one, because the air after that recent spell of rain was quite cool and invigorating, Indeed, once Thad even deplored the fact that Mr. Leonard had thought it best to call off practice ...
— The Chums of Scranton High Out for the Pennant • Donald Ferguson
... dotted with little people—they seemed all heads and feet—looking up. And the balloon, released from the twenty-five stone or so of Mr. Butteridge and his lady, was rushing up into the sky at the pace of a racing motor-car. "My crikey!" said ...
— The War in the Air • Herbert George Wells
... went! The French galleys lumbering along at a great pace, their crews pulling a curiously short stroke, and their coxswains yelling "En avant, mes braves!" with all the strength of their lungs. It must have been very like the boat-race Virgil describes in the fifth book of the Aeneid. There was the "huge Chimaera" the "mighty Centaur" and possibly ...
— The Days Before Yesterday • Lord Frederick Hamilton
... her own nervous system, and she rushed upon the offending hen, and kept up this pace with such vigor that at the end of ten minutes she had run her down, taken her literally in hand, borne her squawking into the barn, jammed her down on the nest, and roofed it with boards, which she nailed on with rocks. This done, she returned ...
— The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives • Elizabeth Strong Worthington
... all in coats of mail, and two thousand five hundred men a-foot. And in this array they proceeded till they came in sight of the Moors. As soon as the Cid saw their tents he ordered his men to slacken their pace, and got upon his horse Bavieca, and put himself in the front before all his army, and his sons-in-law the Infantes of Carrion advanced themselves with him. Then the Bishop Don Hieronymo came to the Cid and said, This day have I said the mass of the Holy Trinity before you, I left my own ...
— Chronicle Of The Cid • Various


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