[
US
/ˈpeɪs/
]
NOUN
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the distance covered by a step
he stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig - the rate of some repeating event
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the relative speed of progress or change
the pace of events accelerated
he lived at a fast pace
he works at a great rate - the rate of moving (especially walking or running)
- a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
- a step in walking or running
VERB
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walk with slow or fast paces
He paced up and down the hall -
measure (distances) by pacing
step off ten yards -
regulate or set the pace of
Pace your efforts -
go at a pace
The horse paced
How To Use pace In A Sentence
- You think Spielberg would only have a rattletrap third-rate spaceship like the Millennium Falcon to ensure his survival? Does George Lucas think the world will end in 2012?
- Background-position: background image in the canvas element in the targeted space, designated the upper left corner of the image relative to the level of canvas and vertical spacing interval .
- As for me, I was feeling a little spaced out and tired from my trip across the pond yesterday.
- The aerobrake - a huge, convex disc underneath the spacecraft - was producing friction with the Martian atmosphere.
- By recording the spectra of several distant quasars whose light pierces the Milky Way, the spacecraft revealed some 50 ultraviolet-absorbing gas clouds around our galaxy.
- Lastly, I am a bit of control freak with a blistering pace when it comes to work.
- 'When I was a little girl I used to slip away from my nurse, climb to the top of my uncle's keep and sit in the crenel spaces. The Falcons of Montabard
- I add a little extra for being all spaced-out, of course. Archive 2009-02-01
- The space left by evaporation is called the ullage, while the liquid lost is sometimes called the ‘angels' share’ and is particularly financially significant in the production of older cognac and Armagnac.
- On the ranges of Fort Devens, the troops were put through their paces on US weapons, from the stock-in-trade M16 assault rifle to the frighteningly-effective M249 SAW light machine gun.
