Definitions for PACE

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PACE pace

Spelling: [peys]

IPA: /peɪs/

Pace is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in PACE (acep).

Definitions for PACE

noun

1. a rate of movement, especially in stepping, walking, etc.:
2. a rate of activity, progress, growth, performance, etc.; tempo.
3. any of various standard linear measures, representing the space naturally measured by the movement of the feet in walking: roughly 30 to 40 inches (75 cm to 1 meter). Compare geometrical pace, military pace, Roman pace.
4. a single step:
5. the distance covered in a step:
6. a manner of stepping; gait.
7. a gait of a horse or other animal in which the feet on the same side are lifted and put down together.
8. any of the gaits of a horse.
9. a raised step or platform.

Idioms

1. put through one's paces, to cause someone to demonstrate his or her ability or to show her or his skill:
2. set the pace, to act as an example for others to equal or rival; be the most progressive or successful:

preposition

1. with all due respect to; with the permission of:

verb (used with object)

1. to set the pace for, as in racing.
2. to traverse or go over with steps:
3. to measure by paces.
4. to train to a certain pace; exercise in pacing:
5. (of a horse) to run (a distance) at a pace:

verb (used without object)

1. to take slow, regular steps.
2. to walk up and down nervously, as to expend nervous energy.
3. (of a horse) to go at a pace.

Origin of PACE

1250-1300; Middle English pas Old French Latin passus step, pace, equivalent to pad-, variant stem of pandere to spread (the legs, in walking) + -tus suffix of v. action, with dt > ss

Examples for PACE

Please know that these judgmental feelings truly have no pace in my heart.

He began to pace the floor again from one room to the other.

Overall, the film moves along with the pace of a worsening snowstorm.

He made it his point to see that she was never urged beyond that pace.

But at the same time, both of those roles offered the opportunity of a change in pace.

Being reminded that economic and social conditions are not improving at the pace one expected can be a powerful motivator.

Wheatcroft uses the app RunKeeper, which reads aloud distance and pace information.

Now, she quickened her pace, anxious for the plunge that should set the term to sorrow.

He should then pace the distance between himself and that animal.

He was followed by two young women, who flanked him by a pace or so to the rear.