Pace

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1. Noun

A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.

2. Noun

The length of a step in walking or marching, reckoned from the heel of one foot to the heel of the other; -- used as a unit in measuring distances; as, he advanced fifty paces.

3. Noun

Manner of stepping or moving; gait; walk; as, the walk, trot, canter, gallop, and amble are paces of the horse; a swaggering pace; a quick pace.

4. Noun

A slow gait; a footpace.

5. Noun

Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack.

6. Noun

Any single movement, step, or procedure.

7. Noun

A broad step or platform; any part of a floor slightly raised above the rest, as around an altar, or at the upper end of a hall.

8. Noun

A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web.

9. Verb

To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps.

10. Verb

To proceed; to pass on.

11. Verb

To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack.

12. Verb

To pass away; to die.

13. Verb

To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round.

14. Verb

To measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of ground.

15. Verb

To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in.

16. Noun

the rate of moving (especially walking or running)
Vocabulary classified under Academic vocabulary

17. Noun

the rate of some repeating event
Vocabulary classified under Academic vocabulary

18. Noun

the relative speed of progress or change; "he lived at a fast pace"; "he works at a great rate"; "the pace of events accelerated"
Vocabulary classified under Economics
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