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NOUN | 1 | pace, gait | The rate of moving (especially walking or running) |
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2 | pace, footstep, step, stride | The distance covered by a step | |
3 | pace, rate | The relative speed of progress or change | |
4 | pace, stride, tread | A step in walking or running | |
5 | pace, tempo | The rate of some repeating event | |
6 | pace, yard | A unit of length equal to 3 feet | |
VERB | 1 | pace | Walk with slow or fast paces |
2 | pace | Go at a pace | |
3 | pace, step | Measure (distances) by pacing | |
4 | pace | Regulate or set the pace of |
Sounds | pey's |
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Rhymes | ace / ACE, aerospace, airspace, and 64 more rhymes in eys at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | The rate of moving (especially walking or running). |
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Synonyms | gait |
Narrower | quick time; double time; beats per minute, bpm, metronome marking, M.M. |
Broader | rate |
Verbs | pace; pace; pace |
Meaning | The distance covered by a step. |
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Examples | "he stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig" |
Synonyms | footstep, step, stride |
Broader | indefinite quantity |
Verbs | pace; pace; pace |
Meaning | The relative speed of progress or change. |
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Examples | "he lived at a fast pace"; "the pace of events accelerated" |
Synonyms | rate |
Narrower | speed, swiftness, fastness; beat; celerity, quickness, rapidity; slowness, deliberation, deliberateness, unhurriedness |
Broader | temporal property |
Verbs | pace; pace |
Meaning | A step in walking or running. |
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Synonyms | stride, tread |
Part of | walk, walking |
Broader | step |
Verbs | pace; pace; pace |
Meaning | The rate of some repeating event. |
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Synonyms | tempo |
Broader | rate |
Verbs | pace |
Meaning | A unit of length equal to 3 feet. Defined as 91.44 centimeters. Originally taken to be the average length of a stride. |
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Synonyms | yard |
Part of | perch, rod, pole; chain; lea; fathom, fthm |
Parts | foot, ft |
Broader | linear unit |
Verbs | pace |
Meaning | Walk with slow or fast paces. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s PP |
Model | They pace up the hill |
Examples | "He paced up and down the hall" |
Broader | walk |
Nouns | pace; pacing; pace; pace; pace |
Meaning | Go at a pace. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s |
Examples | "The horse paced" |
Narrower | canter; walk; single-foot, rack; gallop |
Broader | travel, go, move, locomote |
Nouns | pacer; pace; pace; pace |
Meaning | Measure (distances) by pacing. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Synonyms | step |
Broader | quantify, measure |
Nouns | pace; pace; pace; pace |
Meaning | Regulate or set the pace of. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Examples | "Pace your efforts" |
Broader | determine, shape, mold, influence, regulate |
Nouns | pace; pacer; pace |