Pace

[pace]

Pace is how fast something travels a particular distance, like a runner who tries to achieve a consistent pace, running each mile in more or less the same amount of time.

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Noun
a step in walking or running

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"

Noun
a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride

Noun
the distance covered by a step; "he stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig"

Noun
the rate of moving (especially walking or running)

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Noun
the rate of some repeating event

Verb
measure (distances) by pacing; "step off ten yards"

Verb
regulate or set the pace of; "Pace your efforts"

Verb
walk with slow or fast paces; "He paced up and down the hall"

Verb
go at a pace; "The horse paced"

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

n.
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.

n.
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.

n.
A slow gait; a footpace.

n.
Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack.

n.
Any single movement, step, or procedure.

n.
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.

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

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

v. i.
To proceed; to pass on.

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

v. i.
To pass away; to die.

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

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

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

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Usage Examples

My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.

As Ralph's character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That's the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul.

Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace.

A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.

I moved to New York last year and I love it. It's a huge change and I've always wanted to spend time there. It's like a more intense London, and everything's up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food's better.

I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.

Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.

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Other Usage Examples

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

I am growing and learning. There's so much more that I want to accomplish and do. I'm gonna do it at whatever pace it happens. I'm not trying to rush anything or slow anything down.

From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn't learning at the same pace as other kids.

It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

If you remember you just have one constituent, and that's God himself, and if you try to please him I think you usually come with a lot steadier pace and a lot more peace in your life.

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.