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pace English

Meaning pace meaning

What does pace mean?
Definitions in simple English

pace Noun

— The pace of something is how fast it moves. The pace of change has been very, very slow. Today, the pace of life is so much faster than it used to be. They were frustrated at the pace of development that was taking place there. — Somebody's pace is their speed, usually walking. He quickened his pace, almost running. The man's long legs forced Kev to pick up his pace. — A pace is the distance between your feet when you walk. She stopped three paces from the table.

pace Verb

— Walk back and forth in a small space. Groups of men, in all imaginable attitudes, were lying, standing, sitting, or pacing up and down. — Set the speed in a race. — Measure by walking.

pace Preposition

— Contrary to the opinion of; Used to express polite disagreement Nor, pace Bush, must all countries be with America or against it.

pace

— noun the rate of moving (especially walking or running) — verb walk with slow or fast paces He paced up and down the hall — verb go at a pace The horse paced — noun (= step) the distance covered by a step he stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig — noun (= rate) the relative speed of progress or change he lived at a fast pace he works at a great rate the pace of events accelerated — verb (= step) measure (distances) by pacing step off ten yards — noun a step in walking or running — verb regulate or set the pace of Pace your efforts — noun (= tempo) the rate of some repeating event — noun (= yard) a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride

Synonyms pace synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as pace?

pace English » English

step stride speed walk gait tread footstep velocity rate tempo cadence yard walking walk up and down take a step swiftness stroll straddle stalk rapidity quickness pacing measure foot carriage amble way walk slowly walk quickly walk back and forth view tribune trekking treadle trail tone toddle time throb swing strut street step on stair landing stair stage speediness speed of a pitched ball space between two footsteps snappiness

Pace English » English

Paise

Topics pace topics

What do people use pace to talk about?
Physical actions Move Manner of movement

Walk
Physical actions Move Manner of movement

Move quickly
Physical actions Move Manner of movement Walk

Run

  • What words refer to how fast you are running?
    pace
States Big

Measure
States Time

Speed
Physical actions Move Manner of movement Move quickly

Move slowly
Physical actions Move Accompany

Follow
States Big

Long
States Time Speed

Slow

Conjugation pace conjugation

How do you conjugate pace?

pace · verb

Examples pace examples

How do I use pace in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The pace of events is accelerating.
We have not kept pace with the latest research.
I wish I could live at a more relaxed pace, instead of having to watch the clock all the time.
Please don't walk so fast. I can't keep pace with you.
The locals around here really live at a relaxed pace.
Work pace is left up to the individual employee.
I can't keep pace with you.
They're doing their work at a snail's pace!
His salary can't keep pace with inflation.
His pace quickened.
The traffic crept along at a snail's pace.
He kept pace with her.
Tom needs a change of pace.
Each person matures at his own pace.
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
Let's do it at our own pace without hurrying.
Pace yourself.
Pace down.
When it started to get dark, I quickened my pace.
We didn't run fast, but kept up a good steady pace.
At a moment when our economy is growing, our businesses are creating jobs at the fastest pace since the 1990s, and wages are starting to rise again, we have to make some choices about the kind of country we want to be.

Movie subtitles

Some pace, eh?
You have every chance of seeing things if you lower Scotch at that pace.
I, myself, unable to keep pace with his mental quirks and fearful of assault. turned down an opportunity to represent him as his attorney.
Everything is going quite smoothly. We're building up arms at full pace.
If your belly keeps pace with your head, you'll have a bigger one than any of us.
They were crawling at a snail's pace.
All the rush and the fuss. It sort of changes your pace, rests you.
It'd be a change of pace for Ladd.
Make her turn with pace and swing, make her turn and returns to the circle.
I don't get the change of pace.
Red Rock 1, Red Rock 1, this is Ant Pace.
Let's pick up the pace!
It's small, but it's there all the time, keeping pace with the convoy.
But at the start, the pace is slow. Slow.
At those physical speeds, your senses should not be able to keep pace, but you still have perception and control and can even plan ahead.
We didn't figure this pace.
I, myself, unable to keep pace with his mental quirks and fearful of assault, turned down an opportunity to represent him as his attorney.
At this pace?
A complete change of pace.
Cosgrave, must you pace up and down like a monkey in a ruddy cage?
McLaughlin's setting a very fast pace with his mare around the turn.
Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace.
Pick up the pace!
Be a good change of pace for Ladd.
Let's have a little change of pace.
And why, as you English say, the pace that kills.
He paints at a snail's pace, for Pete's sake.
See this slow, regal and peaceful pace.
But please consider the frenetic pace at which she is forced to live.
She'll be nice to you, a change of pace.
The pair you see trying to keep pace are your companions.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions. perhaps it's because he hears a different drummer.
Friendship is a great feeling, but actually it grows from small things. We walk at the same pace.
Petrocinetti and Camurati didn't go even one meter at a normal pace.
Mind your wind, slow the pace!
Thanks Jenda, that will work for now. Pace off the length will you?
I'll pace from that wall and back again.
If we set a faster pace, we could make it before sundown on the 12th.
We walk the same road only today, and not even at the same pace.

News and current affairs

Second, global financial reform must proceed at a faster pace.
The central driver of all this is today's enormous acceleration in the underlying pace of technological and economic change.
In many countries, this is leading to a new round of austerity - policies that will almost surely lead to weaker national and global economies and a marked slowdown in the pace of recovery.
President Barack Obama officially ended the war in Iraq, and is withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan at a pace constrained only by the need to save face.
Demand growth at a pace that in any previous decade would have been seen as highly satisfactory is suddenly desperately insufficient, and Bush is being blamed (with some justice) for the slack labor market that has resulted.
The pace of job creation has increased, indicators for manufacturing and services have improved, and consumption spending has been stronger than anticipated.
Instead of hunting, fishing, and clearing land without regard for the impact on other species, we need to pace our agricultural production, fishing, and logging in line with the environment's carrying capacity.
Globalization proceeded at a rapid pace through much of the last century, and at a particularly accelerated rate during its last two decades.
The peak ratio and the subsequent downward trajectory depend crucially on the assumed pace of economic growth.
At the same time, population growth decreased, adding at least another point to the pace of per capita growth.
Even in the aftermath of the financial crisis, the giddy pace of technological change is likely to continue to drive globalization, but the political effects will be different for the world of nation-states and the world of non-state actors.
There is more: state and local budget-cutting has slowed America's pace of investment in human capital and infrastructure, adding a third percentage point to the downward shift in the country's long-term growth trajectory.
The pace of change has varied markedly within regions and across cultural sub-groups.
Many international observers believe that politics simply no longer matters much in Britain, because the economy is fundamentally sound and growing at a fairly healthy pace.
The Japan Investment Bank's decision to invest in port development in Burma - essential if the economy, too, is to be opened - is one positive sign that the world will keep pace with Thein Sein step for step.
Moreover, hiring seems to be holding at that brisk pace in early 2015.
The world has moved from the Cold War to the Global Information Age, but the dominant foreign policy paradigms have not kept pace.
There is no way to know whether the rate of growth of multifactor productivity will remain at its current level or will revert to the pre-2000 pace.
BERKELEY - The United States continues to recover from its deepest economic slump since the Great Depression, but the pace of recovery remains frustratingly slow.
ARLINGTON - The rapprochement between the United States and Myanmar (Burma) has proceeded at a blistering pace.
The rapid rise in saving has reduced consumer spending, slowing the pace of GDP growth in 2009 and in early 2010.
But if households instead become optimistic about the pace of recovery, they might choose to cut back on their saving in order to maintain consumption, despite weak earnings.
For example, at the first trilateral summit, held in May 2008, as the global economic crisis was gathering pace, currency-swap arrangements were agreed upon among the three powers.
Given these advantages, the pace of internationalization has been swift.
And, while this reflects changes in relative importance, European banks' business volumes might have increased in absolute terms even in the US, though at a slower pace than elsewhere.
All of these factors increase the pace of economic growth.
As with homebuyers, all would be well, the reasoning went, on the premise that home prices continue to rise at a healthy pace.

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