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pace

Definition

  • noun: the speed at which someone or something moves
  • noun: rate of movement
  • verb: to walk back and forth across the same space again and again especially because you are nervous
  • verb: to walk with often slow or measured tread
  • usually plural
  • synonyms: step, gait, walk

Examples

  • Despite quickly advancing medical technology, the 'pace' [=(more commonly) 'rate'] of change in her field remained slow and steady.

  • The winner finished in 4 minutes, 30 seconds, and the next runner was three seconds 'off the pace'. [=finished three seconds later]

  • The law has not 'kept pace with' technology. [=the law has not changed fast enough to reflect changes in technology]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) ReaIIy, you are. - Isn't he the nicest guy? - The best. That was the most sickening dispIay - I've ever seen. - I disagree. I'm wearing her down. Buddy, you need a IittIe change of pace. Tonight, I'II take you on a Iove safari. Deep into the darkest heart of the urban jungIe. TeII me more, bwana. (..)
    1994 The Mask