pace

pace is a 4-letter English word with 25 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 25 senses

Definitions

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. intransitive verb. To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps.
10. intransitive verb. To proceed; to pass on.
11. intransitive verb. To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack.
12. intransitive verb. To pass away; to die.
13. transitive verb. To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round.
14. transitive verb. To measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of ground.
15. transitive verb. To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in.
16. noun. a step in walking or running

    Synonyms: stride, tread

17. noun. the relative speed of progress or change

    "he lived at a fast pace"

    "he works at a great rate"

    Synonyms: rate

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

    Synonyms: yard

19. noun. the distance covered by a step

    "he stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig"

    Synonyms: footstep, step, stride

20. noun. the rate of moving (especially walking or running)

    Synonyms: gait

21. noun. the rate of some repeating event

    Synonyms: tempo

22. verb. measure (distances) by pacing

    "step off ten yards"

    Synonyms: step

23. verb. regulate or set the pace of

    "Pace your efforts"

24. verb. walk with slow or fast paces

    "He paced up and down the hall"

25. verb. go at a pace

    "The horse paced"

Synonyms

stride, tread, rate, yard, footstep, step, gait, tempo

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in pace:

cape, cepa

Common word forms

paced, pacer, paces, pacing

Words from these letters

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