Dictionary Entry
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
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- 1noun
A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
A slow gait; a footpace.
- 5noun
Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack.
- 6noun
Any single movement, step, or procedure.
- 7noun
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.
- 8noun
A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web.
- 9intransitive verb
To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps.
- 10intransitive verb
To proceed; to pass on.
- 11intransitive verb
To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack.
- 12intransitive verb
To pass away; to die.
- 13transitive verb
To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round.
- 14transitive verb
To measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of ground.
- 15transitive verb
To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in.
- 16noun
a step in walking or running
- 17noun
the relative speed of progress or change
"he lived at a fast pace"
"he works at a great rate"
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- 18noun
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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- 19noun
the distance covered by a step
"he stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig"
- 20noun
the rate of moving (especially walking or running)
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- 21noun
the rate of some repeating event
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- 22verb
measure (distances) by pacing
"step off ten yards"
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- 23verb
regulate or set the pace of
"Pace your efforts"
- 24verb
walk with slow or fast paces
"He paced up and down the hall"
- 25verb
go at a pace
"The horse paced"
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