Definition of pace

"pace" in the noun sense

1. pace, gait

the rate of moving (especially walking or running)

2. footstep, pace, step, stride

the distance covered by a step

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

3. pace, 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"

4. pace, stride, tread

a step in walking or running

5. tempo, pace

the rate of some repeating event

6. yard, pace

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

"pace" in the verb sense

1. pace

walk with slow or fast paces

"He paced up and down the hall"

2. pace

go at a pace

"The horse paced"

3. pace, step

measure (distances) by pacing

"step off ten yards"

4. pace

regulate or set the pace of

"Pace your efforts"

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Quotations for pace

Wants keep pace with wealth always. [ J. G. Holland ]

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time. [ William Shakespeare ]

With equal pace, impartial fate.
Knocks at the palace and the cottage gate. [ Horace ]

Sleep and death, two twins of winged race,
Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace. [ Pope ]

He that stumbles and falls not, mends his pace. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. [ Emerson ]

Through the lone groves would pace in solemn mood.
Wooing the pensive charms of solitude. [ Pye ]

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one pace. [ Lao-Tze ]

Alas! no fleshly pinion will so easily keep pace with the wings of the spirit. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your dull ass will not mend his pace with beating. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation; the two keep pace in their downward tendency. [ Goethe ]

The night, proceeding on with silent pace, stood in her noon, and viewed with equal face her sleepy rise and her declining race. [ Dryden ]

Some kind of pace may be got out of the veriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood. [ Lowell ]

Genius grafted on womanhood is like to overgrow it and break its stem, as you may see a grafted fruit-tree spreading over the stock which cannot keep pace with its evolutions. [ Holmes ]

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace, from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. [ William Shakespeare ]

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable. Let us begin where she begins, go her pace, and close always where she ends, and we cannot miss of being good naturalists. [ William Penn ]

Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at pace, and above the world. But the law of association often makes those who begin by loving gold as a servant finish by becoming themselves its slaves; and independence without wealth is at least as common as wealth without independence. [ Colton ]

pace in Scrabble®

The word pace is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters pace:

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pace in Words With Friends™

The word pace is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters pace:

CAPE
(54)
PACE
(54)
 

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Word Growth involving pace

Shorter words in pace

ace

pa

Longer words containing pace

carapace

counterpace counterpaced

counterpace counterpaces

drupaceous

footpace footpaces

halfpace

outpace outpaced

outpace outpaces

paceboard

paced counterpaced

paced outpaced

paced repaced

paced slowpaced

paced snailpaced

paced spaced backspaced

paced spaced letterspaced

paced spaced misspaced

paced spaced monospaced

paced spaced namespaced

paced spaced respaced

paced spaced singlespaced

paced spaced spacedout

paced spaced unspaced

paced spaced widespaced

pacemaker pacemakers

pacemaking

paceman spaceman

pacemen spacemen

pacer pacers spacers backspacers

pacer spacer backspacer backspacers

pacer spacer spacers backspacers

paces counterpaces

paces footpaces

paces outpaces

paces pacesetter pacesetters

paces pacesetting

paces repaces

paces spaces airspaces

paces spaces backspaces

paces spaces crawlspaces

paces spaces cyberspaces

paces spaces eigenspaces

paces spaces hyperspaces

paces spaces letterspaces

paces spaces misspaces

paces spaces namespaces

paces spaces respaces

paces spaces spacesaved

paces spaces spacesaver spacesavers

paces spaces spacesaves

paces spaces spacesaving

paces spaces spaceship spaceships

paces spaces spacesuit spacesuits

paces spaces subspaces

paces spaces whitespaces

paces spaces workspaces

quarterpace

repace repaced

repace repaces

space aerospace

space airspace airspaces

space backspace backspaced

space backspace backspacer backspacers

space backspace backspaces

space breathingspace

space crawlspace crawlspaces

space cyberspace cyberspaces

space eigenspace eigenspaces

space floorspace

space freespace

space hyperspace hyperspaces

space letterspace letterspaced

space letterspace letterspaces

space misspace misspaced

space misspace misspaces

space namespace namespaced

space namespace namespaces

space respace respaced

space respace respaces

space snailspace

space spaceage

space spacecraft spacecrafts

space spaced backspaced

space spaced letterspaced

space spaced misspaced

space spaced monospaced

space spaced namespaced

space spaced respaced

space spaced singlespaced

space spaced spacedout

space spaced unspaced

space spaced widespaced

space spacefill spacefilled

space spacefill spacefiller spacefillers

space spacefill spacefilling

space spacefill spacefills

space spaceflight spaceflights

space spaceless

space spaceman

space spacemen

space spaceplane spaceplanes

space spaceport spaceports

space spacer backspacer backspacers

space spacer spacers backspacers

space spaces airspaces

space spaces backspaces

space spaces crawlspaces

space spaces cyberspaces

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space spaces spacesuit spacesuits

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space spacewalk spacewalking

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space spaceward

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space unspaceworthy

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