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pace is a noun and verb meaning "the rate of moving (especially walking or running)". It carries 10 recorded senses.
the rate of moving (especially walking or running)
the distance covered by a step
“he stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig”
the relative speed of progress or change
“he lived at a fast pace”
“he works at a great rate”
“the pace of events accelerated”
the rate of some repeating event
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pace come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.