pace vs step

pace

verb
  • To walk back and forth in a small distance. 

  • To set the speed in a race. 

  • To measure by walking. 

prep
  • With all due respect to. 

adj
  • Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls. 

noun
  • Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait. 

  • The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements. 

  • A group of donkeys. 

  • Easter. 

  • A step taken with the foot. 

  • A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet. 

  • Speed or velocity in general. 

  • A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing. 

step

verb
  • To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance. 

  • To dance. 

  • To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely. 

  • To move mentally; to go in imagination. 

  • To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession. 

  • To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect. 

  • To set, as the foot. 

noun
  • The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running. 

  • The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale. 

  • A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus. 

  • The part of a spade, digging stick or similar tool that a digger's foot rests against and presses on when digging; an ear, a foot-rest. 

  • A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder. 

  • A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track. 

  • Proceeding; measure; action; act. 

  • One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs. 

  • A small space or distance. 

  • A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position. 

  • A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast. 

  • A gait; manner of walking. 

  • An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace. 

  • A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves. 

  • A change of position effected by a motion of translation. 

  • A walk; passage. 

  • A distinct part of a process; stage; phase. 

  • A stepchild. 

  • A stepsibling. 

  • A constant difference between consecutive values in a series. 

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