Rate
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An amount measured in relation to another amount. A price or fee determined in relation to a particular scale or standard. A price per unit for a service or product. The relative speed of change or progress. A measure of the frequency of a given event, typically expressed as the number of occurrences of the event for every thousand or hundred thousand people in the total population considered. Wages calculated in relation to a unit of time. A level of quality.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level. To evaluate or estimate the value of. To consider or regard. To deserve; to be worth. To determine the limits of safe functioning for a machine or electrical device. (chiefly ) To evaluate a property's value for the purposes of local taxation. To like; to think highly of. To have position (in a certain class). To have value or standing. To berate.
Example sentence: If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form.
Pace
Part of speech: preposition
Definition: With all due respect to.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A step taken with the foot.An English Customary Unit of distance measuring approximately five feet.Speed or velocity.A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing.For ground forces, the speed of a column or element regulated to maintain a prescribed average speed.A 2-beat, lateral gait of a horse.The collective noun for donkeys.Easter.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: Walk to and fro in a small space.Set the speed in a race.Measure by walking.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls.
Example sentence: When doing your aerobic exercise, go at a comfortable pace until you've developed more stamina.