Difference between Step and Pace

What is the difference between Step and Pace?

Step as a verb is 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. while Pace as a verb is walk to and fro in a small space.

Step

Part of speech: verb

Definition: 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 walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance. To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely. To move mentally; to go in imagination. To set, as the foot. To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace. 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 running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus. The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress. A small space or distance. A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track. A gait; manner of walking. Proceeding; measure; action; act. () A walk; passage. (plural): 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; specif., a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast. 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 bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves. The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale. A change of position effected by a motion of translation. - William Kingdon Clifford

Example sentence: Every failure is a step to success.

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: I hate going out for lunch during a workday because it slows down my pace and ruins my rhythm. I prefer to eat at my desk. Actually, I wander around the design studio with a plate in my hand as I dine on, for example, salmon sashimi and a salad of tomatoes and mozzarella. I often have a bit of dark chocolate after lunch.

We hope you now know whether to use Step or Pace in your sentence.

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