Difference between Tread and Pace

What is the difference between Tread and Pace?

Tread as a verb is to step on or over. while Pace as a verb is walk to and fro in a small space.

Tread

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To step on or over. To beat with one's feet; to trample

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction. The bottom of a sneaker or tennis shoe, also used to give it traction. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a run.

Example sentence: All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

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 just stay in my own lane and not worry about what anyone else is doing and settling my own pace.

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

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