pacing
Meaning of pacing
verb, gerund or present participle
- walk at a steady speed, especially without a particular destination and as an expression of anxiety or annoyance.
we paced up and down in exasperation
she had been pacing the room
- move or develop (something) at a particular rate or speed.
the action is paced to the beat of a perky march
our fast-paced daily lives
Middle English: from Old French pas, from Latin passus ‘stretch (of the leg)’, from pandere ‘to stretch’.
Information about pacing
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of pacing
pac-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- pacing is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
pacing synonyms
Meaning tempo:
Meaning move at a regular pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, never having both feet off the ground at once:
Meaning walk with long, decisive steps in a specified direction:
Meaning walk in a specified way:
Meaning walk in a military manner with a regular measured tread:
Meaning a unit of weight equal to 16 oz. avoirdupois (0.4536 kg), or 12 oz. troy (0.3732 kg):
Meaning keep watch over (an area) by regularly walking or travelling around it:
Meaning go or extend across or to the other side of (an area, stretch of water, etc.):
Meaning travel across or through:
Anagrams of pacing
Words that rhyme with pacing
Macing, acing, afacing, aggracing, antiracing, backspacing, belacing, boldfacing, bracing, catfacing, chacing, commonplacing, counterbracing, defacing, disgracing, dispacing, displacing, effacing, embacing, embracing, emplacing, enfacing, engracing, enlacing, enracing, facing, footracing, furnacing, gracing, grimacing, horseracing, inlacing, interembracing, interfacing, interlacing, interspacing, intertracing, lacing, letterspacing, macing, manacing, medevacing, menacing, microspacing, misplacing, misspacing, mistracing, necklacing, nonfacing, nonmenacing
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