What's the difference between outpace and pace?

Outpace


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To outgo; to move faster than; to leave behind.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The district’s $110bn of economic activity went up by 22% since 2007, outpacing city growth by 9% during the same period.
  • (2) For the first time since the second quarter of 2009, the eurozone outpaced the US economy," said Carsten Brzeski at ING.
  • (3) We will continue to put people at the centre of our relief efforts and do everything we can to respond quickly and effectively, but the rising scale of need is outpacing our capacity to respond.” This year has seen a sharp rise in the number of people affected by conflict, with millions forced to flee their homes and left dependent on humanitarian aid.
  • (4) The league's annual selection meeting has been around since 1936, but it has increased in popularity in recent years at a rate that outpaces any other major event in the sporting world.
  • (5) Some argue that it's only a matter of time; girls are doing exceedingly well in school, outpacing their male peers in almost every subject.
  • (6) The speed – as well as the size – of the temperature rise is crucial too, warned scientists from Oxford University, as faster rates of global warming could outpace the ability of human civilisation and the natural world to adapt.
  • (7) The 24-year-old, who set the world record in July, tired of a tactical race and hit the front with two laps to go, outpacing the field over the final 800m to win in 4min 8.09sec.
  • (8) 6 Music long ago outpaced Radio 3 in the volume of listening – 16.2m hours v 10.5m.
  • (9) The ease with which Costa outpaced Coloccini, then cut back inside to slide a pass across the area for Willian to score the third, was disturbing.
  • (10) Magna Carta Holy Grail received nods in almost every rap category, outpacing LPs by Kendrick Lamar and Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.
  • (11) So far this year 37 soldiers and military contractors have been killed in 27 such attacks, far outpacing the toll in 2011.
  • (12) In the music market, streaming is eating into downloads to the point where Spotify's streaming revenue is beginning to outpace iTunes' download revenue in certain parts of Europe – perhaps a catalyst for Apple's recent purchase of streaming service Beats Music.
  • (13) The emergence of bacterial resistance is outpacing the world’s capacity for antibiotic discovery,” Chan said.
  • (14) But prices are still rising much faster than wages, and Labour believes the argument that the cost of living is outpacing wage rises will continue to resonate with many voters, even as the economy improves.
  • (15) In the second quarter of this year, the OECD sees UK growth picking up to 3.1%, outpacing the United States, and all other countries in the G7 group of large economies apart from Canada.
  • (16) The low rate of inflation means that wages slightly outpaced inflation in September for the first time since 2009.
  • (17) The era is rapidly approaching when the use of implantable circulatory support devices will become commonplace and may outpace, and possibly outperform, the results currently obtained with cardiac transplantation.
  • (18) Meanwhile, for many developing countries, other sources of cash – such as private philanthropy and remittances sent home from migrant workers abroad – have far outpaced aid.
  • (19) A delightful flick behind Cole has Sterling skipping away down the right flank, the youngster outpacing the veteran straight away.
  • (20) "We are outpacing our competitors, and have seen Comet enter administration in the UK and Expert exiting the market in Sweden."

Pace


Definition:

  • (n.) A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.
  • (n.) The length of a step in walking or marching, reckoned from the heel of one foot to the heel of the other; -- used as a unit in measuring distances; as, he advanced fifty paces.
  • (n.) Manner of stepping or moving; gait; walk; as, the walk, trot, canter, gallop, and amble are paces of the horse; a swaggering pace; a quick pace.
  • (n.) A slow gait; a footpace.
  • (n.) Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack.
  • (n.) Any single movement, step, or procedure.
  • (n.) A broad step or platform; any part of a floor slightly raised above the rest, as around an altar, or at the upper end of a hall.
  • (n.) A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web.
  • (v. i.) To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps.
  • (v. i.) To proceed; to pass on.
  • (v. i.) To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack.
  • (v. i.) To pass away; to die.
  • (v. t.) To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round.
  • (v. t.) To measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of ground.
  • (v. t.) To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the stage 24 chick embryo, a paced increase in heart rate reduces stroke volume, presumably by rate-dependent decrease in passive filling.
  • (2) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
  • (3) All 3 drugs increased the basic cycle length of pacing at which VT was induced and the cycle time of the resulting VT.
  • (4) George Osborne said the 146,000 fall in joblessness marked "another step on the road to full employment" but Labour and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) seized on news that earnings were failing to keep pace with prices.
  • (5) Rapid right ventricular pacing increased the extent and degree of dyskinesia of the left ventricle, but premedication with nicorandil improved the wall motion.
  • (6) The decrease in cardiac performance observed during ventricular pacing was related to the severity of asynchrony rather than the direction of the ventricular depolarization or change in regional myocardial tension.
  • (7) Propafenone depressed the spontaneous heart rate and prolonged the postatrial pacing recovery times.
  • (8) The difference in APD between the first drive train and drive trains after at least 3 minutes of pacing when APD had stabilized was not significant for an inter-train pause exceeding 8 seconds.
  • (9) Twelve patients (group 1), all with coronary artery disease, produced myocardial lactate during pacing.
  • (10) During rapid pacing at 600, 500, 400, 350, 300, and 250 msec cycle lengths, mixed venous oxygen saturation decreased as cycle length decreased.
  • (11) Electrophysiological findings in the patients with LQTS showed no characteristic findings, but only mild abnormalities with functional atrioventricular conduction disturbance on programmed atrial pacing.
  • (12) For this purpose, the fastest possible self-paced single isometric forefinger extensions and the fastest alternating forefinger movements were tested.
  • (13) A "J-shaped" atrial lead was used for ventricular pacing with excellent long-term results.
  • (14) Advocates would point to the influence Giggs maintains in the United midfield – developing a more creative game from a central role to compensate for the loss of his once blistering pace.
  • (15) Use of sunglasses that block all ultraviolet radiation and severely attenuate high-energy visible radiation will slow the pace of ocular deterioration and delay the onset of age-related disease, thereby reducing its prevalence.
  • (16) The reasons are often financial, but can also be a desire for a change of pace or new experiences.
  • (17) Our strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae are isochromosomal and isomitochondrial due to all of them have originated from one haploid pace XII of Sacch.
  • (18) The effect of programmed electrical stimulation on the first post-pacing interval was determined during sustained ventricular tachycardia and, following its spontaneous termination during an episode when ectopic activity could only be induced by pacing.
  • (19) In tests on 13 cells pacing at a 200 mua drain without recharging, the simulated mean duration of pacing before total discharge was 4.8 years.
  • (20) To eliminate pacing stimulus afterpotential and detect an evoked response, a hardware feedback circuit and a software template matching algorithm were used to produce a triphasic charge-balanced pacing pulse.

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