What's the difference between pace and pale?

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.

Pale


Definition:

  • (v. i.) Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.
  • (v. i.) Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon.
  • (n.) Paleness; pallor.
  • (v. i.) To turn pale; to lose color or luster.
  • (v. t.) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
  • (n.) A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket.
  • (n.) That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade.
  • (n.) A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively.
  • (n.) A stripe or band, as on a garment.
  • (n.) One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it.
  • (n.) A cheese scoop.
  • (n.) A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
  • (v. t.) To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Today, she wears an elegant salmon-pink blouse with white trousers and a long, pale pink coat.
  • (2) Platinum deer mice are conspicuously pale, with light ears and tail stripe.
  • (3) The inclusions were large, intracytoplasmic, pale, eosinophilic and kidney-shaped and were periodic acid-Schiff positive and HBsAg negative.
  • (4) The lesions were annular or serpiginous and their surface was livid-red to pale-red.
  • (5) At surgery, upon incision of the paravertebral muscle fascia, viscous pale fluid was encountered emanating from a foramen in the thoracic lamina.
  • (6) Large (about 2 micron in diameter), pale vacuoles, probably of extracellular character, were found mostly in the vicinity of the perivascular septum.
  • (7) Kidneys were approximately double the normal size and were pale tan to grey in color.
  • (8) Too distressed to utter more than a single word - "Devastated" - in the immediate aftermath of her withdrawal, a pale and red-eyed Radcliffe emerged yesterday to give her version of the events that ended the attempt to crown her career with a gold medal.
  • (9) In 1850 you could see Benjamin West’s ever popular vision of the apocalypse, Death on a Pale Horse , riding melodramatically back into view on Broadway for the fourth time in as many years; and a gallery of Rembrandts at Niblo’s theatre, where Charles Blondin once walked a tightrope.
  • (10) The main clinical symptoms were paleness, dark urine and oliguria.
  • (11) In our series of 31 patients, it was found that severe conductive hearing loss, abundant pale granulations, and denuded malleus handle are constant findings and, in our opinion, are significant clinical features of the pathology.
  • (12) But lest the duchess feel overlooked, the end section of the show featured long, pale-blue bias-cut crepe dresses with more of a charity gala feel; and knee-length silk crepe dresses with black grosgrain belts seemed princess friendly.
  • (13) Hatched chicks were small and had pale feathers, skin, skeletal muscles, bone marrow, and viscera.
  • (14) These immunoreactive pale cells occurred in the distal caput and proximal corpus of the epididymidis.
  • (15) Antibodies to Le(a), Le(b), and X showed no staining or only pale staining of less than 10% of the normal prostatic epithelial cells.
  • (16) The claim has stunned a community who knew him not as a pale spectre in Taliban videos but as the tall, affable young man who served coffee and deftly fended off jokes about Billy Elliot – he did ballet along with karate, fencing, paragliding and mountain biking.
  • (17) The numbers pale in comparison to the 24,000 jobs predicted to disappear from South Australia by the end of 2017 due to the collapse of car manufacturing.
  • (18) The incidence of dysplasia increased with increasing age and was significantly associated with pale skin type, excess sun exposure, and duration of allograft.
  • (19) Dendritic cells were characterized by their slender cytoplasmic processes, indented nucleus and pale cytoplasm.
  • (20) I find Harry Reid’s public comments and insults about Donald Trump and other Republicans to be beyond the pale,” she said.