What's the difference between pace and stroll?

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.

Stroll


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.
  • (n.) A wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) George Clooney has strolled into one of the most bitter and longest-running controversies in the heritage world, saying it would be "very nice" if the British Museum sent the Parthenon Marbles back to Greece.
  • (2) For Manchester United this was a Saturday stroll that ended frantically, although the Premier League leaders' latest three points were made even sweeter by the return of their captain, Nemanja Vidic.
  • (3) Strolling around the perfectly formed FH training facility he laughs at the idea of one of these public spaces popping up in Britain.
  • (4) Just a short stroll from the start of this walk, the Norman Lockyer Observatory still holds two of his telescopes.
  • (5) I see a small group strolling along, a tall, handsome man at the centre.
  • (6) Around 100,000 Syrians live in Izmir, where until a few weeks ago when the EU-Turkey deal was put into effect, smugglers would stroll openly through the central square in the quarter of Basmane.
  • (7) The teams stroll out, Ivory Coast in their orange kit, Zambia wearing green tracksuit tops.
  • (8) Jason Puncheon is a lovely, careful passer of the ball and here he out-Cesc’ed Chelsea’s own midfield creator for long periods of the game, strolling about to great effect in his central playmaker role.
  • (9) Distance 1 mile (1.6km) Classification Gentle stroll Duration 1 hour 45 minutes Begins Salcombe Hill car park OS grid reference SY197889 Walk in a nutshell A mostly flat circuit around the summit of Salcombe Hill, which offers impressive views over the town of Sidmouth and, on a good day, as far as Portland Bill in Dorset.
  • (10) Not least when PSG aren’t just walking it in Ligue 1, they’re strolling, flaneur ing their way to another room-temperature domestic title, with seven league goals conceded away from home all season, territory and possession dominated each week.
  • (11) For a foodie reward, stroll to Rue Didot's row of boulangeries.
  • (12) I joined the Mayfair tour one Sunday afternoon, and for two and a half hours we strolled around looking at the offices of all the hedge funds and investment companies in the area.
  • (13) #rangers #kings #stanleycup June 12, 2014 2.56am BST Kings 1-2 Rangers, 4:22, 2nd period Williams sets up Stroll and he shoots wide of the net.
  • (14) Sometime after take-off, however, Pope Francis strolled to the back of the aircraft and gave them their answer.
  • (15) Those wanting to experience the concept of “shared space” and “naked streets” can stroll absentmindedly round any small town in Italy.
  • (16) Thankfully I only live a 10 minute stroll away from my office in central Bucharest.
  • (17) Brandon Belt stikes out, and then Gregor Blanco strolls to the plate.
  • (18) He strolls up, halts and strokes it into the bottom-right corner.
  • (19) Despite the lenses pressed against the glass, Yang Guang (his name means Sunshine) strolled around, his shoulders and hind quarters adopting the rolling gait of a prize fighter.
  • (20) A short stroll from Walker’s Point, where the ancestral estate of the Bush dynasty juts out commandingly into the Atlantic ocean, there is a political campaign slogan in urgent need of fresh clarification.