change-up change-of-pace change-of-pace ball off-speed pitch | a baseball thrown with little velocity when the batter is expecting a fastball |
pace stride tread | a step in walking or running |
| pace lap | the first lap of a car race that prepares the cars for a fast start |
| pace car | a high-performance car that leads a parade of competing cars through the pace lap and then pulls off the course |
| pace rate | the relative speed of progress or change, he lived at a fast pace, he works at a great rate, the pace of events accelerated |
yard pace | a unit of length equal to feet, defined as . centimeters, originally taken to be the average length of a stride |
| Roman pace | an ancient Roman unit of length (. English feet) measured as the distance from the heel of one foot to the heel of the same foot when next it touches the ground |
| geometric pace | a modern version of the Roman pace now taken to be feet |
| military pace | the length of a single step in marching (taken to beinches for quick time or inches for double time) |
footstep pace step stride | the distance covered by a step, he stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig |
pace gait | the rate of moving (especially walking or running) |
tempo pace | the rate of some repeating event |
animate recreate reanimate revive renovate repair quicken vivify revivify | give new life or energy to, A hot soup will revive me, This will renovate my spirits, This treatment repaired my health |
| quicken | show signs of life, the fetus quickened |
accelerate speed up speed quicken | move faster, The car accelerated |
quicken invigorate | give life or energy to, The cold water invigorated him |
pace step | measure (distances) by pacing, step off ten yards |
| pace | regulate or set the pace of, Pace your efforts |
keep step keep pace | maintain the same pace, The child cannot keep step with his big brother |
| pace | walk with slow or fast paces, He paced up and down the hall |
| pace | go at a pace, The horse paced |
whet quicken | make keen or more acute, whet my appetite |