Fast vs. Pace — What's the Difference?

Acting, moving, or capable of acting or moving quickly; swift.

A single step taken when walking or running

Accomplished in relatively little time

Speed in walking, running, or moving

Acquired quickly with little effort and sometimes unscrupulously

Walk at a steady speed, especially without a particular destination and as an expression of anxiety or annoyance

Quick to understand or learn; mentally agile

Move or develop (something) at a particular rate or speed

Indicating a time somewhat ahead of the actual time

With due respect to (someone or their opinion), used to express polite disagreement or contradiction

Allowing rapid movement or action

A step made in walking; a stride.

Designed for or compatible with a short exposure time

A unit of length equal to 30 inches (0.76 meter).

Disposed to dissipation; wild

The modern version of the Roman pace, measuring five English feet. Also called geometric pace.

Flouting conventional moral standards; sexually promiscuous.

Thirty inches at quick marching time or 36 at double time.

Resistant, as to destruction or fading

Five Roman feet or 58.1 English inches, measured from the point at which the heel of one foot is raised to the point at which it is set down again after an intervening step by the other foot.

Firmly fixed or fastened

The rate of speed at which a person, animal, or group walks or runs.

Fixed firmly in place; secure

The rate of speed at which an activity or movement proceeds.

Lasting; permanent

A manner of walking or running

Deep; sound

A gait of a horse in which both feet on one side are lifted and put down together.

In a secure manner; tightly

To walk or stride back and forth across

To a sound degree; deeply

To measure (a space) by counting the number of steps needed to cover a distance.

In a rapid manner; quickly.

To walk (a number of steps) in so measuring a space.

In quick succession

To set or regulate the rate of speed for (a race or a competitor in a race).

Ahead of the correct or expected time

To lead (one's team or teammates) with a good performance

In a dissipated, immoderate way

To advance or develop (something) for a particular purpose or at a particular rate

(Archaic) Close by; near.

To train (a horse) in a particular gait, especially the pace.

To abstain from food.

To walk with long deliberate steps.

To eat very little or abstain from certain foods, especially as a religious discipline.

To go at the pace. Used of a horse or rider.

The act or practice of abstaining from or eating very little food.

With the permission of; with deference to. Used to express polite or ironically polite disagreement

A period of such abstention or self-denial.

Step.

(dated) Firmly or securely fixed in place; stable.

A step taken with the foot.

Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.

The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements.

(of people) Steadfast, with unwavering feeling. (Now mostly in set phrases like fast friend(s).)

Way of stepping.

Moving with great speed, or capable of doing so; swift, rapid.

A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet.

Having a kinetic energy between 1 million and 20 million electron volts; often used to describe the energy state of free neutrons at the moment of their release by a nuclear fission or nuclear fusion reaction (i.e., before the neutrons have been slowed down by anything).

Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait.

Of a place, characterised by business, hustle and bustle, etc.

Speed or velocity in general.

Causing unusual rapidity of play or action.

(cricket) A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing.

Able to transfer data in a short period of time.

(collective) A group of donkeys.

Deep or sound (of sleep); fast asleep (of people).

(obsolete) Passage, route.

(of dyes or colours) Not running or fading when subjected to detrimental conditions such as wetness or intense light; permanent.

(obsolete) One's journey or route.

(obsolete) Tenacious; retentive.

(obsolete) A passage through difficult terrain; a mountain pass or route vulnerable to ambush etc.

(dated) Having an extravagant lifestyle or immoral habits.

(obsolete) An aisle in a church.

Ahead of the correct time or schedule.

Easter.

(of photographic film) More sensitive to light than average.

(cricket) Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls.

In a firm or secure manner, securely; in such a way as not to be moved; safe, sound .

To walk back and forth in a small distance.

(of sleeping) Deeply or soundly .

To set the speed in a race. en

Immediately following in place or time; close, very near .

To measure by walking.

Quickly, with great speed; within a short time .

(formal) With all due respect to.

Ahead of the correct time or schedule.

A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.

A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination, typically just the principal stations

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.

The act or practice of fasting, religious abstinence from food

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.

One of the fasting periods in the liturgical year

A slow gait; a footpace.

(archery) Short for "stand fast", a warning not to pass between the arrow and the target

Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack.

(intransitive) To practice religious abstinence, especially from food.

Any single movement, step, or procedure.

To reduce or limit one's nutrition intake for medical or health reasons, to diet.

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.

To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.

A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web.

To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence.

The rate of progress of any process or activity; as, the students ran at a rapid pace; the plants grew at a remarkable pace.

Abstinence from food; omission to take nourishment.

To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps.

Voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious humiliation.

To proceed; to pass on.

A time of fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time; a period of abstinence from food or certain kinds of food; as, an annual fast.

To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack.

That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; - called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.

To pass away; to die.

Firmly fixed; closely adhering; made firm; not loose, unstable, or easily moved; immovable; as, to make fast the door.

To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round.

Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.

To measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of ground. Often used with out; as, to pace out the distance.

Firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend.

To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in.

Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.

The rate of moving (especially walking or running)

Tenacious; retentive.

The distance covered by a step;

Not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound.

The relative speed of progress or change;

Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast horse.

A step in walking or running

Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a fast liver.

The rate of some repeating event

In such a condition, as to resilience, etc., as to make possible unusual rapidity of play or action; as, a fast racket, or tennis court; a fast track; a fast billiard table, etc.

A unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride

In a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly; firmly; immovably.

Walk with slow or fast paces;

In a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast.

Go at a pace;

Abstaining from food

Measure (distances) by pacing;

Abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons;

Regulate or set the pace of;

Abstain from eating;

Acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly;

(used of timepieces) indicating a time ahead of or later than the correct time;

At a rapid tempo;

(of surfaces) conducive to rapid speeds;

Firmly fastened or secured against opening;

Resistant to destruction or fading;

Unrestrained by convention or morality;

Hurried and brief;

Securely fixed in place;

Unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause;

Quickly or rapidly (often used as a combining form);

Firmly or tightly;