Footprint vs Pace - What's the Difference?
Definition as Noun
- a trace suggesting that something was once present or felt or otherwise important
- the area taken up by some object
- a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
Definition as Noun
- the distance covered by a step
- the rate of moving (especially walking or running)
- the relative speed of progress or change
- a step in walking or running
- the rate of some repeating event
- a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
Definition as Verb
- walk with slow or fast paces
- go at a pace
- regulate or set the pace of
- measure (distances) by pacing
Examples
- "the footprints of an earlier civilization"
- "the computer had a desktop footprint of 10 by 16 inches"
- "the police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window"
- "he stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig"
- "he lived at a fast pace"; "he works at a great rate"; "the pace of events accelerated"
- "He paced up and down the hall"