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Lacing vs Pacing - What's the difference?

lacing | pacing |

As verbs the difference between lacing and pacing

is that lacing is present participle of lang=en while pacing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between lacing and pacing

is that lacing is that with which something is laced while pacing is the act of moving in paces, or their arrangement or timing.

lacing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • That with which something is laced.
    • A light lacing of rum goes into the cake batter.
  • The tied laces that form a netlike pattern.
  • A beating as punishment; a hiding.
  • * 1964 , Tom Pyle, ?Beth Day Romulo, Pocantico: Fifty Years on the Rockefeller Domain (page 168)
    • The Nelson family chauffeur, Ed, told me that Steven was missing. Ed was angry that the kid had run off, and he said when he got his hands on him he was going to give him a good lacing

    See also

    * shoelace

    pacing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of moving in paces, or their arrangement or timing.
  • * Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
    • We have repeatedly referred to the usefulness of steps, lines, ticks, clocks, routines, pacings , etc. - scales, measures, series, patterns, disposed in a fixed and regular and conventional space-time.

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