File
File verb - To move along with a steady regular step especially in a group.
Usage example: to the strains of that familiar music, this year's graduating class filed into the auditorium
Pace
Pace verb - To move along with a steady regular step especially in a group.
Usage example: six jugglers paced neatly alongside one another in the parade
How words are described
| special | special file | special pace |
| exact | exact file | exact pace |
| right | right file | right pace |
| current | current file | current pace |
| Other adjectives: original, quick, different. | ||
Common collocations
| story | file story | pace story |
Both words in one sentence
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At the final Talladega race, when the pace car pulls off on the last restart, Ricky Bobby's and Jean Girard's cars are side-by-side, a la a double-file restart.
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The attacking army would be forced to go single file at a snail's pace to avoid tripping, while the dwarves could pelt them with arrows from a safe position.
Source: No OSHA Compliance - Also, at the end when you are following Liberty Prime and the other Brotherhood of Steel troops through DC, if you are with them they will run off ahead at their own pace, with you just appearing to be little more than another rank and file trooper.
Source: Take Your Time
Cite this Source
Pace and File. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/file/pace
File & Pace. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/file/pace>.
Pace or File. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/file/pace.
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