name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   One who paces.
2. 2
   A mechanical pencil. Australia
3. 3
   A British lightweight railbus diesel multiple unit of class 140, 141, 142, 143 or 144.
4. 4
   a horse trained to a special gait in which both feet on one side leave the ground together wordnet
5. 5
   In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on one side take a step together alternating with the legs on the other side; as opposed to a trotter.

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6. 6
   a horse used to set the pace in racing wordnet
7. 7
   A pacemaker (one who sets the pace in a race).
8. 8
   A timer in an electric toothbrush that indicates how long the user should spend brushing in each part of the mouth.

Proper Noun

1. 1
   Acronym of Public Access to Court Electronic Records, an electronic public access service for United States federal-court documents. US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of

Synonyms

All synonyms

cobmechanical pencilpacemakerpacesetterpadstepper

Etymology

Etymology 1

From pace + -er.

Etymology 2

From the brand name Pacer.

Related phrases

Narragansett pacermedium pacerdiesel multiple unitmechanical pencil

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.