See Also: Graft-versus-host disease(health)
graft-versus-host disease(medicine)
disease, graft-versus-host(medicine)
Graft Versus Host Disease(health)
host versus graft reaction(medicine)
Graft versus host reaction (GVH)(health)
graft-versus-host response(medicine)
graft-versus-host reaction(medicine)
cutaneous graft versus host reaction(medicine)
host vs graft reaction(medicine)

pace 1, noun (oh) and Graft Versus Host Disease (health)


pace 1, noun (oh)



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1 ?speed of events/changes?
2 ?walk/run?
3 ?step?
4 keep pace (with something/somebody)
5 go through your paces
6 put somebody/something through their paces
7 set the pace
8 force the pace
9 be able to stand the pace
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[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: pas 'step', from Latin passus]
?SPEED OF EVENTS/CHANGES?
[singular] the speed at which something happens or is done
::The pace of change in our lives is becoming faster and faster.
::Here in Bermuda, the pace of life is very slow.
::Public spending continues to rise at a steady pace .
::Children learn best by studying at their own pace .
::The company had been growing at breakneck pace until last year.
::Support for European unity began to gather pace .
::If they can keep up the pace , they should have finished by early next week.
::Things are changing, but at a snail's pace .
?WALK/RUN?
[singular] the speed at which someone walks, runs, or moves
pace of
::You need to step up the pace of your exercises.
at a slow/leisurely/brisk etc pace
::Lucy set off at a leisurely pace back to the hotel.
::He quickened his pace , longing to be Home.
::Traffic slowed to a walking pace .
?STEP?
[C] a single step when you are running or walking, or the distance you move in one step
pace backwards/towards/forwards etc
::He took a pace towards the door.
::Rebecca walked a few paces behind her mum.
keep pace (with sth/sb)
to change or increase as fast as something else, or to move as fast as someone else
::Salaries have not always kept pace with inflation.
::The supply of materials cannot keep pace with demand.
::Slow down! I can't keep pace with you.
go through your paces
also show your paces
to show how well you can do something
put sb/sth through their paces
to make a person, vehicle, animal etc show how well they can do something
::The test driver puts all the cars through their paces.
set the pace
a) if a company sets the pace, it does something before its competitors or to a better standard
set the pace in
::Japanese firms have been setting the pace in electronic engineering.
b) also set a brisk/cracking etc pace BrE
to go faster than the Other competitors in a race, who then try to achieve the same speed
::The Italians set the pace for the first eight laps.
force the pace
to make something happen or develop more quickly than it would do normally
force the pace on
::measures designed to force the pace on Alternative Energy policies
be able to stand the pace
to be able to deal with situations where you are very busy and have to think and act very quickly
::If you can stand the pace, working in advertising pays well.
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COLLOCATES for sense 1
pace of change/reform/growth
pace of life
at your own pace (=at the pace that suits you)
at a rapid/slow/steady etc pace
at breakneck pace (=extremely fast)
gather pace (=happen more quickly)
keep up the pace (=continue to do something or happen as quickly as before)
at a snail's pace (=very slowly)
HINT sense 1
Do not say 'in your own pace' or 'on your own pace'. Say at your own pace.

Graft Versus Host Disease (health)


A common complication of allogeneic blood and marrow transplantation where there is a reaction of the donated hematopoietic progenitor cells against the recipient's own tissue.