pause

IPA: pˈɔz

noun

  • A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
  • A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
  • Hesitation; suspense; doubt.
  • In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark.
  • A break or paragraph in writing.
  • (music) A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.
  • (as direct object) take pause: hesitate; give pause: cause to hesitate
  • A button whose functions are pausing and resuming something, such as a DVD player, a video game or a computer.
  • Alternative spelling of Pause (“a button that pauses or resumes something”) [A button whose functions are pausing and resuming something, such as a DVD player, a video game or a computer.]

verb

  • (intransitive) To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.
  • (transitive) To stop an activity for a while.
  • (intransitive) To interrupt an activity and wait.
  • (intransitive) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
  • (transitive) To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.
  • (intransitive, obsolete) To consider; to reflect.
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Examples of "pause" in Sentences

  • Clearly, this term pause, much debated, does not apply to the air war.
  • II. i.32 (159,9) [tho 'she pause] To _pause_ is to rest, to be in quiet.
  • There was no rest, never a moment's pause from the cheerless, heart-breaking battle.
  • A semicolon pause is longer than a comma pause and shorter than a period/full stop pause.
  • "I think we're probably on a short term pause to really get the fear and the psychology into the right perspective."
  • And, of course, it was just hours after President Bush said that he considered the term pause to be misleading because there was going to be no pause in operations.
  • A good poet has to have an ear for punctuation, determining what sort of a pause is needed to maintain the meter, and what kind is necessary to make a convoluted sentence clear.
  • Maybe there are some true consultant masterminds out there for whom every pause is a dogwhistle to pundits, for whom every turn of phrase is frought with Da Vinci Code-like hidden meaning -- I haven't covered them.
  • For a full second we stood in pause — I, with legs spread, and arched and tense, body thrown forward, right arm horizontal and straight out; Fortini, his blade beyond me so far that hilt and hand just rested lightly against my left breast, his body rigid, his eyes open and shining.
  • Goldman Sachs economist Alberto Ramos , noting that the bank's decision to hike rates wasn't unanimous, says the a "near term pause in the rate hike cycle looks increasingly in the cards," although he said the bank still may push the rate a bit higher during the second half of 2011.

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