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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