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.
- (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
- The student cannot pause the test.
- The military talks started to fill the pause.
- It tends to pause a bit the flow of the prose.
- After a silent pause, a loud clatter is heard.
- The proceeding is going to be paused for a while.
- This number is the requested duration of the pause.
- The four sections of the symphony proceed without pause.
- The length of the pause shortens as light becomes poorer.
- In the second day, there was a momentary pause in the combat.
- He paused then for what seemed an incalculable period of time.
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