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pause - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritageยฎ Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To cease or suspend an action temporarily.
- intransitive verb To hesitate.
- intransitive verb To linger; tarry.
- intransitive verb To cease or suspend the action of temporarily; stop for an interim.
- noun A break, stop, or rest, often for a calculated purpose or effect.
- noun A delay or suspended reaction, as from uncertainty; a hesitation.
- noun Delay or hesitation.
- noun Reason for hesitation.
- noun Music A sign, such as a fermata, indicating that a note or rest is to be held.
- noun A break or rest in a line of poetry; a caesura.
- noun A control mechanism on an audio or video player that halts the playing of a recording and permits playing to be easily resumed from the same point.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A temporary stop or rest; a cessation or intermission of action or motion, as of speaking, singing, or playing.
- noun A cessation proceeding from doubt or uncertainty; hesitation; suspense.
- noun A break or rest in writing or speaking.
- noun In musical notation: A rest, or sign for silence. See rest.
- noun A fermata or hold, or indicating that a note is to be prolonged at the pleasure of the performer.
- noun Stopping-place; conclusion; ultimate point.
- noun In prosody, an interval in a succession of metrical times, corresponding to a time or times in the rhythm, but not represented by any syllable or syllables in the text.
- noun Synonyms Intermission, Rest, etc. See
stop . - To make a temporary stop or intermission; cease to speak or act for a time.
- To wait; tarry; forbear for a time.
- To stop for consideration or reflection; deliberate: sometimes with upon before the object of consideration or deliberation.
- To hesitate; hold back; be shy or reluctant.
- Reflexively, to repose one's self; hence, to stop; cease from action.
- To dwell; linger: with upon.
- Synonyms and To stay, delay, tarry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
- noun Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.
- noun In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts.
- noun In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point.
- noun A break or paragraph in writing.
- noun (Mus.) A hold. See 4th
Hold , 7. - intransitive verb To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest.
- intransitive verb To be intermitted; to cease.
- intransitive verb To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
- intransitive verb rare To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect.
- intransitive verb to deliberate concerning.
- transitive verb rare To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, intransitive To interrupt current work and do something else for a moment.
- noun A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
- noun Alternative spelling of
Pause ย (โa button that pauses or resumes somethingโ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- noun temporary inactivity
- verb cease an action temporarily
- verb interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing
Etymologies
from The American Heritageยฎ Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From Middle English, pause, from Old French, from Latin pausa, from Greek pausis, from pauein, to stop.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Middle French pause, from Latin pausa, from Ancient Greek ฯฮฑแฟฆฯฮนฯ
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Examples
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II. i.32 (159,9) [tho 'she pause] To _pause_ is to rest, to be in quiet.
Notes to Shakespeare โ Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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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.
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"I think we're probably on a short term pause to really get the fear and the psychology into the right perspective."
For Some, Rude End to IPO Dreams Shayndi Raice 2011
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Clearly, this term pause, much debated, does not apply to the air war.
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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.
Colombia Lifts Key Bank Rate Dan Molinski 2011
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For a full second we stood in pause โ 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.
Chapter 11 2010
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There was no rest, never a moment's pause from the cheerless, heart-breaking battle.
Trust 2010
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A semicolon pause is longer than a comma pause and shorter than a period/full stop pause.
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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.
The Paranoid Style of American Punditry - Swampland - TIME.com 2008
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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.
Related Words
synonyms (240)
Words with the same meaning
- abeyance
- accent
- accent mark
- afterthought
- back down
- balance
- bar
- bashfulness
- bind
- blench
- block
- blockage
- boggle
- boggling
- boundary
- breach
- break
- breath
- breathe
- breather
- breathing place
- breathing space
- breathing spell
- breathing time
- breve rest
- bureaucratic delay
- caesura
- call a break
- call a recess
- call time
- cancel
- cease
- cease-fire
- cessation
- character
- cigarette break
- clause boundary
- clause terminal
- close juncture
- cocktail hour
- coffee break
- colon
- comma
- compunction
- custos
- day off
- debate
- declare a recess
- delay
- delayage
- delayed reaction
- deliberate
- demur
- demurral
- detention
- diffidence
- direct
- discontinuance
- discontinuation
- discontinue
- discontinuity
- dot
- double take
- doubt
- downtime
- dragging
- drop
- eighth rest
- enforced respite
- expression mark
- falling terminal
- falter
- faltering
- fear
- fermata
- fight shy of
- fissure
- flinch
- gap
- half rest
- half time
- half-time intermission
- halt
- hang back
- hang off
- hang-up
- happy hour
- have qualms
- hem and haw
- hesitance
- hesitancy
- hesitate
- hesitation
- hiatus
- hindrance
- hold
- hold off
- hold up
- hold-up
- holdup
- holiday
- hover
- hum and haw
- interim
- interlude
- intermezzo
- intermission
- intermit
- intermittence
- interregnum
- interrupt
- interruption
- interval
- intervene
- jam
- jib
- juncture
- key signature
- knock off
- lacuna
- lag
- lagging
- lapse
- lay off
- layoff
- lead
- let up
- letup
- ligature
- logjam
- lull
- make bones about
- mark
- mark time
- measure
- metronomic mark
- minim
- modesty
- moratorium
- notation
- objection
- obstruction
- off-time
- open juncture
- paperasserie
- period
- plateau
- point
- point of repose
- ponder
- presa
- protest
- pull back
- quail
- qualm
- qualm of conscience
- qualmishness
- quarter rest
- quiet spell
- recess
- recoil
- red tape
- red-tapeism
- red-tapery
- reflect
- relief
- remission
- reprieve
- respite
- rest
- resting point
- retardance
- retardation
- retreat
- rising terminal
- sandhi
- scruple
- scrupulosity
- scrupulousness
- segno
- semicolon
- shilly-shally
- shrink
- shrinking
- shy
- shy at
- shyness
- sign
- signature
- sixteenth rest
- slow-up
- slowdown
- slowness
- slur
- spell
- stand-down
- stay
- stay of execution
- stick at
- stickle
- stickling
- stop
- stop for breath
- stop to consider
- stoppage
- straddle the fence
- strain
- strain at
- surcease
- suspence
- suspend
- suspension
- swell
- symbol
- take a break
- take a recess
- take a rest
- take five
- take ten
- take time out
- tarry
- tea break
- tempo mark
- terminal
- think twice about
- tie
- tie-up
- time lag
- time off
- time out
- time signature
- truce
- vacation
- vinculum
- wait
- waver
- wince
- withdraw
- word boundary
- yield
same context (42)
Words that are found in similar contexts
- Marks
- accent
- bow
- breath
- cause
- cut
- decision
- delay
- deliberation
- fall
- gesture
- glance
- halt
- hesitation
- instance
- interruption
- interval
- lady
- lull
- next
- nod
- noise
- occasion
- olive-branch
- omitted
- pipe
- reflection
- scholar
- sensation
- shake
- sigh
- silence
- success
- syllable
- syllables
- tone
- town
- u
- week
- whisper
- wind-vane
- writes
kewpid commented on the word pause
The possibility of a Huckabee presidency would give many independent voters (and this newspaper) pause. ยป
February 11, 2008