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Pause   /pɔz/   Listen
noun
Pause  n.  
1.
A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
2.
Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt. "I stand in pause where I shall first begin."
3.
In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts.
4.
In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach the pupil to mind the pauses.
5.
A break or paragraph in writing. "He writes with warmth, which usually neglects method, and those partitions and pauses which men educated in schools observe."
6.
(Mus.) A hold. See 4th Hold, 7.
Synonyms: Stop; cessation; suspension.


verb
Pause  v. t.  To cause to stop or rest; used reflexively. (R.)


Pause  v. i.  (past & past part. paused; pres. part. pausing)  
1.
To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest. "Tarry, pause a day or two." "Pausing a while, thus to herself she mused."
2.
To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses.
3.
To hesitate; to hold back; to delay. (R.) "Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture."
4.
To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect. (R.) "Take time to pause."
To pause upon, to deliberate concerning.
Synonyms: To intermit; stop; stay; wait; delay; tarry; hesitate; demur.





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"Pause" Quotes from Famous Books



... through the silence, and he leaped desperately forward, hoping to intercept her flight. His incautious foot slipped along the steep edge of the shelving bank, and he went down, half stumbling, half sliding, until he came to a sudden pause on the brink of the little stream. The chase was ended, and he sat up, confused for the moment, and half questioning the evidence of his ...
— Bob Hampton of Placer • Randall Parrish
... a pause after this. Jeremy went sadly back to his window-seat. Mary felt that her moment had arrived. Sniffing, as was her habit when she wanted something very badly, she said in a voice that was little more ...
— Jeremy • Hugh Walpole
... news for you, Reuben," Captain Wilson said, in the first pause of conversation. "I saw the chief, and told him I wanted an appointment for a young friend of mine, who had come out in the Paramatta, and who had shown great pluck and presence of mind in an affair at ...
— A Final Reckoning - A Tale of Bush Life in Australia • G. A. Henty
... cried. He looked his comrade up and down; then after a brief pause, he whistled. "As hard up as all that! Why, brother, you've cut me out!" he added, looking at Raskolnikov's rags. "Come sit down, you are ...
— Crime and Punishment • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... to this point, when, taking advantage of a pause she made, the man on her other side (who was, I daresay, strictly within his rights, although I remember at the time considering him a pushing beast) struck in with some remark which she turned to answer, leaving me leisure ...
— The Talking Horse - And Other Tales • F. Anstey


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