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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.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Pause" Quotes from Famous Books



... There was a pause in the deliberations. Meantime, Count Schwartzburg, reluctantly accepting the conviction that the religious question was an insurmountable obstacle to a peace, left the provinces for Germany. The last propositions ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... price? with stings that never cease Thou goad'st him on; and when, too keen the smart, He fain would pause awhile—and signs for peace, Food thou wilt have, or tear ...
— Zophiel - A Poem • Maria Gowen Brooks
... the lady of the villa haughtily refused his princely offer. He won the life-long devotion of his courier by promptly increasing it to one hundred thousand francs. When this too met with rejection, there was a pause and a serious consultation between ...
— Brewster's Millions • George Barr McCutcheon
... pause. Mme. Mauperin gave M. Mauperin time enough to imagine that she had finished, and then changing her ...
— Rene Mauperin • Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt
... as he was bid, and was tying the cord firmly, when he was stopped by the voice of the Jewish doctor beseeching him to pause, for he had something very important to say. When he had fought his way through the crowd and reached the ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments • Andrew Lang.


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