pause - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'pause' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Pause

[ n.]

- A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
- Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.
- In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts.
- 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.
- A break or paragraph in writing.
- A hold. See 4th Hold, 7.
- To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest.
- To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses.
- To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
- To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect.

2 . Pause

[ v. t.]

- To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively.

Meaning of 'pause' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . pause

[ v]

Meaning (1):
- cease an action temporarily

Example in sentence:

let's break for lunch;
We pause for station identification

Meaning (2):
- interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing

Example in sentence:

The speaker paused

Nearby Words:

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