Definitions for pause
pɔzpause

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. pause, intermission, break, interruption, suspensionnoun

   a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something

2. pauseverb

   temporary inactivity

3. hesitate, pauseverb

   interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing

   "The speaker paused"

4. pause, intermit, breakverb

   cease an action temporarily

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

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. pausenoun

   A short time for relaxing and doing something else.

   Etymology: From pause.

2. pauseverb

   To interrupt current work and do something else for a moment.

   Etymology: From pause.

3. Pausenoun

   A button whose functions are pausing and resuming something.

   Etymology: From pause.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Pausenoun

   a temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation

2. Pausenoun

   temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt

3. Pausenoun

   in speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts

4. Pausenoun

   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. Pausenoun

   a break or paragraph in writing

6. Pausenoun

   a hold. See 4th Hold, 7

7. Pausenoun

   to make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest

8. Pausenoun

   to be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses

9. Pausenoun

   to hesitate; to hold back; to delay

10. Pausenoun

    to stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect

11. Pauseverb

    to cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively

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1. Pause

   Pause is the second album by Four Tet. It was released on 28 May 2001 in the United Kingdom, and on 9 October 2001 in the United States. Pause was Four Tet's first release on Domino Records; his debut album, Dialogue, had been distributed by Output Recordings. A recording of an office setting, most prominently featuring the sounds of typing on a computer keyboard, forms a recurring motif in the album; it both opens and closes the album, and is also present in "Harmony One". Three tracks from Pause were later released in remixed form on Four Tet's Paws EP. The acoustic guitar track "Everything Is Alright" is used as the theme music for the National Public Radio programme On Point. The opening track "Glue of the World" is used in the background of the Six Feet Under episode "Someone Else's Eyes". This same track is used in the House M.D. episode 'Last Resort'. It is played over the top of various scenes from the hospital as the hostages are being released and/or detained. The fourth track entitled "Parks" contains a sample of "After the Snow, The Fragrance" and "Sanzen" both from the album Music for Zen Meditation by jazz clarinetist Tony Scott.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Pause

   pawz, n. a ceasing: a temporary stop: cessation caused by doubt: suspense: a mark for suspending the voice: (mus.) a mark showing continuance of a note or rest.—v.i. to make a pause.—adjs. Paus′al; Pause′less.—adv. Pause′lessly.—n. Paus′er, one who pauses or deliberates.—adv. Paus′ingly, with pauses: by breaks: deliberately. [Fr.,—L. pausa—Gr. pausis, from pauein, to cause to cease.]

Matched Categories

1. • Delay
   • Interrupt

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'pause' in Nouns Frequency: #2013

2. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'pause' in Verbs Frequency: #541

How to pronounce pause?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of pause in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of pause in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of pause in a Sentence

1. Lord Byron:

   For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breathe, And love itself have rest

2. Nursultan Nazarbayev:

   Let us pause, take a deep breath, as they say in yoga, and forget about the dollar, i went to a bazaar before this (congress) and checked the prices for basic foodstuffs.

3. House Speaker Paul Ryan:

   This is a moment where it is better to be safe than to be sorry, so we think the prudent, the responsible thing is to take a pause in this particular aspect of this refugee program in order to verify that terrorists are not trying to infiltrate the refugee population.

4. Todd Maiden:

   It has given people in the market some pause, if the court was to suddenly invalidate the auctions, where do you go from there? Does that mean we go back in time and refund the money? And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

5. Martin Luther King, Jr.:

   If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

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