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.

2. pauseverb

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

3. Pausenoun

   A button whose functions are pausing and resuming something.

4. Etymology: From pause.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Pausenoun

   Etymology: pause, Fr. pausa, low Latin; ϖάυω.

   1. A stop; a place or time of intermission.

   Neither could we ever come to any pause, whereon to rest our assurance this way. Richard Hooker, b. ii. s. 4.

   Comes a fellow crying out for help,
   And Cassio following with determin’d sword,
   To execute upon him; this gentleman
   Steps in to Cassio, and intreats his pause. William Shakespeare.

   Some pause and respite only I require,
   Till with my tears I shall have quench’d my fire. John Denham.

   The punishment must always be rigorously exacted, and the blows by pauses laid on till they reach the mind, and you perceive the signs of a true sorrow. John Locke.

   Whilst those exalted to primeval light,
   Only perceive some little pause of joys
   In those great moments, when their god employs
   Their ministry. Matthew Prior.

   What pause from woe, what hopes of comfort bring
   The names of wise or great. Matthew Prior.

   Our discourse is not kept up in conversation, but falls into more pauses and intervals than in our neighbouring countries. Joseph Addison, Spectator, №. 133.

   2. Suspense; doubt.

   Like a man to double business bound,
   I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
   And both neglect. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

   3. Break; paragraph; apparent separation of the parts of a discourse.

   He writes with warmth, which usually neglects method, and those partitions and pauses which men, educated in the schools, observe. John Locke.

   4. Place of suspending the voice marked in writing.5. A stop or intermission in musick.

2. To PAUSEverb

   1. To wait; to stop; not to proceed; to forbear for a time.

   Tarry; pause a day or two,
   Before you hazard: for in chusing wrong
   I lose your company; therefore forbear a while. William Shakespeare.

   Give me leave to read philosophy.
   And, while I pause, serve in your harmony: William Shakespeare.

   Pausing a while, thus to herself she mus’d. John Milton.

   2. To deliberate.

   Bear Worcester to death, and Vernon too.
   Other offenders we will pause upon. William Shakespeare, Henry IV.

   Solyman pausing a little upon the matter, the heat of his fury being over, suffered himself to be intreated. Richard Knolles.

   3. To be intermitted.

   What awe did the slow solemn knell inspire,
   The pealing organ, and the pausing choir,
   And the last words, that dust to dust convey’d! Thomas Tickell.

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

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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. Chuck Carlson:

   The Fed pivoted so abruptly, which gives one pause about what they're saying about the economy, flat to falling interest rates are not good news for bank interest margins. It's not surprising that analysts are taking down earnings estimates.

2. Anthony Fauci:

   If they call a pause for such a rare event, you can be sure that they take safety very, very seriously, if any degree of hesitancy is related to continued concern about safety, you just need to look at the system, which is highly sensitive in using surveillance to look for adverse events.

3. Molly Snyder:

   We really took a pause and looked at what made sense in our stores, where does it make sense online and where is it unnecessary, one of the top ways people shopped online is by searching by gender. We wanted to make sure our site and stores are easy to shop, and follow a logical path for people.

4. Niels Christensen:

   We had a pretty big move up in the dollar, so it's natural that there is a pause especially with the U.S. calendar a bit empty and little in store to push Treasury yields higher today.

5. Sarah Schilling:

   Throughout the year, we periodically pause beer production at our Cartersville, Ga., brewery to produce emergency canned drinking water so we are ready to help out communities across the country in times of crisis, putting our production and logistics strengths to work by providing safe, clean drinking water is the best way we can help in these situations.

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