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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



... when we go farther into the analysis of the rhythm of verse. We have just seen that the line is one unit of the rhythm (this is true even when there are run-over lines, because we make a slight pause after the ends of such lines too); but within the line itself there are sub-units. These sub-units are units of thought. Every piece of written or spoken language is a continuous flow of thought. But the movement is not perfectly fluid; for it is broken up into elementary ...
— The Principles Of Aesthetics • Dewitt H. Parker
... There was a pause. Arthur stood upright, with lips compressed, hands clasped together, while the sheyk and his companions seemed struck by his courage and high spirit. Then one of them—a small, ugly fellow, who had some pretensions to be considered the sheyk's next heir—cried, 'Out ...
— A Modern Telemachus • Charlotte M. Yonge
... exploded in the dining-room, the effect could hardly have been more stupefying than these words. There was an awful pause. The women, holding the unlit cigarettes delicately between their fingers, looked enquiringly at their hostess. The men stared; ...
— God's Good Man • Marie Corelli
... was present during the delivery of the following speech, informs the editor that "no note of any kind was referred to by Mr. Dickens—except the Quotation from Sydney Smith. The address, evidently carefully prepared, was delivered without a single pause, in Mr. Dickens's best manner, and was ...
— Speeches: Literary and Social • Charles Dickens
... pause very long to survey the scene. Their one idea was to find some sort of shelter from the storm; and with this in view they hurried on parallel to the watercourse until they came to the point of rocks commonly known as the Bend. Here the side of the river ...
— The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck - Stirring Adventures in the Oil Fields • Edward Stratemeyer


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