Pause
Pause (paz) , noun
[French, from Latin pausa. See Pose.]
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.
(Music) A hold. See 4th Hold, 7.
Pause (pazd) , intransitive verb
[Compare French pauser, Latin pausare. See Pause, n., Pose.]
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. [Rare]
Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture.
4.
To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect. [Rare]
Take time to pause.
Collocations (1)
To pause upon , to deliberate concerning. — Shakespeare
Pause , transitive verb
To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively. [Rare] — Shakespeare