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pause

verb
/pɔːz/UK/pɔz/US/pɑz/

Etymology

From Middle French pause, from Latin pausa, from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis), from Ancient Greek παύω (paúō, “stop”), of uncertain origin. Doublet of pausa.

  1. derived from παῦσις
  2. derived from pausa
  3. derived from pause

Definitions

  1. To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.

  2. To stop (an activity) for a while.

    • The general public could therefore have been forgiven for thinking that work on the new station had stopped. But pausing work on an active construction site of this size is not straightforward.

  3. To interrupt an activity and wait.

    • When telling the scary story, he paused for effect.
    • Tarry, pause a day or two.
    • pausing a while thus to herself she mused
  4. ›+ 12 more definitions

    1. To hesitate

      To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.

      • Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture.

    2. To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same…

      To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.

      • to pause a song, a video, or a computer game
      • Press Start at any time to pause the game.

    3. To consider

      To consider; to reflect.

      • Take time to pause.

    4. A temporary stop or rest

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

      • If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough.

    5. A short time for relaxing and doing something else.

    6. Hesitation

      Hesitation; suspense; doubt.

      • to take pause
      • to give pause
      • And like a man to double buſsines bound, / I ſtand in pauſe where I ſhall firſt beginne, […]

    7. In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in…

      In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark.

      • Teach the pupil to mind the pauses.

    8. A break or paragraph in writing.

      • He [Paul] is full of the Matter he treats and writes with Warmth, which uſually neglects Method, and thoſe Partitions and Pauſes which Men educated in the Schools of Rhetoricians uſually obſerve.

    9. A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.

    10. Alternative letter-case form of Pause (“a button that pauses or resumes something”).

    11. Used immediately after a statement to indicate that there was no innuendo or homosexual…

      Used immediately after a statement to indicate that there was no innuendo or homosexual meaning intended, especially when such a meaning is a reasonable interpretation.

    12. A button whose functions are pausing and resuming something, such as a DVD player, a…

      A button whose functions are pausing and resuming something, such as a DVD player, a video game or a computer.

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Derived

nonpausing, pausable, pausingly, prepause, unpause, aeropause, autopause, coffee pause, Engels' pause, filled pause, Gigapause, give pause, hit pause, hit the pause button, homopause, interpause, intrapause, ionopause, Macready pause, micropause, millennial pause, nonpause, normal pause, Omegapause, pause ad, pause buffer, pause buffering, pauseful, pauseless, pregnant pause, press pause, somatopause, spoken pause

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at pause. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at pause. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at pause

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA