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  • /pɔːz/ UK
  • /poːz/ Australia, British, New Zealand, Southern, Standard
  • /pɔz/
  • /pɑz/ cot caught merger
  • /pɔz/ Scotland
  • [pɔːz] Scotland

Sounds like paws, pores, pours (non-rhotic) · Rhymes with -ɔːz

Where it comes from

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

verb pauses · pausing · paused

  1. intransitive To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.
  2. transitive 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. intransitive To interrupt an activity and wait. When telling the scary story, he paused for effect.
  4. intransitive To hesitate; to hold back; to delay. Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture.
  5. transitive 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
  6. intransitive, obsolete To consider; to reflect. Take time to pause.

noun pauses

  1. 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.
  2. A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
  3. figuratively Hesitation; suspense; doubt. to take pause
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.
  7. Alternative letter-case form of Pause (“a button that pauses or resumes something”).Pause

Similar: break, breather, cessation, demurral, gap, caesura, hiatus, halt, halting, interregnum, interruption, lapse

interjection

  1. slang 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.

Pause²

Where it comes from

From pause.

noun Pauses · pause

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

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