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Pause

Pause (pause)
n.(?)
Pause
[F., fr. L. 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. Shak.

  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. Locke.

  6. A hold. See 4th Hold, 7.

    Syn. -- Stop; cessation; suspension.

Pause

Pause (pause)
v. i.
Pause
  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." Shak.

    Pausing while, thus to herself she mused. Milton.

  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. Shak.

  4. To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect.
    [R.] "Take time to pause." Shak.

    To pause upon, to deliberate concerning. Shak.

    Syn. -- To intermit; stop; stay; wait; delay; tarry; hesitate; demur.

Pause

Pause (pause)
v. t.
Pause
  1. To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively.
    [R.] Shak.












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