Definition of pause

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Pause (n.) A hold. See 4th Hold, 7..

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Corona :: Corona (n.) A character [/] called the pause or hold.
Sentential :: sentential (a.) Of or pertaining to a sentence, or full period; as, a sentential pause..
Breathing :: Breathing (n.) Stop; pause; delay.
Demur :: Demur (v. i.) To delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings or judgment in view of a doubt or difficulty; to hesitate; to put off the determination or conclusion of an affair.
Pause :: Pause (n.) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
Check :: Check (v. i.) To make a stop; to pause; -- with at.
Breath :: Breath (n.) Time to breathe; respite; pause.
Pause :: Pause (v. t.) To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively.
Repose :: Repose (v.) A rest; a pause.
Pause :: Pause (n.) To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest.
Rest :: Rest (n.) A short pause in reading verse; a c/sura.
Break :: Break (v. t.) An interruption; a pause; as, a break in friendship; a break in the conversation..
Hold :: Hold (n.) A character [thus /] placed over or under a note or rest, and indicating that it is to be prolonged; -- called also pause, and corona..
Scansion :: Scansion (n.) The act of scanning; distinguishing the metrical feet of a verse by emphasis, pauses, or otherwise..
Attacca :: Attacca () Attack at once; -- a direction at the end of a movement to show that the next is to follow immediately, without any pause..
Pause :: Pause (n.) A break or paragraph in writing.
Syllable :: Syllable (n.) An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked by one or more consonants, the whole produced by a single impulse or utterance. One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only
Pause :: Pause (n.) To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect..
Hum :: Hum (interj.) Ahem; hem; an inarticulate sound uttered in a pause of speech implying doubt and deliberation.
Caesura :: Caesura (n.) A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle of a foot. Also, a long syllable on which the caesural accent rests, or which is used as a foot..
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