Definition of pause

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Pause (n.) To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest.

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Dash :: Dash (n.) A mark or line [--], in writing or printing, denoting a sudden break, stop, or transition in a sentence, or an abrupt change in its construction, a long or significant pause, or an unexpected or epigrammatic turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead of marks or parenthesis..
Rest :: Rest (n.) A short pause in reading verse; a c/sura.
Pause :: Pause (v. t.) To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively.
Pause :: Pause (n.) A hold. See 4th Hold, 7..
Suspense :: Suspense (a.) Cessation for a time; stop; pause.
Pausingly :: Pausingly (adv.) With pauses; haltingly.
Forbear :: Forbear (v. i.) To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.
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..
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
Paused :: Paused (imp. & p. p.) of Paus.
Point :: Point (n.) A mark of punctuation; a character used to mark the divisions of a composition, or the pauses to be observed in reading, or to point off groups of figures, etc.; a stop, as a comma, a semicolon, and esp. a period; hence, figuratively, an end, or conclusion..
Breathing :: Breathing (n.) Stop; pause; delay.
Hum :: Hum (interj.) Ahem; hem; an inarticulate sound uttered in a pause of speech implying doubt and deliberation.
Breath :: Breath (n.) Time to breathe; respite; pause.
Cadence :: Cadence (n.) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy..
Stand :: Stand (n.) To cease from progress; not to proceed; to stop; to pause; to halt; to remain stationary.
Demur :: Demur (v. i.) Stop; pause; hesitation as to proceeding; suspense of decision or action; scruple.
Ceaseless :: Ceaseless (a.) Without pause or end; incessant.
Pause :: Pause (n.) A break or paragraph in writing.
Pauser :: Pauser (n.) One who pauses.
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