pause

See also Pause

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Middle French pause, from Latin pausa, from Ancient Greek παῦσις

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: pôz, IPA: /pɔːz/, SAMPA: /pO:z/

Rhymes: -ɔːz

• (US) enPR: pôz, IPA: /pɔz/, SAMPA: /pOz/
• (cot–caught merger) enPR: päz, IPA: /pɑz/, SAMPA: /pAz/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Homophone: paws; pores, pours (in non-rhotic accents)

Verb

pause (third-person singular simple present pauses, present participle pausing, simple past and past participle paused)

1. (ambitransitive) To interrupt current work and do something else for a moment.

   When telling the scary story, he paused for effect.

   He paused the video until every was quiet, then pressed Play.

Translations

to interrupt something

Arabic: توقف (ar) (tawaqqafa) Chinese: Mandarin: 停頓 (cmn), 停顿 (cmn) (tíngdùn), 暫停 (cmn), 暂停 (cmn) (zàntíng) Dutch: pauzeren (nl) Finnish: pysähtyä, tauota, pitää tauko French: faire une pause, pauser

German: pausieren (de), innehalten (de) Japanese: 中断する (ja) (chūdan-suru), 途切れる (ja) (togireru) Latvian: pārtraukt (lv) Russian: делать паузу (ru) (délat' páuzu) Serbian: stanka (sr) Spanish: pausar (es), interrumpir (es), suspender (es)

Noun

pause (plural pauses)

1. A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
2. Alternative spelling of Pause (“a button that pauses or resumes something”).

Translations

short time for relaxing

Arabic: توقف (tawáqquf) m., وقف (ar) (waqf) m. Armenian: դադար (hy) (dadar) Chinese: Mandarin: 停頓 (cmn), 停顿 (cmn) (tíngdùn), 暫停 (cmn), 暂停 (cmn) (zàntíng) Czech: přestávka (cs) f., pauza (cs) f. Dutch: pauze (nl) c. Esperanto: paŭzo (eo) Finnish: pysähdys (fi), tauko (fi), keskeytys (fi), väliaika (fi), lepoaika (fi), katko (fi) French: pause (fr) f. German: Pause (de) f. Greek: Ancient: παῦσις f. Modern: παύση f.

Hebrew: אתנח (he) (etnah) Hungarian: szünet (hu) Italian: pausa (it) f. Japanese: 休止 (きゅうし, kyūshi) Korean: 멈춤 (meomchum) Latvian: pārtraukums (lv) m. Portuguese: pausa (pt) f. Romanian: pauză (ro) Russian: пауза (ru) (páuza) f. Serbian: stanka (sr) f., odmor (sr) m. Slovene: pavza f., odmor m. Spanish: pausa (es) f. Swedish: paus (sv) c.

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French

Etymology

From Latin pausa.

Pronunciation

• audio

  (file)

• Homophone: pose

Noun

pause f. (plural pauses)

1. pause, break

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Italian

Noun

pause f.

1. Plural form of pausa.

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Norwegian

Etymology

From Latin, from Ancient Greek pauein (“stop”).

Noun

pause m.

1. pause (short time for relaxing)

Inflection

    Inflection of pause

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	pause	pausen	pauser	pausene
Nynorsk m	pause	pausen	pausar	pausane

References

• “pause” in The Bokmål Dictionary / The Nynorsk Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.

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Spanish

Verb

pause (infinitive pausar)

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of pausar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of pausar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of pausar.