pause
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From Middle French pause, from Latin pausa; compare with Ancient Greek παῦσις
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- Rhymes: -ɔːz
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to pause (third-person singular simple present pauses, present participle pausing, simple past and past participle paused)
- To interrupt current work and do something else for a moment.
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to interrupt something
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pause (plural pauses)
- A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
- A button found on players of electronic and digital media (such as a VCR or DVD player) that suspends play.
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short time for relaxing
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[edit] French
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pause f. (plural pauses)
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pause f.
- Plural form of pausa.
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pause (infinitive: pausar)
- first-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of pausar.
- formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of pausar.
- third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of pausar.
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