pause

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See also: Pause, pausé, and -pause

English

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Etymology

From Middle French pause, from Latin pausa, from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis). Compare the doublet pausa.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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  1. (intransitive) To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.
  2. (intransitive) To interrupt an activity and wait.
    When telling the scary story, he paused for effect.
    • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
      Tarry, pause a day or two.
    • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      pausing while thus to herself she mused
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 15, in The China Governess‎[1]:
      She paused and took a defiant breath. ‘If you don't believe me, I can't help it. But I'm not a liar.’ ¶ ‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’
  3. (intransitive) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
    • (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture.
  4. (transitive) To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.
    to pause a song, a video, or a computer game
  5. (intransitive, obsolete) To consider; to reflect.
    • (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Take time to pause.

Translations

Noun

pause (plural pauses)

  1. A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
    • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 23, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
      If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.
  2. A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
  3. Hesitation; suspense; doubt.
    • (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      I stand in pause where I shall first begin.
  4. In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark.
    Teach the pupil to mind the pauses.
  5. A break or paragraph in writing.
    • (Can we date this quote by John Locke and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      He writes with warmth, which usually neglects method, and those partitions and pauses which men educated in schools observe.
  6. (music) A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.
  7. Alternative spelling of Pause (“a button that pauses or resumes something”)
  8. (as direct object) take pause: hesitate; give pause: cause to hesitate

Derived terms

Translations

Danish

Etymology

From Latin pausa, from Ancient Greek παύω (paúō, “stop”).

Noun

pause c (singular definite pausen, plural indefinite pauser)

  1. pause

Declension

Declension of pause
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative pause pausen pauser pauserne
genitive pauses pausens pausers pausernes

Derived terms

Further reading

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pausa.

Pronunciation

Noun

pause f (plural pauses)

  1. pause, break
  2. (music) rest

Further reading

Italian

Noun

pause f

  1. plural of pausa

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pausa.

Noun

pause f (plural pauses)

  1. pause (brief cessation)

Descendants

  • → English: pause
  • French: pause

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin pausa, from Ancient Greek παύω (paúō, “stop”).

Noun

pause m (definite singular pausen, indefinite plural pauser, definite plural pausene)

  1. a pause, a break (short time for relaxing)

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin pausa, from Ancient Greek παύω (paúō, “stop”).

Noun

pause m (definite singular pausen, indefinite plural pausar, definite plural pausane)

  1. a pause or break (short time for relaxing)

Derived terms

References

Portuguese

Verb

pause

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Spanish

Verb

pause

  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.
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