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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pause
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a brief pause
▪ There was a brief pause before he replied.
long silence/pause/delay etc
▪ There was a long silence before anybody spoke.
pause a moment (=stop speaking or doing something for a short time)
▪ Lisa paused a moment, then said 'yes'.
pause for breath
▪ She talked solidly for five minutes, hardly pausing for breath.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
briefly
▪ Her erratic gaze paused briefly on the broken nail she was picking with her other hand.
▪ She paused briefly to tidy her hair and smooth the creases from her skirt, then led the way into the house.
▪ Closing the door behind me I paused briefly and listened.
▪ Henri paused briefly under an archway, a glimmer of sadness pulsing within him.
only
▪ He would pause only to take a meal in the dining-room, where he would sell his pens to visiting salesmen.
▪ They eat almost continuously for a month, pausing only to shed their skins several times to accommodate their ever-increasing bodies.
▪ He paused only the once, gazing down at the burnt meat that had been his friend and comrade for so long.
▪ Astonished Humberside airport workers watched the bosses pause only to check their briefcases and take souvenir snaps of their twin-engine plane.
▪ He paused only to shake the wet from his shoulders, then trod up the slippery slope to the house door.
■ NOUN
breath
▪ She paused for breath and found her hand on the grey standing stone.
▪ He stops, pausing for breath.
▪ At the top of the cliff we paused to catch our breath and look around.
▪ They would pause for breath, swear, and then come together again, their fists up, moving in.
▪ We clung together, breathless, until we had to pause for breath.
▪ Then, without pausing for breath or breaking her stride, she pushed open the door of his private office.
door
▪ He turned and headed for the door where he paused for a moment.
▪ Outside the door she paused, breathing the chill and chilling air.
▪ As he passed Jenny's door he paused momentarily, but shook his head at himself and went on down the stairs.
▪ Alison accompanied him to the door, where they paused.
▪ Outside Phoebe's open bedroom door Rachel paused, wondering if her daughter had heard the explosion and responded to it.
doorway
▪ Despite all her resolution, she paused outside the plate-glass doorway and looked around guiltily.
▪ She paused in the doorway leading to the grey corridor that ran across the back of the house.
▪ The clerk glared angrily at him as he paused in the doorway.
▪ She paused in the doorway of Nathan's room.
moment
▪ The clanging made Noddy pause for a moment which allowed Geoffrey to get out into the front path.
▪ He paused for a moment, increasing the magnification on the microscope.
▪ Let us pause, for a moment, to note what that would entail.
▪ Let's pause for a moment, while I ask you to imagine the smell of newly baked bread or freshly percolated coffee.
▪ He paused for a moment, his head bowed in silent prayer.
▪ Stop and think Let's pause for a moment and think about this issue of arguments and the learning process.
thought
▪ Their sparring for position of least-favoured son gave me pause for thought.
▪ Then he paused to collect his thoughts.
▪ Hidden hostilities have given you pause for thought.
▪ It has affected me and made me pause for thought.
▪ Back to the other chair, and so on - moving every time you pause for thought.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pregnant pause/silence
▪ The problem with his lofty sentiments and pregnant pauses was that they were completely eclipsed by his reputation.
▪ There was a long silence - what I think might be called a pregnant pause.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Pausing briefly at the door, Linus straightened his tie.
▪ Jill paused for a moment to look at her notes.
▪ Kim was reading her e-mail, but she paused and looked up when I came in.
▪ Lawrence paused and turned to me: "Look, if you don't think it's a good idea, don't go."
▪ She talked for about twenty minutes without even pausing for breath.
▪ We waited while Graham paused to light a cigarette.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Arriving back at the cottage for the last time Ludens paused to look and listen.
▪ Children can run through without pausing.
▪ Her heart leaped into her mouth, and she paused.
▪ It was unusual for Hal to pause so long.
▪ Subjects might pause out of habit at points where it would be appropriate for them to pause when reading aloud.
▪ The two girls paused, grimy and breathless, in the middle of the sick display.
▪ There are ways of pausing records that really are interesting.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
awkward
▪ His eyebrows rose slightly at her scarcely hidden hostility, and there was an awkward pause.
▪ An awkward pause swelled in the room.
brief
▪ Just a few words, but there was a nod of understanding, the briefest pause, before the two men stood.
▪ There was a brief pause, then the caller tried again.
▪ Balvinder Singh dropped me outside during a brief pause in the rain.
▪ But there was a brief and uncharacteristic pause before he continued.
▪ The brief pause while he slipped off his clothing was like agony; then he was next to her, hard and demanding.
▪ At last, when there was a brief pause, Woodruffe cleared his throat.
▪ Disconnected speech Brief pauses are required in the speech to discriminate between different words.
long
▪ After a long pause, she nodded and the story emerged of a stillbirth she had experienced in her early twenties.
▪ A long pause, then the pointer went to fifty.
▪ Just a long, sad pause.
▪ The presence of the light was sufficient to reduce the number of long pauses by 35 percent.
▪ There was a long pause during which Julian, instantly defensive, took stock of the situation.
▪ The most consistent paratone-final marker is the long pause, normally exceeding one second.
▪ After a long pause, yes.
▪ Apparently they did, for there was a long pause before the door hissed open.
momentary
▪ Algernon Peckham glanced at him, and there was a momentary pause before he moved on to speak to James Pegg.
▪ Their faces were blue, and their stillness not a mass death but as though a momentary pause in group exercise.
▪ There was a momentary pause, and then the sentence he had typed was repeated in soft tones through the right-hand earpiece.
▪ The momentary pause had turned suspicion into certainty.
pregnant
▪ The problem with his lofty sentiments and pregnant pauses was that they were completely eclipsed by his reputation.
▪ There was a long silence - what I think might be called a pregnant pause.
short
▪ After a short pause to watch us, she passed on surrounded by the Lord Lieutenant of Dorset and other local dignitaries.
▪ I said after a short pause.
▪ In speech, however, this division is marked by intonation as well as by a short pause.
slight
▪ Then the slight pause, the half-second of calm and false progress.
■ NOUN
button
▪ Both machines have a pause button for interruptions.
▪ Everything freezes on the court, like some one has hit the pause button and suspended the characters in a movie.
▪ Every few seconds, Jody hits the pause button, freezing a frame to show them how out of position they are.
▪ Remember when we talked about the pause button on a video camera?
■ VERB
give
▪ Knowing what Edmund has done to his real father might have given Cornwall pause before proclaiming himself the next one.
▪ Even seemingly innocuous turnstile-exits with interlocking horizontal bars give my sister pause, however.
▪ The title itself gives pause for thought.
▪ The breadth of this holding gives one pause.
▪ It is a comparison which should give pause to those tempted automatically to condemn the Government.
▪ But it gave you some pause to think of what else might be crawling around there.
▪ But the example of Handel's operas and Weber's Euryanthe give one pause.
▪ The ease with which the supposedly neutral prosecutorial apparatus is manipulated should give us all pause.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ After a brief pause, Sharon said, "You're right."
▪ After a long pause, Barney said: "Yes, I suppose you're right."
▪ There was a pause in the conversation as everyone turned to say hello to Paul.
▪ We worked for four hours without a pause.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Balvinder Singh dropped me outside during a brief pause in the rain.
▪ Even seemingly innocuous turnstile-exits with interlocking horizontal bars give my sister pause, however.
▪ I said after a short pause.
▪ So if pauses are necessary, it is legitimate to ask what a speaker is doing during these periods of silence.
▪ The best he could do to simulate this pause for reflection, was to use repetition at certain points.
▪ There was a long pause, then, before it observed that some-thing was falling down toward it from the orbiting ship.
▪ There was no pause among them, no need to conjure either the memory or the boat itself.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
pause

Hold \Hold\ (h[=o]ld), n.

  1. The act of holding, as in or with the hands or arms; the manner of holding, whether firm or loose; seizure; grasp; clasp; grip; possession; -- often used with the verbs take and lay.

    Ne have I not twelve pence within mine hold.
    --Chaucer.

    Thou should'st lay hold upon him.
    --B. Jonson.

    My soul took hold on thee.
    --Addison.

    Take fast hold of instruction.
    --Pror. iv. 13.

  2. The authority or ground to take or keep; claim.

    The law hath yet another hold on you.
    --Shak.

  3. Binding power and influence.

    Fear . . . by which God and his laws take the surest hold of.
    --Tillotson.

  4. Something that may be grasped; means of support.

    If a man be upon an high place without rails or good hold, he is ready to fall.
    --Bacon.

  5. A place of confinement; a prison; confinement; custody; guard.

    They . . . put them in hold unto the next day.
    --Acts. iv. 3.

    King Richard, he is in the mighty hold Of Bolingbroke.
    --Shak.

  6. A place of security; a fortified place; a fort; a castle; -- often called a stronghold.
    --Chaucer.

    New comers in an ancient hold
    --Tennyson.

  7. (Mus.) A character [thus ?] placed over or under a note or rest, and indicating that it is to be prolonged; -- called also pause, and corona.

pause

Corona \Co*ro"na\ (k?-r?"n?), n.; pl. L. Coron[ae] (-n?), E. Coronas (-n?z). [L. corona crown. See Crown.]

  1. A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.

  2. (Arch.) The projecting part of a Classic cornice, the under side of which is cut with a recess or channel so as to form a drip. See Illust. of Column.

  3. (Anat.) The upper surface of some part, as of a tooth or the skull; a crown.

  4. (Zo["o]l.) The shelly skeleton of a sea urchin.

  5. (Astronomy) A peculiar luminous appearance, or aureola, which surrounds the sun, and which is seen only when the sun is totally eclipsed by the moon.

  6. (Bot.)

    1. An inner appendage to a petal or a corolla, often forming a special cup, as in the daffodil and jonquil.

    2. Any crownlike appendage at the top of an organ.

  7. (Meteorol.)

    1. A circle, usually colored, seen in peculiar states of the atmosphere around and close to a luminous body, as the sun or moon.

    2. A peculiar phase of the aurora borealis, formed by the concentration or convergence of luminous beams around the point in the heavens indicated by the direction of the dipping needle.

  8. A crown or circlet suspended from the roof or vaulting of churches, to hold tapers lighted on solemn occasions. It is sometimes formed of double or triple circlets, arranged pyramidically. Called also corona lucis.
    --Fairholt.

  9. (Mus.) A character [[pause]] called the pause or hold.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pause

early 15c., from Old French pausee "a pause, interruption" (14c.) and directly from Latin pausa "a halt, stop, cessation," from Greek pausis "stopping, ceasing," from pauein "to stop, to cause to cease," from PIE root *paus- "to leave, desert, cease, stop."

pause

mid-15c., from pause (n.) and from Middle French pauser, from Late Latin pausare "to halt, cease, pause," ultimately from Late Latin pausa. Related: Paused; pausing.

Wiktionary
pause

n. A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation. vb. (context intransitive English) To interrupt an activity and wait.

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WordNet
pause

  1. n. a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something [syn: intermission, break, interruption, suspension]

  2. temporary inactivity

  3. v. interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing; "The speaker paused" [syn: hesitate]

  4. cease an action temporarily; "We pause for station identification"; "let's break for lunch" [syn: intermit, break]

Wikipedia
Pause

Pause may refer to:

  • Rest (music), musical pause
  • Fermata, a musical pause of indefinite duration
Pause (Run–D.M.C. song)

"Pause" is the first single released from Run–D.M.C.'s fifth studio album, Back from Hell. It was released in 1989 alongside Run-D.M.C.'s version of " Ghostbusters" and was produced by Jam Master Jay and Davy D. "Pause" peaked at number 51 on the Billboard Hot Black Singles chart and number 11 on the Hot Rap Singles chart.

Pause (The Boondocks)

"Pause" is the eighth episode of the third season of the Adult Swim original series The Boondocks. It aired on June 20, 2010, and on October 11, 2010, on Centric. The title refers to a blue collar African-American cultural practice used to remove any ambiguity after making a double entendre that may be possibly misinterpreted as a claim or implication of homosexual orientation. The phrase " no homo" may also be used instead of or in addition to "pause".

Pause (Pitbull song)

"Pause" is a song from American rapper Pitbull's sixth studio album, Planet Pit. The song was written by Armando C. Perez, Adrian Santalla, Abdesamad Ben Abdelouahid, Ari Kalimi and Urales Vargas, and it was produced by DJ Buddha. The song peaked to number 33 on the New Zealand Singles Chart.

"Pause" was used to promote the Zumba fitness program. It is also the theme song of the video game Zumba Fitness 2.

Pause (P-Model album)

Pause is the first live album by P-Model. It was recorded at the final show by the "defrosted" lineup.

Pause (album)

Pause is the second album by Four Tet. It was released on 28 May 2001 in the United Kingdom and on 9 October 2001 in the United States. Pause was Four Tet's first release on Domino Records; his debut album, Dialogue, had been distributed by Output Recordings.

A recording of an office setting, most prominently featuring the sounds of typing on a computer keyboard, forms a recurring motif in the album; it both opens ("Glue of the World") and closes ("Hilarious Movie of the 90's") the album, and is also present in "Harmony One".

Three tracks from Pause were later released in remixed form on Four Tet's Paws EP.

The acoustic guitar track "Everything Is Alright" is used as the theme music for the National Public Radio programme On Point.

The opening track "Glue of the World" is used in the background of the Six Feet Under episode "Someone Else's Eyes" (Season 2, Episode 9). This same track is used in the House M.D. episode 'Last Resort'. It is played over the top of various scenes from the hospital as the hostages are being released and/or detained.

The fourth track entitled "Parks" contains a sample of "After the Snow, The Fragrance" and "Sanzen (Moment of Truth)" both from the album Music for Zen Meditation by jazz clarinetist Tony Scott.

Pause (Jay Dee song)

"Pause" is a single by Jay Dee that was chosen to lead his 2001 (see 2001 in music) album, Welcome 2 Detroit. Besides a grunt and an ad-lib, ("Bounce"), Jay Dee himself doesn't perform on the song, but instead features his friends Frank-N-Dank, who brace the horn-laced track with suitably over-the-top braggadocio. Much of Dank's opening first is later featured in scratches on Dilla's Ruff Draft EP song Let's Take It Back.

The appropriately titled "Featuring Phat Kat" sees his one time fellow 1st Down member Phat Kat on the mic, while Jay Dee provides a subdued, but gritty canvas for him to let loose. The song is also notable for featuring one of Jay Dee's DJ Premier-esque scratch montages.

Pause (musician)

Daniel Zisette Kushnir better known by his stage name Pause is an American musician and rap artist. The multi-instrumentalist producer has risen to prominence in 2013 with placements on the Showtime series Ray Donovan (song: "Shouts Out") and Volition, Inc.'s 2013 release, Saints Row IV ( soundtrack) (song: "Caroline").

Pause (film)

Pause is a 2014 Swiss comedy film directed by Mathieu Urfer. It was one of seven films shortlisted by Switzerland to be their submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards, but it lost out to Iraqi Odyssey.

Pause (band)

Pause is a Thai rock band. This band worked with Bakery music. Pause was composed of a small group of students who are interested in music from the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts Program in Music in Srinakharinwirot University. Pause had a chance to play in Rock Music Radio and has been interested in Bakery music. ‘Tee – Wang’ is the most popular song that made this band very well known. After Jo Amarin (lead singer) died, Pause disbanded. After that, the other members separated and pursued their own music career. Nor ( Norathep Masaeng), the bassist, is now the bassist of the Cressendo Band. A (Polkrit Viriyanuphap), the guitarist, is now the guitarist of the Casino14 Band. Boss (Niruj Daetboon), the drummer, is now also the drummer of the Cressendo Band. However, although time passed by, Pause is still very popular until today.

Usage examples of "pause".

I paused to take in the multicolored tapestry of melted and rehardened minerals, still furiously aboil to the untutored eye.

Cofort rose and made to follow, her graceful form showing no sign of the high acceleration, but when she paused to glance back, Jellico gave in to impulse and stayed her with a gesture.

Then they came around the corner, and Damien paused just long enough to acertain that there were only two of them before he swung.

Monk paused, his voice acknowledging her worry and, perhaps, his own misgivings about Fleet.

She paused and waited to see how I would react and then I realized that she was talking about Aden Fiske and not the dean or someone at Caldwell College, where I teach.

She lifted the device to her neck, but she paused before administering it.

She paused a moment before laying her hand against the admittance plate, composing her face and trying to calm her racing heartbeat.

Fully afrown, I paused by a window to draw aside the thin cloth which covered it, immediately discovering the presence of thick, heavy raindrops covering the outside of the maglessa-weave panes.

He has a twenty-eight-year pattern of aggression, violence, miscalculation, and purposeful underestimation of the consequences of his actions that should give real pause to anyone considering whether to allow him to acquire nuclear weapons.

This must have been one of his bored days, spent wandering aimlessly through the house with an occasional pause to glance over some possession of his before he grew tired of it and began wandering again.

The herd paused for an instant at the edge of the slope, but Akela gave tongue in the full hunting yell, and they pitched over one after the other just as steamers shoot rapids, the sand and stones spurting up round them.

There was a gown of purple silk that gave her pause, and another of dark blue velvet slashed with silver that would have woken all the color in her eyes, but in the end she remembered that Alayne was after all a bastard.

Now the pale-faced female paused and looked to Albedo for instructions.

Pausing to tune the harp, he snapped the string and, after a tense, whispered exchange with Alec, rose and bowed to the mayor.

Nysander paused, regarding Alec for a moment from beneath his shaggy brows.