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The noun pause means "a short break," like the pauses in television shows that allow for commercials to be shown.

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A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.

Noun
temporary inactivity

Noun
a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something

Verb
cease an action temporarily; "We pause for station identification"; "let''s break for lunch"

Verb
interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing; "The speaker paused"

n.
A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.

n.
Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.

n.
In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts.

n.
In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach the pupil to mind the pauses.

n.
A break or paragraph in writing.

n.
A hold. See 4th Hold, 7.

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

n.
To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses.

n.
To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.

n.
To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect.

v. t.
To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively.

Pause

Pause , n. [F., fr. L. pausa. See Pose.] 1. A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation. 2. Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.

I stand in pause where I shall first begin.

3. In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts. 4. In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach the pupil to mind the pauses. 5. A break or paragraph in writing.

He writes with warmth, which usually neglects method, and those partitions and pauses which men educated in schools observe.

6. (Mus.) A hold. See 4th Hold, 7. Syn. -- Stop; cessation; suspension.

Pause

Pause, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Paused ; p. pr. & vb. n. Pausing.] [Cf. F. pauser, L. pausare. See Pause, n., Pose.] 1. To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest. "Tarry, pause a day or two." Shak.

Pausing while, thus to herself she mused.

2. To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses. 3. To hesitate; to hold back; to delay. [R.]

Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture.

4. To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect. [R.] "Take time to pause." Shak. To pause upon, to deliberate concerning. Shak. Syn. -- To intermit; stop; stay; wait; delay; tarry; hesitate; demur.

Pause

Pause, v. t. To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively. [R.] Shak.

A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.

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

To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively.

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Usage Examples

Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?

Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, 'Oh, baby,' if there's a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool.

To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.

I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.

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Other Usage Examples

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us - a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.