Definition of Pause

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Definition of Pause

Pause

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

Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.

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

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.

A break or paragraph in writing.

A hold. See 4th Hold, 7.

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

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

To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.

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

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

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Pause Quotations

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

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

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark Twain

It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
Jack Benny

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

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?
Lee Iacocca

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.
Al Pacino

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
Lewis Carroll

Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others.
Margaret J. Wheatley

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.
Herbert Hoover

Pause Translations

pause in Afrikaans is pouse
pause in Dutch is pauzeren
pause in Finnish is tauko
pause in French is pause
pause in Portuguese is pausa
pause in Spanish is descanso, hacer una pausa, pausa

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