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
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?
Lee Iacocca
It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
Jack Benny
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire
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.
Charles Stanley
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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