English Dictionary

pause

IPA（発音記号）

/pɔːz/

名詞

別表記 異形 直接目的語

A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation. / A short time for relaxing and doing something else. / Hesitation; suspense; doubt.

日本語の意味

一時停止、一時的な中断 / 休憩または中断の時間、インターミッション / ためらい、躊躇

After an intense debate, the committee agreed to take a short pause before making a final decision.

激しい議論の後、委員会は最終決定を下す前に短い休憩を取ることに同意した。

意味（1）

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

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.

意味（2）

A short time for relaxing and doing something else.

意味（3）

Hesitation; suspense; doubt.

And like a man to double buſsines bound, / I ſtand in pauſe where I ſhall firſt beginne, …

意味（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.

意味（5）

A break or paragraph in writing.

He [Paul] is full of the Matter he treats and writes with Warmth, which uſually neglects Method, and thoſe Partitions and Pauſes which Men educated in the Schools of Rhetoricians uſually obſerve.

意味（6）

(music) A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.

意味（7）

Alternative spelling of Pause (“a button that pauses or resumes something”)

意味（8）

(as direct object) take pause: hesitate; give pause: cause to hesitate

pauses （ plural ）