English Dictionary

pause

/pɔːz/

noun

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

I took a pause from work to relax and recharge.

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