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▸ verb: (intransitive) To interrupt an activity and wait.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
▸ verb: (transitive) To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.
▸ verb: (intransitive, obsolete) To consider; to reflect.
▸ noun: A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
▸ noun: A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
▸ noun: Hesitation; suspense; doubt.
▸ noun: In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark.
▸ noun: A break or paragraph in writing.
▸ noun: (music) A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.
▸ noun: (as direct object) take pause: hesitate; give pause: cause to hesitate
▸ noun: A button whose functions are pausing and resuming something, such as a DVD player, a video game or a computer.
▸ noun: Alternative spelling of Pause (“a button that pauses or resumes something”) [A button whose functions are pausing and resuming something, such as a DVD player, a video game or a computer.]
Similar:
intermission,
hesitate,
break,
suspension,
interruption,
intermit,
pause.,
rewind,
ponder,
interject,
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long,
short,
brief,
slight,
little,
momentary,
awkward,
second,
compensatory,
considerable,
dramatic
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