Usually means: Temporary stop in action, activity.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. pause: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pause: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pause: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pause: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pause: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pause, pause: Wordnik
  7. pause: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Pause, -pause, pause: Wiktionary
  9. pause: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pause: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pause: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. pause: Dictionary.com
  13. pause (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. pause: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Pause (DOS command), Pause (Four Tet album), Pause (Jay Dee song), Pause (Pitbull song), Pause (Run-D.M.C. song), Pause (The Boondocks), Pause (band), Pause (disambiguation), Pause (film), Pause (musician), Pause: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pause: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pause: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pause: Rhymezone
  19. Pause (f), pause, pause (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pause: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. pause: Free Dictionary
  22. pause: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. pause: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. pause: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. PAUSE: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pause: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pause: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. pause: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PAUSE: Acronym Finder
  2. pause: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pause, the pause: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See paused as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.
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.]

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