PAUSE

noun a hold. ·see 4th hold, 7.

2. pause ·noun a break or paragraph in writing.

3. pause ·vt to cause to stop or rest;

— used reflexively.

4. pause ·noun temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.

5. pause ·noun to be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses.

6. pause ·noun to hesitate; to hold back; to delay.

7. pause ·noun to stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect.

8. pause ·noun a temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.

9. pause ·noun in speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts.

10. pause ·noun 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.

11. pause ·noun to make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest.