pause
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pause/pɔːz/
▶verb stop temporarily.
■ temporarily interrupt (a process or device).
▶noun a temporary stop in action or speech.■ Music a mark (𝄐) over a note or rest that is to be lengthened by an unspecified amount.
■ a control allowing the temporary interruption of recording, playback, or other process.
– phrases
give someone pause (for thought) cause someone to think carefully or hesitate before doing something.
give someone pause (for thought) cause someone to think carefully or hesitate before doing something.
– origin ME: from OFr., from L. pausa, from Gk pausis, from pausein ‘to stop’.
'pause' also found in these Oxford entries:
beat
- break
- breather
- breathing space
- caesura
- check
- comma
- dash
- dwell
- end-stopped
- enjambement
- fermata
- filler
- go
- hesitate
- hiatus
- incessant
- interlude
- intermission
- interval
- let-up
- menopause
- pose
- pull
- repose
- rest
- resume
- semicolon
- short
- station break
- status asthmaticus
- tropopause
- um
