Pause

n.	1.	A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
	2.	Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt. I stand in pause where I shall first begin. - Shak.
	3.	In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts.
	4.	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.
	5.	A break or paragraph in writing. He writes with warmth, which usually neglects method, and those partitions and pauses which men educated in schools observe. - Locke.
	6.	(Mus.) A hold. See 4th Hold, 7.
v. i.	1.	To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest. [imp. & p. p. Paused (pạzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Pausing.] Pausing a while, thus to herself she mused. - Milton.
	2.	To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses.
	3.	To hesitate; to hold back; to delay. Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture. - Shak.
	4.	To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect. To pause upon to deliberate concerning. - Shak.
v. t.	1.	To cause to stop or rest; - used reflexively.

Noun	1.	pause - a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something Synonyms: intermission, suspension, interruption, break
	2.	pause - temporary inactivity
Verb	1.	pause - interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing; "The speaker paused" Synonyms: hesitate
	2.	pause - cease an action temporarily; "We pause for station identification"; "let's break for lunch" Synonyms: intermit, break

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