Pause

Verb

 * 1) To interrupt current work and do something else for a moment.

Noun

 * 1) A short time for relaxing and doing something else.

Adjectives for Pause
slow; awkward; haunting; appreciable; unconscious ; normal; week-end; effect-collecting; thoughtful; cogitative; awful; terrible; pensive; ominous; brief; perceptible; discontented; reminiscent; deep; melancholy; decided; musing; appalling; stifling; suitable; inexplicable; humming; solemn; reticent; doubtful; grateful; considerable; frequent (pi); rapturous; transitory; uncomfortable; eternal; determined; respectful; transient; convenient; ensuing; natural; thrilling; present; discreet; wild-swan; habitual; rhetorical; painful; eloquent.

Verbs for Pause
abstain from—s; destroy—; incur—; observe—; supply—; waste in—; —arrests; — emphasizes; —ensues; —falls; —halts; — hovers; —hushes; —impresses; —interposes; —interrupts; —intervenes; —persists; —suspends.

Adverbs for Pause
reflectively; dramatically; reminiscently; instinctively; irresolutely; briefly; delicately; meaningfully; diffidently; lingeringly; ominously; deliberately; pensively; solemnly; discreetly.

Thesaurus
abeyance, accent, accent mark, afterthought, back down, balance, bar, bashfulness, bind, blench, block, blockage, boggle, boggling, boundary, breach, break, breath, breathe, breather, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time, breve rest, bureaucratic delay, caesura, call a break, call a recess, call time, cancel, cease-fire, cessation, character, cigarette break, clause boundary, clause terminal, close juncture, cocktail hour, coffee break, colon, comma, compunction, custos, day off, debate, declare a recess, delay, delayage, delayed reaction, deliberate, demur, demurral, detention, diffidence, direct, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinue, discontinuity, dot, double take, downtime, dragging, drop, eighth rest, enforced respite, expression mark, falling terminal, falter, faltering, fear, fermata, fight shy of, fissure, flinch, gap, half rest, half time, half-time intermission, halt, hang back, hang off, hang-up, happy hour, have qualms, hem and haw, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitate, hesitation, hiatus, hindrance, hold, hold off, hold up, hold-up, holdup, holiday, hover, hum and haw, interim, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, intermit, intermittence, interregnum, interrupt, interruption, interval, intervene, jam, jib, juncture, key signature, knock off, lacuna, lag, lagging, lapse, lay off, layoff, lead, let up, letup, ligature, logjam, lull, make bones about, mark, mark time, measure, metronomic mark, minim, modesty, moratorium, notation, objection, obstruction, off-time, open juncture, paperasserie, period, plateau, point, point of repose, ponder, presa, protest, pull back, quail, qualm, qualm of conscience, qualmishness, quarter rest, quiet spell, recess, recoil, red tape, red-tapeism, red-tapery, relief, remission, reprieve, respite, rest, resting point, retardance, retardation, retreat, rising terminal, sandhi, scruple, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, segno, semicolon, shilly-shally, shrink, shrinking, shy, shy at, shyness, sign, signature, sixteenth rest, slow-up, slowdown, slowness, slur, spell, stand-down, stay, stay of execution, stick at, stickle, stickling, stop, stop for breath, stop to consider, stoppage, straddle the fence, strain, strain at, surcease, suspend, suspension, swell, symbol, take a break, take a recess, take a rest, take five, take ten, take time out, tea break, tempo mark, terminal, think twice about, tie, tie-up, time lag, time off, time out, time signature, truce, vacation, vinculum, wait, waver, wince, withdraw, word boundary, yield

Etymology
From pause:, from  pausa:, from  παῦσις:

Pronunciation





 * ; pores, pours

Verb

 * Arabic: توقف
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 停頓, 停顿,  暫停,  暂停
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: pysähtyä, tauota, pitää tauko
 * French: faire une pause, pauser


 * German: pausieren,
 * Japanese: 中断する,
 * Latvian: pārtraukt
 * Russian: делать паузу
 * Serbian:
 * Spanish:, ,

Noun

 * Arabic:  ,
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 停頓, 停顿,  暫停,  暂停
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, , , , ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: παῦσις
 * Modern: παύση


 * Hebrew: אתנח
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 休止 (きゅうし, kyūshi)
 * Korean: 멈춤 (meomchum)
 * Latvian: pārtraukums
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: ,
 * Slovene: pavza, odmor
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Noun

 * 1) pause, break

Etymology
From pausa:.

Noun
pause



Noun

 * 1) pause (short time for relaxing)

Etymology
From, from pauein:.