Pause

·noun A hold. ·see 4th Hold, 7.

II. Pause ·noun A break or paragraph in writing.

III. Pause ·vt To cause to stop or rest;

— used reflexively.

IV. Pause ·noun Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.

V. Pause ·noun To be intermitted; to Cease; as, the music pauses.

VI. Pause ·noun To Hesitate; to hold back; to Delay.

VII. Pause ·noun To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to Reflect.

VIII. Pause ·noun A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.

IX. 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.

X. 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.

XI. Pause ·noun To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to Stop; to Wait; to Rest.