Associations to the word «Pausing»

Wiktionary

PAUSE, verb. (intransitive) To interrupt an activity and wait.
PAUSE, verb. (intransitive) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
PAUSE, verb. (transitive) To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.
PAUSE, verb. (intransitive) (obsolete) To consider; to reflect.
PAUSE, noun. A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
PAUSE, noun. A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
PAUSE, noun. Hesitation; suspense; doubt.
PAUSE, noun. In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark.
PAUSE, noun. A break or paragraph in writing.
PAUSE, noun. Alternative spelling of Pause
PAUSE, noun. (as direct object) take pause: hesitate; give pause: cause to hesitate
PAUSE, noun. A button whose functions are pausing and resuming something, such as a DVD player, a video game or a computer].

Dictionary definition

PAUSE, noun. A time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something.
PAUSE, noun. Temporary inactivity.
PAUSE, verb. Interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing; "The speaker paused".
PAUSE, verb. Cease an action temporarily; "We pause for station identification"; "let's break for lunch".

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley