Dictionary Entry
pause
pause is a 5-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 15 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
- 2noun
Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.
- 3noun
In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
A break or paragraph in writing.
- 6noun
A hold. See 4th Hold, 7.
- 7noun
To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest.
- 8noun
To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses.
- 9noun
To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
- 10noun
To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect.
- 11transitive verb
To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively.
- 12noun
temporary inactivity
- 13noun
a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- 14verb
cease an action temporarily
"We pause for station identification"
"let's break for lunch"
- 15verb
interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing
"The speaker paused"
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