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.
Definitions
- noun. A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
- noun. Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.
- noun. In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts.
- 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.
- noun. A break or paragraph in writing.
- noun. A hold. See 4th Hold, 7.
- noun. To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest.
- noun. To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses.
- noun. To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
- noun. To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect.
- transitive verb. To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively.
- noun. temporary inactivity
- noun. a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- verb. cease an action temporarily
"We pause for station identification"
"let's break for lunch"
- verb. interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing
"The speaker paused"
Synonyms
break, intermission, interruption, suspension, intermit, hesitate
Common word forms
paused, pauser, pauses, pausing, pauseful, pauseless, pausement
Words from these letters
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