1. • noun - a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
   • noun - temporary inactivity
   • verb - interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing
   • verb - cease an action temporarily
2. • To cease or suspend an action temporarily.
   • To linger; tarry: paused for a while under the huge oak tree.
   • To hesitate: He paused before replying.
   • A temporary cessation.
   • A delay or suspended reaction, as from uncertainty; a hesitation: After a pause the audience broke into cheers.
   • A break, stop, or rest, often for a calculated purpose or effect: After a dramatic pause, the lawyer finished her summation.
   • Music.
   • A break or rest in a line of poetry; a caesura.
   • The central meaning shared by these nouns is “a temporary stop, as in activity”: a short pause in the conversation; a concert with the usual 15-minute intermission; the legislature’s summer recess; toiling without respite; a suspension of work.
3. • v - to stop temporarily

WORD BUILDER