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    verb
    pause (verb) · pauses (third person present) · paused (past tense) · paused (past participle) · pausing (present participle)
    1. interrupt action or speech briefly:
      "she paused, at a loss for words"
      • temporarily interrupt the operation of (a videotape, audiotape, or computer program):
        "she had paused a tape on the VCR"
    noun
    pause (noun) · pauses (plural noun) · pause button (noun) · pause buttons (plural noun)
    1. a temporary stop in action or speech:
      "she dropped me outside during a brief pause in the rain" · "the admiral chattered away without pause"
      • music
        a mark over a note or rest that is to be lengthened by an unspecified amount; a fermata.
      • a control allowing the temporary interruption of an electronic (or mechanical) process, especially video or audio recording or reproduction.
    Origin
    late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin pausa, from Greek pausis, from pausein ‘to stop’.
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    verb
    1. interrupt action or speech briefly:
      stop
      cease
      halt
      discontinue
      break off
      adjourn
      desist
      rest
      hold back
      wait
      delay
      hesitate
      hang back
      pull up
      mark time
      falter
      waver
      take a break
      take a breath
      Opposite:
      continue
      proceed
      noun
      1. a temporary stop in action or speech:
        stop
        cessation
        break
        halt
        stoppage
        standstill
        interruption
        check
        lull
        respite
        stay
        breathing space
        discontinuation
        discontinuance
        hiatus
        gap
        interlude
        intermission
        interval
        entr'acte
        adjournment
        suspension
        moratorium
        interregnum
        rest
        time out
        stopover
        delay
        holdup
        wait
        hesitation
        beat
        caesura
        lapse (of time)

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        What does pause mean in music?1.1 Music a mark over a note or rest that is to be lengthened by an unspecified amount. 1.2 (also pause button) a control allowing the temporary interruption of recording, playback, or other process. late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin pausa, from Greek pausis, from pausein 'to stop'. interrupt action or speech briefly: .

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