pause

名词 n. 动词 v. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义
英 /pɔːz/|/poːz/    美 /poːz/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
    — If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough.
  2. A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
  3. Hesitation; suspense; doubt. figuratively
    — to take pause
    to hesitate
  4. In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark.
    — Teach the pupil to mind the pauses.
  5. A break or paragraph in writing.
    — He [Paul] is full of the Matter he treats and writes with Warmth, which uſually neglects Method, and thoſe Partitions and Pauſes which Men educated in the Schools of Rhetoricians uſually obſerve.
  6. A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.
  7. Alternative letter-case form of Pause (“a button that pauses or resumes something”). alt-of
动词 v.
  1. To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort. intransitive
  2. To stop (an activity) for a while. transitive
    — The general public could therefore have been forgiven for thinking that work on the new station had stopped. But pausing work on an active construction site of this size is not straightforward.
  3. To interrupt an activity and wait. intransitive
    — When telling the scary story, he paused for effect.
  4. To hesitate; to hold back; to delay. intransitive
    — Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture.
  5. To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point. transitive
    — to pause a song, a video, or a computer game
  6. To consider; to reflect. intransitive,obsolete
    — Take time to pause.
感叹词 intj.
  1. Used immediately after a statement to indicate that there was no innuendo or homosexual meaning intended, especially when such a meaning is a reasonable interpretation. slang

词形变化

pauses present,singular,third-person pausing participle,present paused participle,past paused past pauses plural

词汇关系

近义词
break breather cessation demurral gap caesura hiatus halt halting interregnum interruption lapse moratorium pause recess respite resting stoppage stopping suspension
反义词
finish
上位词
discontinuity period
下位词
intermission interval prorogation stop time-out vacation coffee break comfort stop fag break smoko tea break breaktime half time lunchtime playtime
衍生词
nonpausing pausable pausingly prepause unpause aeropause autopause coffee pause Engels' pause filled pause Gigapause give pause hit pause hit the pause button homopause interpause intrapause ionopause Macready pause micropause millennial pause nonpause normal pause Omegapause pause ad pause buffer pause buffering pauseful pauseless pregnant pause press pause somatopause spoken pause
相关词
delay desist

词源

词源 1
From Middle French pause, from Latin pausa, from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis), from Ancient Greek παύω (paúō, “stop”), of uncertain origin. Doublet of pausa.
词源 2
From Middle French pause, from Latin pausa, from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis), from Ancient Greek παύω (paúō, “stop”), of uncertain origin. Doublet of pausa.
词源 3
From Middle French pause, from Latin pausa, from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis), from Ancient Greek παύω (paúō, “stop”), of uncertain origin. Doublet of pausa.
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