pausen.

Brit.

/pɔːz/, U.S.

/pɔz/,

/pɑz/

Forms: late Middle English–1600s pawse, late Middle English– pause, 1500s paws, 1600s paus, 1600s pauz, 1600s pawze; Scottish pre-1700 paus, pre-1700 pavs, pre-1700 paws, pre-1700 pawss, pre-1700 1700s– pause.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French pause; Latin pausa.

Etymology: < Middle French pause break or rest in performing music (1393; French pause ) and its etymon classical Latin pausa cessation, intermission, respite, probably < post-classical Latin pausare pause v.¹, although this is apparently first attested later. The general sense ‘short interruption of an activity’ is apparently first attested later in French (1478–80). Compare Old Occitan, Occitan pausa (a1150), Portuguese pausa (1290), Catalan pausa (c1390), Italian pausa (15th cent.; 1695 or earlier in sense ‘musical sign denoting a pause’), Spanish pausa (1423 in sense 1a; 1377 or earlier in sense ‘space of time’). Compare also Middle Dutch pause (early 16th cent.; Dutch pauze).A derivation of classical Latin pausa < ancient Greek παῦσις cessation ( < παύειν to cease, stop + -σις -sis suffix) is problematic in view of the disparity of form. In sense 4 originally an absolute use of the verbal base form in pause button n., pause control n. at pause v.¹ Compounds. With to give pause (see Phrases 1) compare classical Latin pausam dāre . In Phrases 3 after Hebrew hefseq; in phrase in pause after Hebrew behefseq.

I. Technical uses.

a. A break or rest made for effect, according to the sense, in speaking, reading, or singing; a similar break made in playing instrumental music; (Prosody) a break occurring at a fixed point in a line of poetry; a caesura; (also) a break of definite length in a verse, having a specific metrical value equivalent to a syllable or number of syllables.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > a speech > pause

pausec1426

rest1575

period1587

hyphen1868

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [noun] > caesura

caesura?1567

section1584

pause1589

c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 17 (MED) Boþ in cloyster and in quere when þat þai syng and rede, Aperte et distincte, han mynd for ham, þay pray, And kepun her pausus and her poyntis, ellus myȝt þai gete no mede.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 387 Pawse, yn redynge of bokys, periodus.

1561 T. Sternhold et al. Psalmes To Rdr. sig. Bii^v There are also oftentimes in singing, Pauses or Restes, set in songes..Which are signified by litle strikes or lines, or half lines betwene the rules.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. iv. 61 Three maner of pauses... The shortest pause or intermission they called comma... The second they called colon... The third they called periodus, for a complement or full pause.

1684 J. Dryden in Earl of Roscommon Ess. Translated Verse sig. A1 Pauses, cadence, and well vowell'd Words.

a1704 J. Locke Paraphrase Epist. St. Paul (1707) Pref. p. xxiii Those Partitions and Pauses which Men educated in the Schools of Rhetoricians usually observe.

1795 W. Mason Ess. Eng. Church Music i. 16 Where Rhythm, Pause, and Accent are peculiarly attended to by the Composer.

1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. i. 68 As you speak, your words Fill, pause by pause, my own forgotten sleep With shapes.

1882 G. C. Macaulay in 19th Cent. Dec. 908 Passages from this preface have been introduced word for word, or with insignificant changes, into subsequently published poems, being divided stichometrically into lines by the natural pauses of the sentence.

1957 B. Deutsch Poetry Handbk. (1958) 35 The pause in the last foot of the second line is made more emphatic because the words conclude the line and the poem as well.

1986 Toronto Star (Nexis) 28 July d3 This was a performance full of thoughtful pauses and deliberations by one of the major violin talents of the younger generation.

1999 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 23 Nov. e5/1 The singing stays impetuous, full of suspenseful pauses and impassioned crescendos.

b. Linguistics. A break marking juncture, sometimes regarded as having phonemic status.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > pause

breathing placea1586

breathing part1644

breaking-off1683

pause1933

1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. xii. 185 Since the constituents of phrases are free forms, the speaker may separate them by means of pauses.

1952 W. P. Lehmann Proto-Indo-European Phonol. ii. 10 Choice of positional variant in PIE was determined by preceding and following phoneme, group of phonemes, or pause.

1991 Appl. Linguistics 12 346 The measurement of pauses..is achieved through detailed analysis of spectrographic (or equivalent) printouts supplemented by perceptual checks.

2. Music.

†a. A character denoting an interval of silence; a rest. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [noun] > rest sign

rest?1553

pausec1570

c1570 Art of Music (BL Add. 4911) f. 4, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Paus(e Quhat is ane paus? It is ane figur or ane virgule..hawin for ane sing of tasiturnitie missorit with artificial sylence eftur the quantatie of ewerrie noit till it appropriat.

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 9 Phi. What strokes be these? Ma. These be called rests or pauses.

1614 T. Ravenscroft Briefe Disc. Musicke 21 Pauses, or Rests are silent Characters, or an Artificiall omission of the voyce, repraesenting the quantity of the Inward notes.

1636 C. Butler Princ. Musik iv. 37 A Pauz is a mark of rest or silence in a song.

1740 J. Grassineau tr. S. De Brossard Musical Dict. 176 Pause, a character of silence and repose, called by some mute figure.

b. The character  or ? placed over or under a note, chord, rest, or silent bar, to indicate that it is to be extended for an unspecified period, or over a bar line to indicate an indefinite interval of silence; = fermata n. Also: the action resulting from this.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [noun] > pause sign

pause1614

hold1660

stay1667

fermata1876

1614 T. Ravenscroft Briefe Disc. Musicke 22 And last of all, as necessary to all Harmonies, pertaine certain Signes for diuers vses,..as Pauses.

1676 T. Mace Musick's Monument 209 [It] may be divided..into Several Strains; which you may perceive by the Pauses, and Double Barrs, I have made.

1806 J. W. Callcott Musical Gram. vi. 73 The Pause is placed over a Note to signify that the regular time of the Movement is to be delayed.

1880 J. A. Fuller-Maitland in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 676/1 Pauses at the end of a movement, over a rest, or even over a silent bar, are intended to give a short breathing-space before going on to the next movement.

1903 E. Elgar Let. 1 Nov. in J. N. Moore Elgar & his Publishers (1987) I. 519 Surely there need be no alteration except a pause over the chords.

2001 New Grove Dict. Mus. (Online ed.) at Pause In music for a soloist, a pause in the solo part may indicate that an improvised cadenza is called for.

3. Military. A time for reflection imposed on an aggressor by the use of conventional forces, before resort to defence with nuclear weapons. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > [noun] > use of nuclear weapons against > pause before

pause1962

1962 Listener 29 Mar. 549/2 General Norstad..says..that what he needs in order to impose what he calls the pause, in order to identify a threat, in order to relieve himself of the intolerable choice between retreating and using nuclear weapons, is thirty divisions.

1962 Listener 19 Apr. 674/1 The time has come to declare a ‘pause’ on the culture-front.

1966 U. Schwarz & L. Hadik Strategic Terminol. 85 Pause, in the defense of Western Europe, a moment of reflection imposed on any aggressor before the defense resorts to nuclear weapons.

1984 Washington Q. (Nexis) Fall 136 West Europeans are as much repelled by such notions as ‘pauses’ and ‘firebreaks’ as Americans are naturally attracted to them.

4. The facility for suspending or interrupting the operation of an electronic device, such as a tape recorder, video player, piece of computer software, etc. Also concrete: the control itself.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > [noun] > playback equipment > specific facility

fast forward1947

edit1953

pause button1957

pause control1957

freeze-frame1961

pause1965

review1969

slo-mo1969

auto-fade1977

cue1978

1965 Which? Nov. 324/1 (table) ‘Pause’ on microphone.

1974 Hist. Teacher 7 545 Other decks..would have offered us added features such as instant pause.

1986 Photographer May 26/1 Play the cassette in the normal way and while listening to it operate the pause on the cassette and video together.

2000 JavaWorld (Nexis) Nov. It can easily be extended to support additional operations such as pause and restart.

II. General uses.

a. An act of stopping or ceasing for a short time in a course of action; a short interval of silence or inaction, esp. one arising from uncertainty, doubt, or reflection; an intermission; a delay, a hesitation.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > [noun] > a temporary cessation of activity or operation

pause1440

trip1584

interpause1595

wem1599

stand1602

vacation1617

interspiration1623

intercisiona1631

interregnum1659

lapse1838

shutdown1857

break1878

slip1898

seventh-inning stretch1915

standoff1918

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 387 Pawse, of styntyge [read styntynge], or abydyge [read abydynge], pausacio, pausa.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. clviii^v After a dystaunce or pause of tyme, the Archebysshop..stode vp and askyd of the Commons if they wolde assent to the Lordys.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) i. xi. 57 Eftyr the first paws, and that cowrs neir gane,..The goblettis gret with myghty wynys..Thai fill.

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. i. f. 22 It shall doe well heere to make a pause, and tomorrowe..wee will take againe our matter in hand.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. ii. 232 Had'st thou but shooke thy head, or made a pause When I spake darkely.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 315 A Pause of Grief; an interval from Woe.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 94. ⁋5 It cures or supplies all Pauses and Hesitations in Speech.

1796 C. Smith Marchmont I. 60 ‘Ah, my dear love!’ reassumed this admirable woman, after a short pause.

1850 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 3) Prol. 13 Like linnets in the pauses of the wind.

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. iv. 35 There was a pause before the preacher spoke again.

1952 H. E. Bates Love for Lydia i. iii. 36 We went round and round the long marsh twenty or thirty times without a stop except for the pauses when we fell down.

1987 J. Gardam Showing Flag (1990) 49 It was the moment in an English early-summer afternoon when there is a pause for sleep.

b. As a mass noun: intermission, delay, waiting, hesitation.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > [noun]

longingeOE

bideOE

abodec1225

bodea1300

demura1300

dwella1300

litinga1300

delayc1300

delayingc1300

demurrancec1300

but honec1325

without ensoignec1325

abidec1330

dretchingc1330

dwellingc1330

essoinc1330

tarrying1340

litea1350

delaymenta1393

respitea1393

oversettinga1398

delayancea1400

delitea1400

lingeringa1400

stounding?a1400

sunyiea1400

targea1400

train?a1400

deferring14..

dilation14..

dayc1405

prolongingc1425

spacec1430

adjourningc1436

retardationc1437

prolongation?a1439

training1440

adjournment1445

sleuthingc1450

tarry1451

tarriance1460

prorogation1476

oversetc1485

tarriage1488

debaid1489

supersedement1492

superseding1494

off-putting1496

postponing1496

tract1503

dilating1509

sparinga1513

hafting1519

sufferance1523

tracking1524

sticking1525

stay1530

pause1532

protraction1535

tracting1535

protract of time1536

protracting1540

postposition1546

staying1546

procrastination1548

difference1559

surceasing1560

tardation1568

detract1570

detracting1572

tarryment1575

rejourning1578

detraction1579

longness1579

rejournment1579

holding1581

reprieving1583

cunctation1585

retarding1585

retardance1586

temporizing1587

by and by1591

suspensea1592

procrastinatinga1594

tardance1595

linger1597

forslacking1600

morrowing1602

recess1603

deferment1612

attendance1614

put-off1623

adjournal1627

fristing1637

hanging-up1638

retardment1640

dilatoriness1642

suspension1645

stickagea1647

tardidation1647

transtemporation1651

demurragea1656

prolatation1656

prolation1656

moration1658

perendination1658

offput1730

retardure1751

postponement1757

retard1781

traverse1799

tarrowing1832

mañana1845

temporization1888

procrastinativeness1893

deferral1895

traa dy liooar1897

stalling1927

heel-tapping1949

off-put1970

1532 R. Whittington tr. Erasmus De Ciuilitate Morun Puerilium sig. C3 Some without pause styll eate & drinke nat bycause they be an houngred and thurstye.

1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xxiv. f. 210^v Notwithstanding vpon further pause..he promised the execution of hir cursed will.

1584 B. Rich Don Simonides II. sig. Riv^v The whole companie alowing this methodicall contention, after some pawse, were attentiue to heare the second disputation.

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iv. v. 34 Iniury of chance Puts back, leaue taking, iussles roughly by: All time of pause .

1684 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 89 He told me after a great deal of paus and shifting, that [etc.].

1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 178 He cou'd not speak a word..and after some more pause, flew out in the most furious Passion that ever I saw a Man in my Life.

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 244 As we were giving then a few moments of pause to the delectation of the senses,..the impatience natural to the pleasure soon drove us into action.

1813 H. Cowley Albina iii. ii, in Wks. I. 191 No time is there for pause and management, Abrupt the Proof must burst upon your mind.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 3 Aug. 2/1 Here speech is the one thing needful—pause the one thing damned.

1957 J. Kerouac On the Road i. i. 9 Working..without pause eight hours a night.

1991 Nation 25 Feb. 238/3 Go for the yes-or-no answer and banish even the tiniest opportunity for pause and reflection.

Phrases

P1. to take pause: to stop or hesitate, esp. for further or more careful thought. to give (a) pause (usually with to or indirect object): to cause to stop or hesitate, esp. for further or more careful thought; to cause to doubt; frequently in to give (also leave, take, etc.) pause for thought. Also †to put to a pause (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > cease from temporarily [verb (transitive)] > cause to cease temporarily

suspendc1290

pausea1542

intermit1557

to give (a) pause1566

intercidea1641

interpolatea1676

1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall l.415 Leege prynce, take pause a space, and then, my pore demaunde assoyle.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 70 For in that sleepe of death what dreames may come..Must giue vs pause [1623 pawse] .

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 203 These Considerations really put me to a Pause.

1792 S. Rogers Pleasures Mem. i. 102 When the slow dial gave a pause to care.

1821 Lady B. Dacre Pedrarias iv. iii. 185 Oh, that Time wore the driving Tempest's wing, Whose headlong sweep might leave no pause for thought.

1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters x. 271 One of those profound reflections that give one pause in studying these fine pictures of human nature.

1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. xii. 155 Placing a comma between each word, as if to give pause while that word was driven well home to the reader's heart.

1936 A. Tate Reactionary Ess. 180 Yet the very idea ‘America’ must give us pause, for it is almost anything that a determined apologist may wish to represent.

1961 R. Gittings Coll. Poems (1976) 49 It is better To be a wise servant than a brilliant master, And to give a pause to those whom competence blinds.

1987 E. North Worldly Goods (1988) viii. 86 Perhaps..the very act of approaching the vicarage together could be in itself enough to give them pause for thought.

1998 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 6 Oct. b4 We've come to a crossroads where we need to take pause and look at the direction we're headed.

P2. at (also in) pause: temporarily inactive or motionless; not proceeding; hesitating, in suspense. Also (now more usually) at (also in) a pause.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > temporarily inactive [phrase]

at (also in) pause1604

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iii. 42 I stand in pause where I shall first beginne.

?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses viii. 120 All the other Youth that stood at pause, With deafning shouts, gaue them the great applause.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 8. ⁋7 The Air was hushed, the Multitude attentive, and all Nature in a Pause.

1719 C. Cibber Ximena ii. 19 The Shrieks of drowning Honour call! 'Tis sinking, gasping, while I stand in Pause.

1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane iv. 139 The disease Seems at a pause.

1823 M. R. Mitford Julian iv. ii. 55 The mortal sense, at pause 'Twixt life and death, doth drink in a faint echo Of heavenly harpings.

1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters III. iv. i. 10 When I am now called upon to give a definition of this idea, I find myself at a pause.

1868 C. Lofft Ernest (ed. 2) ix. 189 Looking upon ye nearer, I stand in pause A pause of earnest doubt.

1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxx. 115 This unsophisticated girl, with..the suspended attitude of a friendly leopard at pause.

1923 J. Masefield Poems (1946) 615 On the tower-top..they set at pause The golden wind-vane.

1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 3 Mar. a20 The American space program is in a pause while awaiting perfection for manned orbital flight of the massive space shuttle.

2003 Irish News (Nexis) 13 Mar. 44 My..career's at a pause at the minute.

P3. Chiefly Hebrew Grammar. in (the) pause: in the form that a word or vowel takes before any one of the chief stops. Similarly into pause, out of pause. Cf. pausal adj.

ΚΠ

1720 J. Henley Compl. Linguist vi. v. 35 The Copulative before Monosyllables and Penacutes in a Pause, [etc.].

1874 A. B. Davidson Introd. Hebrew Gram. (1880) 27 In general only the two greatest Prose accents (viz. Silluq, marking the end, and 'Athnak, marking the middle of the verse)..throw vowels into pause.

1877 C. T. Ball Merch. Taylors' Hebrew Gram. 76 In the pausal forms an original vowel, shortened to sh^ewa out of pause, is preserved.

1908 J. Hertel Panchatantra p. xxxviii Certain sounds are forbidden in the pause: so c, j, y, r.

1962 A. B. Davidson & J. Mauchline Introd. Hebrew Gram. (ed. 25) 52 Pausal forms..are characterized by..movement of the tone within the word in pause.

2006 R. R. Ellis Learning to read Biblical Hebrew xvi. 168 A word that is marked with silluq or atnah (as well as certain other accents) is a word in ‘pause’.

Compounds

C1.

pause-filler n.

ΚΠ

1967 A. Laski Seven Other Years i. 13 It sounded like the kind of remark which is made as a pause-filler.

1991 ICAME Jrnl. 15 13 It is not only in initial position that informationally and semantically light adverbials can be thrown in as ‘pause-fillers’.

pause-marker n.

ΚΠ

1953 G. A. Kennedy ZH Guide viii. 89 (heading) YAA..pause-marker.

1956 Kenyon Rev. 18 433 The lesser pause-markers: comma, colon and semi-colon.

1996 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 116 657/1 The standard prosodic pattern of the poem is hexametric, with the pause-marker..at the end of the first line of the couplet.

pause marking n.

ΚΠ

1880 D. Masson Life Milton VI. 517 The pointing is a mere empirical compromise, for the reader's convenience, between pause-marking and clause-marking.

2002 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant (Nexis) 4 July a9 Fliegelman writes that Jefferson included pause markings to guide the reading.

pause-pattern n.

ΚΠ

1965 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Nov. 1070/3 New sentence-shapes, new pause-patterns.

1999 Independent (Nexis) 24 Jan. 13 [In the poem] a changing pause-pattern charts the movement of thought from that simple wish to pick a herb, to disease, pain and ageing, as the holiday ends in salmonella.

pause rhythm n.

ΚΠ

1902 E. W. Scripture Elements Exper. Phonetics xxxvi. 517 A tone may be sounded for a definite time at definite intervals. The result is a ‘rhythm of sound and pause,’ or..a ‘pause rhythm’.

pause-substitute n.

ΚΠ

1964 J. L. M. Trim in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 375 Major tone-groups..are followed by a pause, or pause-substitute.

pause-giving adj.

ΚΠ

1887 A. Seth Hegelianism & Personality ii. 74 [T. H.] Green..constantly assumes a stream of sensations as the material upon which the pause-giving and rationally constitutive activity of thought is exercised.

1963 Economist 9 Nov. 577/1 Papers with..pause-giving titles.

2003 Townsville (Queensland) Bull. (Nexis) 29 Mar. 42 The hijinks on the Highlands revolves around some rather pause-giving antics.

pause-linking adj.

ΚΠ

1970 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 15 112 Thus, if the pause-linking rule was solely phonological we would have no way of determining whether or not it applies to these phrases.

C2.

pause-pitch n. Linguistics the pitch pattern which characteristically precedes a pause in speech.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [noun] > intonation > pitch > rising or falling

cadence1598

rise1626

pause-pitch1933

question-pitch1933

rise-fall1933

downdrifta1949

downturn1955

upturn1964

1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. vii. 115 We must recognize pause-pitch or suspension-pitch [,], which consists of a rise of pitch before a pause within a sentence. It is used..to show that the sentence is not ending at a point where otherwise the phrasal form would make the end of a sentence possible: I was waiting there [,] when in came the man.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pausev.¹

Brit.

/pɔːz/, U.S.

/pɔz/,

/pɑz/

Forms: late Middle English–1600s pawse, late Middle English– pause; Scottish pre-1700 paws, pre-1700 1700s– pause.

Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by conversion. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: pause n.; Latin pausare.

Etymology: Either < pause n., or < post-classical Latin pausare to cease, rest (Vetus Latina: see note). Compare Italian pausare (early 12th cent.), Old Occitan pausar (13th cent. in sense ‘to stop or rest temporarily in some place’; chiefly in senses corresponding to pose v.¹), Spanish pausar (1428 or earlier in sense ‘to pause in an utterance’; 1062 or earlier in senses corresponding to pose v.¹), Portuguese pausar (14th cent.), Catalan †pausar (c1500), and also Middle Dutch pausen (1488), pauseiren (second half of the 15th cent.; Dutch pauseeren (now rare)), Middle Low German pausēren, pausīren, Middle High German pūsen, German pausieren (1449).For the usual Romance reflexes of post-classical Latin pausare see pose v.¹ Post-classical Latin pausare is < ancient Greek παυσ- , aorist stem of παῦειν to cease, stop, of uncertain origin; compare use of Greek παῦσαι (aorist imperative) ‘stop!’ in Plautus ( Trinummus 187); compare also classical Latin pausa pause n., which probably implies currency of the verb in classical Latin. With the formation compare e.g. classical Latin malaxāre malax v.

a. intransitive. To make a pause; to cease or interrupt an action (esp. movement or speech) for a short time; to stop temporarily; to stop for the purpose of deliberation, or on account of doubt or uncertainty; to hesitate, hold back.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > temporarily cease activity or operation [verb (intransitive)]

restOE

pause1440

breathe1485

interpausea1535

respett1561

to take pausement1599

intermita1604

to turn down a (also the, this, etc.) leaf1633

interspire1647

suspend1650

stop1711

to hang up1845

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 407 Poynton, or pawson, yn redynge, pauso.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. HHHiiii In the psalmody... Begyn all at ones, and ende all at ones, pause all togyther.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cclxxxix^v After he had paused & taken deliberation.

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iv. i. 332 Why doth the Iew pause, take thy forfaiture.

1673 J. Milton Sonnets xviii, in Poems (new ed.) 60 Let Euclid rest and Archimedes pause.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. i. vii. 38 Allworthy paused a Moment, and then proceeded: ‘I have talked thus to you [etc.] .’

1781 W. Cowper Expostulation 605 If Business..Can pause one hour to read a serious rhyme.

1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess iii. 54 Decide not ere you pause.

1897 B. Stoker Dracula xii. 149 For an instant or two we paused at the door to listen, but there was no sound that we could hear.

1934 R. Lynd Both Sides of Road xvi. 105 He feels that he is a man of action only when he is in a hurry, and he does not pause to count the consequences to other people.

1988 K. Amis Difficulties with Girls xiv. 210 She hurried over, then paused to get her breath.

†b. transitive (reflexive). To hold oneself back; to stay oneself. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > temporarily cease action or operation [verb (reflexive)]

suspendc1290

pause1600

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. iii. 9 We..pawse vs til these rebels..Come vnderneath the yoke of gouernment.

†a. intransitive. To stop or rest temporarily in some place; to remain or continue for a short time in some state. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [verb (intransitive)] > overnight

liec1330

nighta1400

pausec1450

pernoctate1623

to stay over1884

overnight1891

sleep1975

the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > be permanent [verb (intransitive)] > remain, continue > temporarily

pausec1571

c1450 tr. G. Boccaccio De Claris Mulieribus (1924) 1782 (MED) He that hath a longe jorney to do And laboured hath ten or twenti myle, It is expedient, ferther or he go, To pause and stynt and rest hym there a whyle.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 881 There they commoned, and paused that night.

c1571 E. Campion Two Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) i. xv. 60 Whyle the princes and potentates pawsyd in this good mode.

b. intransitive. To stop for a time over a particular word or thing; to dwell, linger. Usually with on, over, upon.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > insistence or persistence > insist or persist [verb (intransitive)] > dwell upon

resta1500

pause1530

to bide upona1616

arresta1631

the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > delay [verb (intransitive)] > on one's way or linger > stop for a time

pause1530

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement Introd. 21 There is no worde of one syllable..that they use to pause upon.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. v. 15 Other Offendors we will pause vpon.

1646 R. Crashaw Musicks Duell in Steps to Temple 104 Tripps From this to that; then..pauses there.

1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. i. 19 He paused a while upon the properest means of providing for me.

1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice II. xiii. 161 After pausing on this point a considerable while, she once more continued to read.

1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xiv. 210 Cicero could pause over no such sublime words of hope, and look to no such future reünion.

1863 M. Oliphant Salem Chapel I. xvii. 304 The eyes..paused at him for a moment.

1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 91 ‘Beautiful?’ said Ignatius Gallaher, pausing on the word and on the flavour of his drink.

1984 T. C. Boyle Budding Prospects (1985) i. iv. 42 I paused over the .22 holes in the kitchen wall.

a. transitive. To cause to stop temporarily, esp. for thought or reflection. rare before 19th cent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > cease from temporarily [verb (transitive)] > cause to cease temporarily

suspendc1290

pausea1542

intermit1557

to give (a) pause1566

intercidea1641

interpolatea1676

a1542 T. Wyatt Psalm xxxii. Prol. 191 in Coll. Poems (1969) Sorowfull David..That..Pausid his plaint, and laid adown his harp.

1818 W. Marshall Rep. Board Agric. iv. 320 I have often been paused by the Board's Reports.

1908 A. S. M. Hutchinson Once aboard Lugger ii. ii. 101 The strain on his invention paused him.

1995 V. Chandra Red Earth & Pouring Rain (1996) 408 The sight of her daughter and me floating around in her pool didn't pause her for a second.

b. transitive. spec. To stop or suspend the operation of (a device such as a tape recorder, video player, etc., or a computer application) by using a pause control. Also intransitive. Cf. pause n. 4.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > record [verb (transitive)] > use specific facility

preview1957

fast forward1965

pause1973

freeze-frame1983

1965 A. Zuckerman Getting Most from your Tape Recorder ix. 79 You won't accidentally over-shoot and lose program material by ‘de-pausing’ the copying recorder too late.]

1973 G. Boucher et al. Handbk. & Catal. Instructional Media Select. ii. xv. 64 The tape program is automatically paused and will not resume operation until a correct answer is registered.

1973 Amer. Bar Assoc. Jrnl. July 784/1 Record, pause, rewind, listen with this easy-to-use, thumb control.

1981 T. Hogan Osborne CP/M User Guide ii. 49 CP/M can pause the video display screen.

2000 Computer Currents (Nexis) 22 Feb. 82 I reluctantly paused the DVD, got up, walked across the room, and answered the telephone.

2003 Sun (Baltimore) (Nexis) 25 July 1 e You're sitting in front of a TV with a Gameboy in your lap, secure in the knowledge that you can pause the action whenever necessary.

Compounds

pause button n. a control for pausing the operation of an electronic device.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > [noun] > playback equipment > specific facility

fast forward1947

edit1953

pause button1957

pause control1957

freeze-frame1961

pause1965

review1969

slo-mo1969

auto-fade1977

cue1978

1957 Tape Recording & Reproduction Mag. Apr. 12/1 The pause button, when depressed, ‘cuts out’ the tape from the heads, but keeps the machine switched on, with the motors running.

1984 What Video? Aug. 27/2 By pressing the Pause button a couple of times it is possible to move the offending noise bar to the top of the TV screen.

2002 Jrnl. Computational & Graphical Statistics (Nexis) 1 Dec. 11 875 A single plot control was provided: a ‘pause button’ in the upper left-hand corner of the display.

pause control n. = pause button n.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > [noun] > playback equipment > specific facility

fast forward1947

edit1953

pause button1957

pause control1957

freeze-frame1961

pause1965

review1969

slo-mo1969

auto-fade1977

cue1978

1957 Tape Recording & Reproduction Mag. Apr. 12/1 An outstanding feature of this deck is a special ‘pause control’.

1984 What Video? Aug. 20/1 They have auto rewind and both still and pause controls.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pause
释义	pausen. Brit. /pɔːz/, U.S. /pɔz/, /pɑz/ Forms: late Middle English–1600s pawse, late Middle English– pause, 1500s paws, 1600s paus, 1600s pauz, 1600s pawze; Scottish pre-1700 paus, pre-1700 pavs, pre-1700 paws, pre-1700 pawss, pre-1700 1700s– pause. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French pause; Latin pausa. Etymology: < Middle French pause break or rest in performing music (1393; French pause ) and its etymon classical Latin pausa cessation, intermission, respite, probably < post-classical Latin pausare pause v.¹, although this is apparently first attested later. The general sense ‘short interruption of an activity’ is apparently first attested later in French (1478–80). Compare Old Occitan, Occitan pausa (a1150), Portuguese pausa (1290), Catalan pausa (c1390), Italian pausa (15th cent.; 1695 or earlier in sense ‘musical sign denoting a pause’), Spanish pausa (1423 in sense 1a; 1377 or earlier in sense ‘space of time’). Compare also Middle Dutch pause (early 16th cent.; Dutch pauze).A derivation of classical Latin pausa < ancient Greek παῦσις cessation ( < παύειν to cease, stop + -σις -sis suffix) is problematic in view of the disparity of form. In sense 4 originally an absolute use of the verbal base form in pause button n., pause control n. at pause v.¹ Compounds. With to give pause (see Phrases 1) compare classical Latin pausam dāre . In Phrases 3 after Hebrew hefseq; in phrase in pause after Hebrew behefseq. I. Technical uses. 1. a. A break or rest made for effect, according to the sense, in speaking, reading, or singing; a similar break made in playing instrumental music; (Prosody) a break occurring at a fixed point in a line of poetry; a caesura; (also) a break of definite length in a verse, having a specific metrical value equivalent to a syllable or number of syllables. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > a speech > pause pausec1426 rest1575 period1587 hyphen1868 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [noun] > caesura caesura?1567 section1584 pause1589 c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 17 (MED) Boþ in cloyster and in quere when þat þai syng and rede, Aperte et distincte, han mynd for ham, þay pray, And kepun her pausus and her poyntis, ellus myȝt þai gete no mede. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 387 Pawse, yn redynge of bokys, periodus. 1561 T. Sternhold et al. Psalmes To Rdr. sig. Bii^v There are also oftentimes in singing, Pauses or Restes, set in songes..Which are signified by litle strikes or lines, or half lines betwene the rules. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. iv. 61 Three maner of pauses... The shortest pause or intermission they called comma... The second they called colon... The third they called periodus, for a complement or full pause. 1684 J. Dryden in Earl of Roscommon Ess. Translated Verse sig. A1 Pauses, cadence, and well vowell'd Words. a1704 J. Locke Paraphrase Epist. St. Paul (1707) Pref. p. xxiii Those Partitions and Pauses which Men educated in the Schools of Rhetoricians usually observe. 1795 W. Mason Ess. Eng. Church Music i. 16 Where Rhythm, Pause, and Accent are peculiarly attended to by the Composer. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. i. 68 As you speak, your words Fill, pause by pause, my own forgotten sleep With shapes. 1882 G. C. Macaulay in 19th Cent. Dec. 908 Passages from this preface have been introduced word for word, or with insignificant changes, into subsequently published poems, being divided stichometrically into lines by the natural pauses of the sentence. 1957 B. Deutsch Poetry Handbk. (1958) 35 The pause in the last foot of the second line is made more emphatic because the words conclude the line and the poem as well. 1986 Toronto Star (Nexis) 28 July d3 This was a performance full of thoughtful pauses and deliberations by one of the major violin talents of the younger generation. 1999 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 23 Nov. e5/1 The singing stays impetuous, full of suspenseful pauses and impassioned crescendos. b. Linguistics. A break marking juncture, sometimes regarded as having phonemic status. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > pause breathing placea1586 breathing part1644 breaking-off1683 pause1933 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. xii. 185 Since the constituents of phrases are free forms, the speaker may separate them by means of pauses. 1952 W. P. Lehmann Proto-Indo-European Phonol. ii. 10 Choice of positional variant in PIE was determined by preceding and following phoneme, group of phonemes, or pause. 1991 Appl. Linguistics 12 346 The measurement of pauses..is achieved through detailed analysis of spectrographic (or equivalent) printouts supplemented by perceptual checks. 2. Music. †a. A character denoting an interval of silence; a rest. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [noun] > rest sign rest?1553 pausec1570 c1570 Art of Music (BL Add. 4911) f. 4, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Paus(e Quhat is ane paus? It is ane figur or ane virgule..hawin for ane sing of tasiturnitie missorit with artificial sylence eftur the quantatie of ewerrie noit till it appropriat. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 9 Phi. What strokes be these? Ma. These be called rests or pauses. 1614 T. Ravenscroft Briefe Disc. Musicke 21 Pauses, or Rests are silent Characters, or an Artificiall omission of the voyce, repraesenting the quantity of the Inward notes. 1636 C. Butler Princ. Musik iv. 37 A Pauz is a mark of rest or silence in a song. 1740 J. Grassineau tr. S. De Brossard Musical Dict. 176 Pause, a character of silence and repose, called by some mute figure. b. The character  or ? placed over or under a note, chord, rest, or silent bar, to indicate that it is to be extended for an unspecified period, or over a bar line to indicate an indefinite interval of silence; = fermata n. Also: the action resulting from this. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [noun] > pause sign pause1614 hold1660 stay1667 fermata1876 1614 T. Ravenscroft Briefe Disc. Musicke 22 And last of all, as necessary to all Harmonies, pertaine certain Signes for diuers vses,..as Pauses. 1676 T. Mace Musick's Monument 209 [It] may be divided..into Several Strains; which you may perceive by the Pauses, and Double Barrs, I have made. 1806 J. W. Callcott Musical Gram. vi. 73 The Pause is placed over a Note to signify that the regular time of the Movement is to be delayed. 1880 J. A. Fuller-Maitland in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 676/1 Pauses at the end of a movement, over a rest, or even over a silent bar, are intended to give a short breathing-space before going on to the next movement. 1903 E. Elgar Let. 1 Nov. in J. N. Moore Elgar & his Publishers (1987) I. 519 Surely there need be no alteration except a pause over the chords. 2001 New Grove Dict. Mus. (Online ed.) at Pause In music for a soloist, a pause in the solo part may indicate that an improvised cadenza is called for. 3. Military. A time for reflection imposed on an aggressor by the use of conventional forces, before resort to defence with nuclear weapons. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > [noun] > use of nuclear weapons against > pause before pause1962 1962 Listener 29 Mar. 549/2 General Norstad..says..that what he needs in order to impose what he calls the pause, in order to identify a threat, in order to relieve himself of the intolerable choice between retreating and using nuclear weapons, is thirty divisions. 1962 Listener 19 Apr. 674/1 The time has come to declare a ‘pause’ on the culture-front. 1966 U. Schwarz & L. Hadik Strategic Terminol. 85 Pause, in the defense of Western Europe, a moment of reflection imposed on any aggressor before the defense resorts to nuclear weapons. 1984 Washington Q. (Nexis) Fall 136 West Europeans are as much repelled by such notions as ‘pauses’ and ‘firebreaks’ as Americans are naturally attracted to them. 4. The facility for suspending or interrupting the operation of an electronic device, such as a tape recorder, video player, piece of computer software, etc. Also concrete: the control itself. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > [noun] > playback equipment > specific facility fast forward1947 edit1953 pause button1957 pause control1957 freeze-frame1961 pause1965 review1969 slo-mo1969 auto-fade1977 cue1978 1965 Which? Nov. 324/1 (table) ‘Pause’ on microphone. 1974 Hist. Teacher 7 545 Other decks..would have offered us added features such as instant pause. 1986 Photographer May 26/1 Play the cassette in the normal way and while listening to it operate the pause on the cassette and video together. 2000 JavaWorld (Nexis) Nov. It can easily be extended to support additional operations such as pause and restart. II. General uses. 5. a. An act of stopping or ceasing for a short time in a course of action; a short interval of silence or inaction, esp. one arising from uncertainty, doubt, or reflection; an intermission; a delay, a hesitation. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > [noun] > a temporary cessation of activity or operation pause1440 trip1584 interpause1595 wem1599 stand1602 vacation1617 interspiration1623 intercisiona1631 interregnum1659 lapse1838 shutdown1857 break1878 slip1898 seventh-inning stretch1915 standoff1918 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 387 Pawse, of styntyge [read styntynge], or abydyge [read abydynge], pausacio, pausa. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. clviii^v After a dystaunce or pause of tyme, the Archebysshop..stode vp and askyd of the Commons if they wolde assent to the Lordys. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) i. xi. 57 Eftyr the first paws, and that cowrs neir gane,..The goblettis gret with myghty wynys..Thai fill. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. i. f. 22 It shall doe well heere to make a pause, and tomorrowe..wee will take againe our matter in hand. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. ii. 232 Had'st thou but shooke thy head, or made a pause When I spake darkely. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 315 A Pause of Grief; an interval from Woe. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 94. ⁋5 It cures or supplies all Pauses and Hesitations in Speech. 1796 C. Smith Marchmont I. 60 ‘Ah, my dear love!’ reassumed this admirable woman, after a short pause. 1850 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 3) Prol. 13 Like linnets in the pauses of the wind. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. iv. 35 There was a pause before the preacher spoke again. 1952 H. E. Bates Love for Lydia i. iii. 36 We went round and round the long marsh twenty or thirty times without a stop except for the pauses when we fell down. 1987 J. Gardam Showing Flag (1990) 49 It was the moment in an English early-summer afternoon when there is a pause for sleep. b. As a mass noun: intermission, delay, waiting, hesitation. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > [noun] longingeOE bideOE abodec1225 bodea1300 demura1300 dwella1300 litinga1300 delayc1300 delayingc1300 demurrancec1300 but honec1325 without ensoignec1325 abidec1330 dretchingc1330 dwellingc1330 essoinc1330 tarrying1340 litea1350 delaymenta1393 respitea1393 oversettinga1398 delayancea1400 delitea1400 lingeringa1400 stounding?a1400 sunyiea1400 targea1400 train?a1400 deferring14.. dilation14.. dayc1405 prolongingc1425 spacec1430 adjourningc1436 retardationc1437 prolongation?a1439 training1440 adjournment1445 sleuthingc1450 tarry1451 tarriance1460 prorogation1476 oversetc1485 tarriage1488 debaid1489 supersedement1492 superseding1494 off-putting1496 postponing1496 tract1503 dilating1509 sparinga1513 hafting1519 sufferance1523 tracking1524 sticking1525 stay1530 pause1532 protraction1535 tracting1535 protract of time1536 protracting1540 postposition1546 staying1546 procrastination1548 difference1559 surceasing1560 tardation1568 detract1570 detracting1572 tarryment1575 rejourning1578 detraction1579 longness1579 rejournment1579 holding1581 reprieving1583 cunctation1585 retarding1585 retardance1586 temporizing1587 by and by1591 suspensea1592 procrastinatinga1594 tardance1595 linger1597 forslacking1600 morrowing1602 recess1603 deferment1612 attendance1614 put-off1623 adjournal1627 fristing1637 hanging-up1638 retardment1640 dilatoriness1642 suspension1645 stickagea1647 tardidation1647 transtemporation1651 demurragea1656 prolatation1656 prolation1656 moration1658 perendination1658 offput1730 retardure1751 postponement1757 retard1781 traverse1799 tarrowing1832 mañana1845 temporization1888 procrastinativeness1893 deferral1895 traa dy liooar1897 stalling1927 heel-tapping1949 off-put1970 1532 R. Whittington tr. Erasmus De Ciuilitate Morun Puerilium sig. C3 Some without pause styll eate & drinke nat bycause they be an houngred and thurstye. 1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xxiv. f. 210^v Notwithstanding vpon further pause..he promised the execution of hir cursed will. 1584 B. Rich Don Simonides II. sig. Riv^v The whole companie alowing this methodicall contention, after some pawse, were attentiue to heare the second disputation. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iv. v. 34 Iniury of chance Puts back, leaue taking, iussles roughly by: All time of pause . View more context for this quotation 1684 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 89 He told me after a great deal of paus and shifting, that [etc.]. 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 178 He cou'd not speak a word..and after some more pause, flew out in the most furious Passion that ever I saw a Man in my Life. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 244 As we were giving then a few moments of pause to the delectation of the senses,..the impatience natural to the pleasure soon drove us into action. 1813 H. Cowley Albina iii. ii, in Wks. I. 191 No time is there for pause and management, Abrupt the Proof must burst upon your mind. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 3 Aug. 2/1 Here speech is the one thing needful—pause the one thing damned. 1957 J. Kerouac On the Road i. i. 9 Working..without pause eight hours a night. 1991 Nation 25 Feb. 238/3 Go for the yes-or-no answer and banish even the tiniest opportunity for pause and reflection. Phrases P1. to take pause: to stop or hesitate, esp. for further or more careful thought. to give (a) pause (usually with to or indirect object): to cause to stop or hesitate, esp. for further or more careful thought; to cause to doubt; frequently in to give (also leave, take, etc.) pause for thought. Also †to put to a pause (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > cease from temporarily [verb (transitive)] > cause to cease temporarily suspendc1290 pausea1542 intermit1557 to give (a) pause1566 intercidea1641 interpolatea1676 1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall l.415 Leege prynce, take pause a space, and then, my pore demaunde assoyle. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 70 For in that sleepe of death what dreames may come..Must giue vs pause [1623 pawse] . View more context for this quotation 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 203 These Considerations really put me to a Pause. 1792 S. Rogers Pleasures Mem. i. 102 When the slow dial gave a pause to care. 1821 Lady B. Dacre Pedrarias iv. iii. 185 Oh, that Time wore the driving Tempest's wing, Whose headlong sweep might leave no pause for thought. 1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters x. 271 One of those profound reflections that give one pause in studying these fine pictures of human nature. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. xii. 155 Placing a comma between each word, as if to give pause while that word was driven well home to the reader's heart. 1936 A. Tate Reactionary Ess. 180 Yet the very idea ‘America’ must give us pause, for it is almost anything that a determined apologist may wish to represent. 1961 R. Gittings Coll. Poems (1976) 49 It is better To be a wise servant than a brilliant master, And to give a pause to those whom competence blinds. 1987 E. North Worldly Goods (1988) viii. 86 Perhaps..the very act of approaching the vicarage together could be in itself enough to give them pause for thought. 1998 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 6 Oct. b4 We've come to a crossroads where we need to take pause and look at the direction we're headed. P2. at (also in) pause: temporarily inactive or motionless; not proceeding; hesitating, in suspense. Also (now more usually) at (also in) a pause. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > temporarily inactive [phrase] at (also in) pause1604 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iii. 42 I stand in pause where I shall first beginne. View more context for this quotation ?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses viii. 120 All the other Youth that stood at pause, With deafning shouts, gaue them the great applause. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 8. ⁋7 The Air was hushed, the Multitude attentive, and all Nature in a Pause. 1719 C. Cibber Ximena ii. 19 The Shrieks of drowning Honour call! 'Tis sinking, gasping, while I stand in Pause. 1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane iv. 139 The disease Seems at a pause. 1823 M. R. Mitford Julian iv. ii. 55 The mortal sense, at pause 'Twixt life and death, doth drink in a faint echo Of heavenly harpings. 1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters III. iv. i. 10 When I am now called upon to give a definition of this idea, I find myself at a pause. 1868 C. Lofft Ernest (ed. 2) ix. 189 Looking upon ye nearer, I stand in pause A pause of earnest doubt. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxx. 115 This unsophisticated girl, with..the suspended attitude of a friendly leopard at pause. 1923 J. Masefield Poems (1946) 615 On the tower-top..they set at pause The golden wind-vane. 1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 3 Mar. a20 The American space program is in a pause while awaiting perfection for manned orbital flight of the massive space shuttle. 2003 Irish News (Nexis) 13 Mar. 44 My..career's at a pause at the minute. P3. Chiefly Hebrew Grammar. in (the) pause: in the form that a word or vowel takes before any one of the chief stops. Similarly into pause, out of pause. Cf. pausal adj. ΚΠ 1720 J. Henley Compl. Linguist vi. v. 35 The Copulative before Monosyllables and Penacutes in a Pause, [etc.]. 1874 A. B. Davidson Introd. Hebrew Gram. (1880) 27 In general only the two greatest Prose accents (viz. Silluq, marking the end, and 'Athnak, marking the middle of the verse)..throw vowels into pause. 1877 C. T. Ball Merch. Taylors' Hebrew Gram. 76 In the pausal forms an original vowel, shortened to sh^ewa out of pause, is preserved. 1908 J. Hertel Panchatantra p. xxxviii Certain sounds are forbidden in the pause: so c, j, y, r. 1962 A. B. Davidson & J. Mauchline Introd. Hebrew Gram. (ed. 25) 52 Pausal forms..are characterized by..movement of the tone within the word in pause. 2006 R. R. Ellis Learning to read Biblical Hebrew xvi. 168 A word that is marked with silluq or atnah (as well as certain other accents) is a word in ‘pause’. Compounds C1. a. pause-filler n. ΚΠ 1967 A. Laski Seven Other Years i. 13 It sounded like the kind of remark which is made as a pause-filler. 1991 ICAME Jrnl. 15 13 It is not only in initial position that informationally and semantically light adverbials can be thrown in as ‘pause-fillers’. pause-marker n. ΚΠ 1953 G. A. Kennedy ZH Guide viii. 89 (heading) YAA..pause-marker. 1956 Kenyon Rev. 18 433 The lesser pause-markers: comma, colon and semi-colon. 1996 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 116 657/1 The standard prosodic pattern of the poem is hexametric, with the pause-marker..at the end of the first line of the couplet. pause marking n. ΚΠ 1880 D. Masson Life Milton VI. 517 The pointing is a mere empirical compromise, for the reader's convenience, between pause-marking and clause-marking. 2002 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant (Nexis) 4 July a9 Fliegelman writes that Jefferson included pause markings to guide the reading. pause-pattern n. ΚΠ 1965 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Nov. 1070/3 New sentence-shapes, new pause-patterns. 1999 Independent (Nexis) 24 Jan. 13 [In the poem] a changing pause-pattern charts the movement of thought from that simple wish to pick a herb, to disease, pain and ageing, as the holiday ends in salmonella. pause rhythm n. ΚΠ 1902 E. W. Scripture Elements Exper. Phonetics xxxvi. 517 A tone may be sounded for a definite time at definite intervals. The result is a ‘rhythm of sound and pause,’ or..a ‘pause rhythm’. pause-substitute n. ΚΠ 1964 J. L. M. Trim in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 375 Major tone-groups..are followed by a pause, or pause-substitute. b. pause-giving adj. ΚΠ 1887 A. Seth Hegelianism & Personality ii. 74 [T. H.] Green..constantly assumes a stream of sensations as the material upon which the pause-giving and rationally constitutive activity of thought is exercised. 1963 Economist 9 Nov. 577/1 Papers with..pause-giving titles. 2003 Townsville (Queensland) Bull. (Nexis) 29 Mar. 42 The hijinks on the Highlands revolves around some rather pause-giving antics. pause-linking adj. ΚΠ 1970 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 15 112 Thus, if the pause-linking rule was solely phonological we would have no way of determining whether or not it applies to these phrases. C2. pause-pitch n. Linguistics the pitch pattern which characteristically precedes a pause in speech. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [noun] > intonation > pitch > rising or falling cadence1598 rise1626 pause-pitch1933 question-pitch1933 rise-fall1933 downdrifta1949 downturn1955 upturn1964 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. vii. 115 We must recognize pause-pitch or suspension-pitch [,], which consists of a rise of pitch before a pause within a sentence. It is used..to show that the sentence is not ending at a point where otherwise the phrasal form would make the end of a sentence possible: I was waiting there [,] when in came the man. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pausev.¹ Brit. /pɔːz/, U.S. /pɔz/, /pɑz/ Forms: late Middle English–1600s pawse, late Middle English– pause; Scottish pre-1700 paws, pre-1700 1700s– pause. Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by conversion. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: pause n.; Latin pausare. Etymology: Either < pause n., or < post-classical Latin pausare to cease, rest (Vetus Latina: see note). Compare Italian pausare (early 12th cent.), Old Occitan pausar (13th cent. in sense ‘to stop or rest temporarily in some place’; chiefly in senses corresponding to pose v.¹), Spanish pausar (1428 or earlier in sense ‘to pause in an utterance’; 1062 or earlier in senses corresponding to pose v.¹), Portuguese pausar (14th cent.), Catalan †pausar (c1500), and also Middle Dutch pausen (1488), pauseiren (second half of the 15th cent.; Dutch pauseeren (now rare)), Middle Low German pausēren, pausīren, Middle High German pūsen, German pausieren (1449).For the usual Romance reflexes of post-classical Latin pausare see pose v.¹ Post-classical Latin pausare is < ancient Greek παυσ- , aorist stem of παῦειν to cease, stop, of uncertain origin; compare use of Greek παῦσαι (aorist imperative) ‘stop!’ in Plautus ( Trinummus 187); compare also classical Latin pausa pause n., which probably implies currency of the verb in classical Latin. With the formation compare e.g. classical Latin malaxāre malax v. 1. a. intransitive. To make a pause; to cease or interrupt an action (esp. movement or speech) for a short time; to stop temporarily; to stop for the purpose of deliberation, or on account of doubt or uncertainty; to hesitate, hold back. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > temporarily cease activity or operation [verb (intransitive)] restOE pause1440 breathe1485 interpausea1535 respett1561 to take pausement1599 intermita1604 to turn down a (also the, this, etc.) leaf1633 interspire1647 suspend1650 stop1711 to hang up1845 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 407 Poynton, or pawson, yn redynge, pauso. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. HHHiiii In the psalmody... Begyn all at ones, and ende all at ones, pause all togyther. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cclxxxix^v After he had paused & taken deliberation. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iv. i. 332 Why doth the Iew pause, take thy forfaiture. View more context for this quotation 1673 J. Milton Sonnets xviii, in Poems (new ed.) 60 Let Euclid rest and Archimedes pause. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. i. vii. 38 Allworthy paused a Moment, and then proceeded: ‘I have talked thus to you [etc.] .’ View more context for this quotation 1781 W. Cowper Expostulation 605 If Business..Can pause one hour to read a serious rhyme. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess iii. 54 Decide not ere you pause. 1897 B. Stoker Dracula xii. 149 For an instant or two we paused at the door to listen, but there was no sound that we could hear. 1934 R. Lynd Both Sides of Road xvi. 105 He feels that he is a man of action only when he is in a hurry, and he does not pause to count the consequences to other people. 1988 K. Amis Difficulties with Girls xiv. 210 She hurried over, then paused to get her breath. †b. transitive (reflexive). To hold oneself back; to stay oneself. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > temporarily cease action or operation [verb (reflexive)] suspendc1290 pause1600 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. iii. 9 We..pawse vs til these rebels..Come vnderneath the yoke of gouernment. View more context for this quotation 2. †a. intransitive. To stop or rest temporarily in some place; to remain or continue for a short time in some state. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [verb (intransitive)] > overnight liec1330 nighta1400 pausec1450 pernoctate1623 to stay over1884 overnight1891 sleep1975 the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > be permanent [verb (intransitive)] > remain, continue > temporarily pausec1571 c1450 tr. G. Boccaccio De Claris Mulieribus (1924) 1782 (MED) He that hath a longe jorney to do And laboured hath ten or twenti myle, It is expedient, ferther or he go, To pause and stynt and rest hym there a whyle. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 881 There they commoned, and paused that night. c1571 E. Campion Two Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) i. xv. 60 Whyle the princes and potentates pawsyd in this good mode. b. intransitive. To stop for a time over a particular word or thing; to dwell, linger. Usually with on, over, upon. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > insistence or persistence > insist or persist [verb (intransitive)] > dwell upon resta1500 pause1530 to bide upona1616 arresta1631 the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > delay [verb (intransitive)] > on one's way or linger > stop for a time pause1530 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement Introd. 21 There is no worde of one syllable..that they use to pause upon. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. v. 15 Other Offendors we will pause vpon. View more context for this quotation 1646 R. Crashaw Musicks Duell in Steps to Temple 104 Tripps From this to that; then..pauses there. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. i. 19 He paused a while upon the properest means of providing for me. 1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice II. xiii. 161 After pausing on this point a considerable while, she once more continued to read. View more context for this quotation 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xiv. 210 Cicero could pause over no such sublime words of hope, and look to no such future reünion. 1863 M. Oliphant Salem Chapel I. xvii. 304 The eyes..paused at him for a moment. 1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 91 ‘Beautiful?’ said Ignatius Gallaher, pausing on the word and on the flavour of his drink. 1984 T. C. Boyle Budding Prospects (1985) i. iv. 42 I paused over the .22 holes in the kitchen wall. 3. a. transitive. To cause to stop temporarily, esp. for thought or reflection. rare before 19th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > cease from temporarily [verb (transitive)] > cause to cease temporarily suspendc1290 pausea1542 intermit1557 to give (a) pause1566 intercidea1641 interpolatea1676 a1542 T. Wyatt Psalm xxxii. Prol. 191 in Coll. Poems (1969) Sorowfull David..That..Pausid his plaint, and laid adown his harp. 1818 W. Marshall Rep. Board Agric. iv. 320 I have often been paused by the Board's Reports. 1908 A. S. M. Hutchinson Once aboard Lugger ii. ii. 101 The strain on his invention paused him. 1995 V. Chandra Red Earth & Pouring Rain (1996) 408 The sight of her daughter and me floating around in her pool didn't pause her for a second. b. transitive. spec. To stop or suspend the operation of (a device such as a tape recorder, video player, etc., or a computer application) by using a pause control. Also intransitive. Cf. pause n. 4. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > record [verb (transitive)] > use specific facility preview1957 fast forward1965 pause1973 freeze-frame1983 1965 A. Zuckerman Getting Most from your Tape Recorder ix. 79 You won't accidentally over-shoot and lose program material by ‘de-pausing’ the copying recorder too late.] 1973 G. Boucher et al. Handbk. & Catal. Instructional Media Select. ii. xv. 64 The tape program is automatically paused and will not resume operation until a correct answer is registered. 1973 Amer. Bar Assoc. Jrnl. July 784/1 Record, pause, rewind, listen with this easy-to-use, thumb control. 1981 T. Hogan Osborne CP/M User Guide ii. 49 CP/M can pause the video display screen. 2000 Computer Currents (Nexis) 22 Feb. 82 I reluctantly paused the DVD, got up, walked across the room, and answered the telephone. 2003 Sun (Baltimore) (Nexis) 25 July 1 e You're sitting in front of a TV with a Gameboy in your lap, secure in the knowledge that you can pause the action whenever necessary. Compounds pause button n. a control for pausing the operation of an electronic device. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > [noun] > playback equipment > specific facility fast forward1947 edit1953 pause button1957 pause control1957 freeze-frame1961 pause1965 review1969 slo-mo1969 auto-fade1977 cue1978 1957 Tape Recording & Reproduction Mag. Apr. 12/1 The pause button, when depressed, ‘cuts out’ the tape from the heads, but keeps the machine switched on, with the motors running. 1984 What Video? Aug. 27/2 By pressing the Pause button a couple of times it is possible to move the offending noise bar to the top of the TV screen. 2002 Jrnl. Computational & Graphical Statistics (Nexis) 1 Dec. 11 875 A single plot control was provided: a ‘pause button’ in the upper left-hand corner of the display. pause control n. = pause button n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > [noun] > playback equipment > specific facility fast forward1947 edit1953 pause button1957 pause control1957 freeze-frame1961 pause1965 review1969 slo-mo1969 auto-fade1977 cue1978 1957 Tape Recording & Reproduction Mag. Apr. 12/1 An outstanding feature of this deck is a special ‘pause control’. 1984 What Video? Aug. 20/1 They have auto rewind and both still and pause controls. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pausev.² Brit. /pɔːz/, U.S. /pɔz/, /pɑz/ Forms: 1600s 1800s– pause, 1800s– pawse (Yorkshire), 1800s– pawze (Yorkshire), 1800s– poise (Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire). Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown. English regional (chiefly Yorkshire). transitive. To kick; to repulse with a kick. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (transitive)] > with the foot > kick smitec1330 frontc1400 punch1449 kick1598 calcitrate1623 bunch1647 pause1673 pote1673 purr1847 boot1877 turf1888 root1890 1673 O. Heywood Autobiogr., Diaries, Anecd. & Event Bks. (1883) III. 204 He..paused her with his feet. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Pause, to kick with the foot. 1847 E. Brontë Wuthering Heights I. iii. 43 Heathcliff's pawsed his fit intuh t'first part uh ‘T' Brooad Way to Destruction!’ 1878 Yorkshireman Aug. in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 438/2 Pawze him aht o' t'field. 1924 J. H. Wilkinson Leeds Dial. Gloss. & Lore 164 He pawsed mi shin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1426v.¹1440v.²1673
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