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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pause \Pause\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Paused}; p. pr & vb n. {Pausing}.] [Cf. F. pauser, L. pausare See {Pause}, n., {Pose}.] 1. To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest. ``Tarry, pause a day or two.'' --Shak. Pausing while thus to herself she mused. --Milton. 2. To be intermitted; to cease; as the music pauses. 3. To hesitate; to hold back to delay. [R.] Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture. --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pause \Pause\, n. [F., fr L. pausa. See {Pose}.] 1. A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action interruption; suspension; cessation. 2. Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt. I stand in pause where I shall first begin. --Shak. 3. In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts 4. 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. 5. A break or paragraph in writing. He writes with warmth, which usually neglects method, and those partitions and pauses which men educated in schools observe. --Locke. 6. (Mus.) A hold See 4th {Hold}, 7. Syn: Stop; cessation; suspension. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pause \Pause\, v. t. To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively. [R.] --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hold \Hold\, n. 1. The act of holding, as in or with the hands or arms; the manner of holding, whether firm or loose; seizure; grasp; clasp; gripe; possession; -- often used with the verbs take and lay. Ne have I not twelve pence within mine hold --Chaucer. Thou should'st lay hold upon him --B. Jonson My soul took hold on thee. --Addison. Take fast hold of instruction. --Pror. iv 13. 2. The authority or ground to take or keep claim. The law hath yet another hold on you --Shak. 3. Binding power and influence. Fear . . . by which God and his laws take the surest hold of --Tillotson. 4. Something that may be grasped; means of support. If a man be upon an high place without rails or good hold he is ready to fall. --Bacon. 5. A place of confinement; a prison; confinement; custody; guard. They . . . put them in hold unto the next day --Acts. iv 3. King Richard, he is in the mighty hold Of Bolingbroke. --Shak. 6. A place of security; a fortified place a fort; a castle; -- often called a {stronghold}. --Chaucer. New comers in an ancient hold --Tennyson. 7. (Mus.) A character [thus ?] placed over or under a note or rest, and indicating that it is to be prolonged; -- called also {pause}, and {corona}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Corona \Co*ro"na\ (k?-r?"n?), n.; pl L. {Coron[ae]} (-n?), E. {Coronas} (-n?z). [L. corona crown. See {Crown}.] 1. A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services. 2. (Arch.) The projecting part of a Classic cornice, the under side of which is cut with a recess or channel so as to form a drip. See Illust. of {Column}. 3. (Anat.) The upper surface of some part as of a tooth or the skull; a crown. 4. (Zo["o]l.) The shelly skeleton of a sea urchin. 5. (Astrol.) A peculiar luminous appearance, or aureola, which surrounds the sun, and which is seen only when the sun is totally eclipsed by the moon. 6. (Bot.) a An inner appendage to a petal or a corolla, often forming a special cup, as in the daffodil and jonquil. b Any crownlike appendage at the top of an organ. 7. (Meteorol.) a A circle, usually colored, seen in peculiar states of the atmosphere around and close to a luminous body, as the sun or moon. b A peculiar phase of the {aurora borealis}, formed by the concentration or convergence of luminous beams around the point in the heavens indicated by the direction of the dipping needle. 8. A crown or circlet suspended from the roof or vaulting of churches, to hold tapers lighted on solemn occasions. It is sometimes formed of double or triple circlets, arranged pyramidically. Called also {corona lucis}. --Fairholt. 9. (Mus.) A character [[pause]] called the {pause} or {hold}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: pause n 1: a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something [syn: {intermission}, {break}, {interruption}, {suspension}] 2: temporary inactivity v 1: interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing; "The speaker paused" [syn: {hesitate}] 2: cease an action temporarily; "We pause for station identification"; "let's break for lunch" [syn: {intermit}, {break}]
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