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# pause

«pause» in Mova's school dictionary: **a short stop or rest** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (pause, pauses); verb (pause, pauses, paused, pausing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A pause is a short stop or rest. To pause means to stop for a little while and then go on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pause/#m1)

2) To pause a video, film or game is to stop it so you can start it again from the same place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pause/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: a short stop that adds time to a task or trip: time = moving time + pauses; no distance is covered during a pause; or the gaps between things. In reading: a comma tells you to pause. In music: a short rest. Phrases: pause for, a short pause, pause button, without a pause, pause for thought.

### examples

- He walked 2 hours with a 15-minute pause. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pause/#x1)
- She paused 3 times for 5 minutes each. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pause/#x2)
- The song has a 10-second pause. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pause/#x3)
- How long was the trip with the pause? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pause/#x4)
- Pause the film while I get a drink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pause/#x5)
- When you read aloud, pause at each full stop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pause/#x6)
- There was a long pause before she answered. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pause/#x7)
- Press the pause button to stop the game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pause/#x8)
- On the hilltop he paused for breath. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pause/#x9)

### note

Homophone: «paws» (animal feet) sounds the same. Adds to the total time: time = moving time + pauses. Trap: no distance is covered during a pause.

### In the corpora

- [Dad pauses it: "They filmed about a hundred hours this week, mate.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/54-reality-tv-what-is-staged-and-what-is-real/5/)
- [A long, long pause… then: «No!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/46-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up/5/)
- [An ellipsis (...) can make the reader pause and wait.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/13/)
- [Three loud blasts on a whistle, then a pause, again and again, is a signal that means you need help.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/47-hiking-and-the-outdoors/11/)
- [Asking the dentist to explain what they will do and agreeing a hand signal to pause makes a visit much less scary.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pause» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pause/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.