Topic: MUSIC
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| Date: | 1400-1500 |
| Language: | Latin |
| Origin: | pausa, from Greek pausis, from pauein 'to stop' |
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pause2 [countable]
1 a short time during which someone stops speaking or doing something before starting again : 
There was a pause while Alice changed the tape.
There was a pause while Alice changed the tape.2 also pause button a control which allows you to stop a CD player, video recorder etc for a short time and start it again
3APM a mark over a musical note, showing that the note is to be played or sung longer than usual
4 to make someone stop and consider carefully what they are doing : an avoidable accident that should give us all pause for thought
give somebody pause (for thought)
an avoidable accident that should give us all pause for thought
