Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - pause
Pause
pause
n. & v. --n. 1 an interval of inaction, esp. when due to hesitation; a temporary stop. 2 a break in speaking or reading; a silence. 3 Mus. a mark (3! 3!) over a note or rest that is to be lengthened by an unspecified amount. --v.intr. 1 make a pause; wait. 2 (usu. foll. by upon) linger over (a word etc.). Phrases and idioms give pause to cause (a person) to hesitate. Etymology: ME f. OF pause or L pausa f. Gk pausis f. pauo stop
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Latin pausa, from Greek pausis, from pauein to stop Date: 15th century a temporary stop, 2. a break in a verse, a brief suspension of the voice to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts, temporary inaction especially as caused by uncertainty ; hesitation, 4. the sign denoting a fermata, a mark (as a period or comma) used in writing or printing to indicate or correspond to a ~ of voice, a reason or cause for pausing (as to reconsider) , a function of an electronic device that ~s a recording, II. verb (~d; pausing) Date: 15th century intransitive verb to stop temporarily, to linger for a time, transitive verb to cause to ~ ; stop ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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