Pause

Pause may refer to a rest, hesitation, or temporary stop.

Examples:

  • Fermata, a musical pause of indefinite duration
  • Pause key, the Pause/Break key on computer keyboards
  • Stop playing audio or video, with the possibility to continue (in the case of video: with a still image)
  • pause (DOS command)

Pause may also refer to:

  • Pause (album), a 2001 album by Four Tet
  • "Pause" (Run-D.M.C. song), a 1990 song by Run-D.M.C. on their album Back from Hell Pricks
  • "Pause" (song), a song by Jay Dee (a.k.a. J Dilla)
  • Pause (film), a 1964 film by Andy Warhol
  • Pause (slang), as a slang term in hiphop music as a synonym for no homo
  • "Pause", an episode from the third season of The Boondocks
  • Pausa, the end of an utterance in linguistics
  • The Perl Authors Upload Server (PAUSE), an interface for uploading Perl modules to the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network

Famous quotes containing the word pause:

    “The dead have been awakened—shall I sleep?
    The world’s at war with tyrants—shall I crouch?
    The harvest’s ripe—and shall I pause to reap?
    I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch;
    Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear,
    Its echo in my heart.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “Here I pause in my sojourning, giving thanks for having come,
    come to trust, at every turning, God will guide me safely home.
    Jesus sought me when a stranger, wandering from the fold of God,
    Came to rescue me from danger, precious presence, precious blood.”
    —Robert Robinson (1735–1790)

    “Hours before dawn we were woken by the quake.
    My house was on a cliff. The thing could take
    Bookloads off shelves, break bottles in a row.
    Then the long pause and then the bigger shake.
    It seemed the best thing to be up and go.”
    —William Empson (1906–1984)