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:

    “This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone to count myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Between the dark and the daylight,
    When the night is beginning to lower,
    Comes a pause in the day’s occupations,
    That is known as the Children’s Hour.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “It is told that some divorcees, elated by their freedom, pause on leaving the courthouse to kiss a front pillar, or even walk to the Truckee to hurl their wedding rings into the river; but boys who recover the rings declare they are of the dime-store variety, and accuse the throwers of fraudulent practices.”
    —Administration in the State of Neva, U.S. public relief program. Nevada: A Guide to the Silver State (The WPA Guide to Nevada)