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verb no object

interrupt action or speech briefly:

«…のために/…するために» (動作･話などを)ちょっと止める «for/to do»

e.g. she paused, at a loss for words.

with object temporarily interrupt the operation of (a videotape, audiotape, or computer program):

(CDプレイヤー･ビデオデッキなどの)一時停止ボタンを押す, 再生を一時停止する

e.g. she had paused a tape on the VCR.

a temporary stop in action or speech:

«…の» 小休止, 途切れ; 間（ま）, 中断 «in»

e.g. she dropped me outside during a brief pause in the rain

e.g. the admiral chattered away without pause.

Music a mark over a note or rest that is to be lengthened by an unspecified amount; a fermata.

〘楽〙 フェルマータ〘延長記号; 턐または턑〙

(also pause button) a control allowing the temporary interruption of an electronic (or mechanical) process, especially video or audio recording or reproduction.

(CDプレイヤー･ビデオデッキなどの)一時停止ボタン(pause button)

cause someone to think carefully or hesitate before doing something:

e.g. public outrage has given him pause.

late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin pausa, from Greek pausis, from pausein ‘to stop’.