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   Pause

   /pôz/

   

   verb

   • 1. interrupt action or speech briefly: "she paused, at a loss for words"
   • ▪ temporarily interrupt the operation of (a videotape, audiotape, or computer program): "she had paused a tape on the VCR"

   noun

   • 1. a temporary stop in action or speech: "she dropped me outside during a brief pause in the rain"
   • ▪ a mark over a note or rest that is to be lengthened by an unspecified amount; a fermata.
   • ▪ a control allowing the temporary interruption of an electronic (or mechanical) process, especially video or audio recording or reproduction.

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

   Scrabble Points: 7

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