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n.
The act of hesitating, or pausing to consider; slowness in deciding; vacillation; also, the manner of one who hesitates.
v. t. & i.
To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer.
a.
Cessation for a time; stop; pause.
n.
One of the places at which ecclesiastical processions pause for the performance of an act of devotion; formerly, the tomb of a martyr, or some similarly consecrated spot; now, especially, one of those representations of the successive stages of our Lord's passion which are often placed round the naves of large churches and by the side of the way leading to sacred edifices or shrines, and which are visited in rotation, stated services being performed at each; -- called also Station of the cross.
n.
A character [thus /] placed over or under a note or rest, and indicating that it is to be prolonged; -- called also pause, and corona.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Pause
n.
One who pauses.
v. i.
To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination; as, he hesitated whether to accept the offer or not; men often hesitate in forming a judgment.
n.
An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked by one or more consonants, the whole produced by a single impulse or utterance. One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only by such an abatement and renewal, or reenforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses. See Guide to Pronunciation, /275.
n.
A word of doubtful meaning, occuring frequently in the Psalms; by some, supposed to signify silence or a pause in the musical performance of the song.
n.
In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach the pupil to mind the pauses.
adv.
With pauses; haltingly.
interj.
An inarticulate nasal sound or murmur, like h'm, uttered by a speaker in pause from embarrassment, affectation, etc.
imp. & p. p.
of Pause
interj.
Ahem; hem; an inarticulate sound uttered in a pause of speech implying doubt and deliberation.
n.
A pause or cessation; suspension.
a.
Of or pertaining to a sentence, or full period; as, a sentential pause.
n.
To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses.
n.
To cease from progress; not to proceed; to stop; to pause; to halt; to remain stationary.
n.
The act of scanning; distinguishing the metrical feet of a verse by emphasis, pauses, or otherwise.
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