pause
part of speech
noun (pause, pauses); verb (pause, pauses, paused, pausing)
meaning for a pupil
1) A pause is a short stop or rest. To pause means to stop for a little while and then go on. tree →
2) To pause a video, film or game is to stop it so you can start it again from the same place. tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths: a short stop that adds time to a task or trip: time = moving time + pauses; no distance is covered during a pause; or the gaps between things. In reading: a comma tells you to pause. In music: a short rest. Phrases: pause for, a short pause, pause button, without a pause, pause for thought.
examples
- He walked 2 hours with a 15-minute pause. tree →
- She paused 3 times for 5 minutes each. tree →
- The song has a 10-second pause. tree →
- How long was the trip with the pause? tree →
- Pause the film while I get a drink. tree →
- When you read aloud, pause at each full stop. tree →
- There was a long pause before she answered. tree →
- Press the pause button to stop the game. tree →
- On the hilltop he paused for breath. tree →
note
Homophone: «paws» (animal feet) sounds the same. Adds to the total time: time = moving time + pauses. Trap: no distance is covered during a pause.
In the corpora
- Dad pauses it: "They filmed about a hundred hours this week, mate.
- A long, long pause… then: «No!
- An ellipsis (...) can make the reader pause and wait.
- Three loud blasts on a whistle, then a pause, again and again, is a signal that means you need help.
- Asking the dentist to explain what they will do and agreeing a hand signal to pause makes a visit much less scary.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «pause» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.