Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“pausing” is a form of

pause

/pɔːz/ verb, noun, interjection

Forms pauses pausing paused

  1. verb (intransitive) To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.
  2. verb (transitive) To stop (an activity) for a while.
  3. verb (intransitive) To interrupt an activity and wait. “When telling the scary story, he paused for effect.”
  4. verb (intransitive) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
  5. verb (transitive) To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point. “to pause a song, a video, or a computer game”
  6. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To consider; to reflect.
  7. noun A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
  8. noun A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
  9. noun (figurative) Hesitation; suspense; doubt. “to take pause”
  10. noun In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark. “Teach the pupil to mind the pauses.”
  11. noun A break or paragraph in writing.
  12. noun (music) A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.
  13. interjection (African-American Vernacular, slang) Used immediately after a statement to indicate that there was no innuendo or homosexual meaning intended, especially when such a meaning is a reasonable interpretation.
  14. noun A button whose functions are pausing and resuming something, such as a DVD player, a video game or a computer.

Synonyms

hiatus moratorium recess caesura break holiday annual leave day off getaway leave leave of absence time away time off vac vacation vaca vacay vacillation wavering breather intermission interruption suspension hesitate intermit

Antonyms

finish

Etymology

From Middle French pause, from Latin pausa, from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis), from Ancient Greek παύω (paúō, “stop”), of uncertain origin. Doublet of pausa.

From pause.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
  2. noun Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.
  3. verb To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest. "Tarry, pause a day or two." Shak.
  4. verb To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses.

Etymology [F., fr. L. pausa. See Pose.]

Etymology [Cf. F. pauser, L. pausare. See Pause, n., Pose.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “pause”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “pause” (best matches first).

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