Pase vs. Pause — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Pase and Pause
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Definitions
Pase
One of several usually one-handed maneuvers in bullfighting in which the matador presents and moves the cape to attract a close, passing charge of the bull.
Pause
Interrupt action or speech briefly
She paused, at a loss for words
Pase
A maneuver in bullfighting in which a bullfighter tries to get a bull's attention by manipulating his cape.
Pause
A temporary stop in action or speech
She dropped me outside during a brief pause in the rain
He chattered away without pause
Pause
To cease or suspend an action temporarily
She paused in her piano exercises to listen for the baby.
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Pause
To hesitate
He paused before replying.
Pause
To linger; tarry
We paused for a while under the huge oak tree.
Pause
To cease or suspend the action of temporarily; stop for an interim
Paused the printer to add more paper.
Paused the DVD with the remote.
Pause
A break, stop, or rest, often for a calculated purpose or effect
After a dramatic pause, the lawyer finished her summation.
Pause
A delay or suspended reaction, as from uncertainty; a hesitation
After a pause the audience broke into cheers.
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Pause
Delay or hesitation
Spoke without pause for an hour.
Pause
Reason for hesitation
The immensity of the task gives one pause.
Pause
(Music) A sign, such as a fermata, indicating that a note or rest is to be held.
Pause
A break or rest in a line of poetry; a caesura.
Pause
A control mechanism on an audio or video player that halts the playing of a recording and permits playing to be easily resumed from the same point.
Pause
(intransitive) To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.
Pause
(intransitive) To interrupt an activity and wait.
When telling the scary story, he paused for effect.
Pause
(intransitive) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
Pause
(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
Pause
To consider; to reflect.
Pause
A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
Pause
A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
Pause
Hesitation; suspense; doubt.
Pause
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.
Pause
A break or paragraph in writing.
Pause
(music) A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.
Pause
Alternative spelling of Pause
Pause
Take pause: hesitate; give pause: cause to hesitate
Pause
A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
Pause
Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.
I stand in pause where I shall first begin.
Pause
In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts.
Pause
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.
Pause
A break or paragraph in writing.
He writes with warmth, which usually neglects method, and those partitions and pauses which men educated in schools observe.
Pause
A hold. See 4th Hold, 7.
Pause
To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest.
Pausing a while, thus to herself she mused.
Pause
To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses.
Pause
To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture.
Pause
To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect.
Pause
To cause to stop or rest; - used reflexively.
Pause
A time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
Pause
Temporary inactivity
Pause
Interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing;
The speaker paused
Pause
Cease an action temporarily;
We pause for station identification
Let's break for lunch
