continuation vs pause

continuation

noun
  • The act or state of continuing or being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession 

  • That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on. 

  • A representation of an execution state of a program at a certain point in time, which may be used at a later time to resume the execution of the program from that point. 

  • A successful shot that, despite a foul, is made with a single continuous motion beginning before the foul, and that is therefore valid in certain forms of basketball. 

pause

noun
  • A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation. 

  • A break or paragraph in writing. 

  • Hesitation; suspense; doubt. 

  • A short time for relaxing and doing something else. 

  • In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark. 

  • take pause: hesitate; give pause: cause to hesitate 

  • A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest. 

verb
  • To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort. 

  • To hesitate; to hold back; to delay. 

  • To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point. 

  • To interrupt an activity and wait. 

How often have the words continuation and pause occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )