To interrupt an activity and wait.
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.
A break or paragraph in writing.
Hesitation; suspense; doubt.
A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
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.
To await the cessation of, without taking part.
To decline to participate; particularly, to decline to dance.
To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.
To escape a hold while face down by swinging one's legs around into the sitting position.
To be away from the table in the midst of an ongoing game, thus automatically placing one's forced bets and otherwise folding every hand when it is one's time to act.