Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Määritelmät
Verbi
- (intransitive) To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.
- (transitive) To stop (an activity) for a while.
- (intransitive) To interrupt an activity and wait.
- (intransitive) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
- (transitive) To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To consider; to reflect.
Substantiivi
- A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
- A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
- (figurative) Hesitation; suspense; doubt.
- In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark.
- A break or paragraph in writing.
- (music) A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.
- Alternative letter-case form of Pause (“a button that pauses or resumes something”).
Huudahdus
- (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.
Esimerkit
- When telling the scary story, he paused for effect.
- Tarry, pause a day or two.
- pausing while thus to herself she mused
- She paused and took a defiant breath. ‘If you don't believe me, I can't help it. But I'm not a liar.’ ¶ ‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough![...]What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’
- Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture.
- to pause a song, a video, or a computer game
- Take time to pause.
- If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.
- Teach the pupil to mind the pauses.
- He writes with warmth, which usually neglects method, and those partitions and pauses which men educated in schools observe.
- I stand in pause where I shall first begin.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | paused |
| Imperfekti | paused |
| Partisiipin preesens | pausing |
| Monikko | pauses |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | pauses |