Phrase Hound found 30 phrases and 38 compound words that contain pause. The most common are listed below. Open pause in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 30
- millennial pauseA brief pause by someone between starting a video recording of themselves and beginning to speak, said to be characteristic of millennials (people born around the 1980s and 1990s).
- filled pauseAny spoken sound or word used to fill gaps in speech.
- press pauseTo temporarily stop a process.
- Engels' pauseThe early phase of the Industrial Revolution, from 1790 to 1840, when British working-class wages stagnated while the per-capita gross domestic product expanded rapidly.
- general pauseSynonym of grand pause: A deliberate, silent break in a musical piece where the entire ensemble or orchestra temporarily stops playing.
- grand pauseA deliberate, silent break in a musical piece where the entire ensemble or orchestra temporarily stops playing.
- pregnant pauseA pause that gives the impression that it will be followed by something significant.
- coffee pauseA coffee break.
- give pauseTo cause (someone) to hesitate and think carefully about something, giving (the person) cause to be unsure or concerned about something.
- hit pauseTo pause (an activity); stop, terminate.
- pause bufferingThe act or process taking place when one pause buffers; the action itself as a technique.
- gave pausesimple past of give pause
- given pausepast participle of give pause: To cause (someone) to hesitate and think carefully about something, giving (the person) cause to be unsure or concerned about something.
- gives pausethird-person singular simple present indicative of give pause: To cause (someone) to hesitate and think carefully about something, giving (the person) cause to be unsure or concerned about something.
- giving pausepresent participle and gerund of give pause
- hits pausethird-person singular simple present indicative of hit pause: To pause (an activity); stop, terminate.
- hitting pausepresent participle and gerund of hit pause
- normal pauseThe four frames of silence between each line of dialog. The name refers to what would be normal pausing between words in the cadence of someone's typical speech pattern.
- pause adAn advertisement displayed when the playback of an online video is paused.
- pause bufferTo rapidly pause and unpause a video game to gain an advantage, such as planning inputs while the game is paused.
- pause markSynonym of enumeration comma: ⟨、⟩, a comma used (chiefly) in Chinese to separate items of a list.
- pressed pausesimple past and past participle of press pause
- pressing pausepresent participle of press pause: To temporarily stop a process.
- spoken pauseA temporary stop in any form of speech.
- presses pausethird-person singular simple present indicative of press pause: To temporarily stop a process.
Compound words 38
- menopauseThe period in a woman's life when menstruation becomes irregular and less frequent before eventually stopping altogether, usually accompanied by a range of unpleasant symptoms; the period spanning perimenopause up to postmenopause.
- tropopauseThe zone of transition between the troposphere and the stratosphere (approximately 13 kilometers). The tropopause normally occurs at an altitude of between 25,000 and 45,000 feet in polar and temperate zones. It occurs at 55,000 feet in …
- andropauseThe male equivalent of the menopause in women; characterized by a decline in libido and overall energy.
- magnetopauseThe boundary between the Earth's magnetosphere and the sun's plasma.
- heliopauseThe boundary of heliosphere where the Sun's solar wind is stopped by the interstellar medium.
- anthropauseA global reduction in modern human activity resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
- stratopauseIn the atmosphere, the boundary between the stratosphere and the mesosphere.
- thermopauseThe boundary between the thermosphere and the exosphere in a planetary atmosphere.
- anthropopauseAlternative form of anthropause: A global reduction in modern human activity resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
- OmegapauseThe second extended hiatus of Homestuck, lasting from July 28, 2015 to March 28, 2016.