Phrase Hound found 9 phrases and 18 compound words that contain pauses. The most common are listed below. Open pauses in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 9
- filled pausesplural of filled pause: Any spoken sound or word used to fill gaps in speech.
- millennial pausesplural of millennial pause: A 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).
- coffee pausesplural of coffee pause: A coffee break.
- general pausesplural of general pause: A deliberate, silent break in a musical piece where the entire ensemble or orchestra temporarily stops playing.
- grand pausesplural of grand pause: A deliberate, silent break in a musical piece where the entire ensemble or orchestra temporarily stops playing.
- normal pausesplural of normal pause: The 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.
- pregnant pausesplural of pregnant pause: A pause that gives the impression that it will be followed by something significant.
- spoken pausesplural of spoken pause: A temporary stop in any form of speech.
- Macready pausesplural of Macready pause: A brief pause during the delivery of a speech in a play, to make the speaking seem more natural.
Compound words 18
- aeropausesplural of aeropause: The region of the atmosphere above which it is not possible for aircraft to fly
- anthropausesplural of anthropause: A global reduction in modern human activity resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
- astropausesplural of astropause: The stellar equivalent of the heliopause
- diapausesplural of diapause: A temporary pause in the growth and development of an organism due to adverse environmental conditions (especially in insects and in the embryos of many of the oviparous species of fish in the order Cyprinodontiformes)
- exopausesplural of exopause: The starting altitude of the exosphere of a celestial body.
- heliopausesplural of heliopause: The boundary of heliosphere where the Sun's solar wind is stopped by the interstellar medium.
- homopausesplural of homopause: The level of an atmosphere below which its constituent molecules are well mixed
- interpausesplural of interpause: An intermission
- magnetopausesplural of magnetopause: The boundary between the Earth's magnetosphere and the sun's plasma.
- menopausesplural of menopause: The 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 …