Pause

1. n. A hold. See 4th Hold, 7.
2. n. A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
3. n. Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.
4. n. In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts.
5. n. In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach the pupil to mind the pauses.
6. n. A break or paragraph in writing.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.