Hesitation

Pause may refer to a rest, hesitation, or temporary stop.

Examples:

  • Fermata, a musical pause of indefinite duration
  • Pause key, the Pause/Break key on computer keyboards
  • Stop playing audio or video, with the possibility to continue (in the case of video: with a still image)
  • pause (DOS command)

Pause may also refer to:

  • Pause (album), a 2001 album by Four Tet
  • "Pause" (Run-D.M.C. song), a 1990 song by Run-D.M.C. on their album Back from Hell Pricks
  • "Pause" (song), a song by Jay Dee (a.k.a. J Dilla)
  • Pause (film), a 1964 film by Andy Warhol
  • Pause (slang), as a slang term in hiphop music as a synonym for no homo
  • "Pause", an episode from the third season of The Boondocks
  • Pausa, the end of an utterance in linguistics
  • The Perl Authors Upload Server (PAUSE), an interface for uploading Perl modules to the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
  • PAUSE, a x86 instruction introduced to the Pentium 4 family and intended to optimize execution of spinlocks. Its operation code is chosen to be backward compatible with the earliest members of the x86 family.

Famous quotes containing the word hesitation:

    “I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And ... if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.”
    —Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

    “Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.”
    —Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)