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Delaying vs Pausing - What's the difference?

delaying | pausing |

As verbs the difference between delaying and pausing

is that delaying is while pausing is .

As nouns the difference between delaying and pausing

is that delaying is a delay while pausing is a pause.

delaying

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A delay.
  • * 1909 , (Reginald Farrer), In a Yorkshire Garden
    • However, there was no profit in cowardly delayings ; booted and breeched, we sallied forth into a cold, ungenial morning such as you get in Switzerland

    pausing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pause.
  • * (John Lightfoot)
    • And thus did the trumpets sound one-and-twenty blasts every day;