Onhold vs Pause - What's the difference?
onhold | pause |
(rare) To hold on (to).
*1882 , Keningale Robert Cook, The king of Kent :
*2008 , An Apple A day:
(rare) To hold on.
*1919 , Middlesbrough (England). Education Committee, Proceedings :
To interrupt an activity and wait.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=15 To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.
(obsolete) To consider; to reflect.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
* , chapter=23
, title= A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
Hesitation; suspense; doubt.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark.
A break or paragraph in writing.
* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
(as direct object) take pause': hesitate; give ' pause : cause to hesitate
As verbs the difference between onhold and pause
is that onhold is to hold on (to) while pause is to interrupt an activity and wait.As a noun pause is
a temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.onhold
English
Verb
- She leaped and trembled; still onheld his gripe, And gnawed her waning life.
- Because of economic downturn, I onhold my dream first and use my lovely office's notebook IBM Thinkpad T60P as my best friend.
- Resolved, That the Minutes of the Meeting of the Secondary Committee onheld 8 July, 1918, be and they are hereby confirmed.
Derived terms
* (l)pause
English
Verb
(paus)- When telling the scary story, he paused for effect.
- Tarry, pause a day or two.
- pausing while thus to herself she mused
citation, passage=She paused and took a defiant breath. ‘If you don't believe me, I can't help it. But I'm not a liar.’ ¶ ‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough!
- Why doth the Jew pause ? Take thy forfeiture.
- to pause a song, a video, or a computer game
- Take time to pause .
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.}}
- I stand in pause where I shall first begin.
- He writes with warmth, which usually neglects method, and those partitions and pauses which men educated in schools observe.