Pause vs Pauce - What's the difference?
pause | pauce |
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
Of or pertaining to paucity; being scarce or insufficient.
* 1966. T?hoku Daigaku. Science Reports , v.37-38 1965-1967, T?hoku University: 1966, Page 208,
* 1983. Academy of Political Science (U.S.) ''Political Science Quarterly; New York, v.98 (1983-84), Page 521,
* 1997. Tony Whitten, Roehayat Emon Soeriaatmadja, Suraya A. Afiff, Surya Affif. The Ecology of Java and Bali , Oxford University Press: 1997, Page 600,
As a verb 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.As an adjective pauce is
of or pertaining to paucity; being scarce or insufficient.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.
pauce
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The documentation was very pauce .
- ...although the foraminiferal content is pauce .
- Comparable information for the Soviets is pauce ; but the authors' observations are stimulating and plausible.
- So, although it is often asserted that monocultures lead to increased risks of disease and pest attack, the evidence is pauce .