Pause vs Conclude - What's the difference?
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To interrupt an activity and wait.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
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, 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.
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, 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
To end; to come to an end.
To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
* Francis Bacon
To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.
* Shakespeare
To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.
* Tillotson
(obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
* Addison
To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar;generally in the passive.
* Sir M. Hale
(obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.
* Hooker
(obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.
* Bible, Romans xi. 32
* Bible, Gal. iii. 22
(logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)
Pause is a related term of conclude.
As verbs the difference between pause and conclude
is that pause is while conclude is to end; to come to an end.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.
conclude
English
Verb
(conclud)- The story concluded with a moral.
- I will conclude this part with the speech of a counsellor of state.
- to conclude a bargain
- if we conclude a peace
- From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.
- No man can conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him.
- But no frail man, however great or high, / Can be concluded blest before he die.
- The defendant is concluded by his own plea.
- A judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence.
- If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it.
- The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave.
- For God hath concluded all in unbelief.
- The Scripture hath concluded all under sin.