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Pause vs Hat - What's the difference?

pause | hat |

As verbs the difference between pause and hat

is that pause is while hat is has.

pause

English

Verb

(paus)
  • To interrupt an activity and wait.
  • When telling the scary story, he paused for effect.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • Tarry, pause a day or two.
  • * (John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • pausing while thus to herself she mused
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=15 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!
  • To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • Why doth the Jew pause ? Take thy forfeiture.
  • To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.
  • to pause a song, a video, or a computer game
  • (obsolete) To consider; to reflect.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • Take time to pause .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
  • * , chapter=23
  • , title= 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.}}
  • A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
  • Hesitation; suspense; doubt.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • I stand in pause where I shall first begin.
  • 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)
  • He writes with warmth, which usually neglects method, and those partitions and pauses which men educated in schools observe.
  • (as direct object) take pause': hesitate; give ' pause : cause to hesitate
  • hat

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone or a cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.
  • *
  • *:There was a neat hat -and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
  • (lb) A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
  • *1993 , Susan Loesser, A Most Remarkable Fella: Frank Loesser and the Guys and Dolls in His Life: A Portrait by His Daughter , Hal Leonard Corporation (2000), ISBN 978-0-634-00927-3, p.121:
  • *:My mother was wearing several hats in the early fifties: hostess, scout, wife, and mother.
  • (lb) Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery.
  • # The lottery or draw itself.
  • #:
  • (lb) A hat switch.
  • *2002 , Ernest Pazera, Focus on SDL , p.139:
  • *:The third type of function allows you to check on the state of the joystick's buttons, axes, hats , and balls.
  • *1997 October 6th, “ Patricia V. Lehman]” (user name), [https://groups.google.com/group/rec.antiques/topics?hl=en rec.antiques] (Usenet newsgroup), “[https://groups.google.com/group/rec.antiques/browse_thread/thread/67b2bb8b89588055/8496fc478c032593?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=%22hat%22#8496fc478c032593 Re: Unusual Mark – made in Cechoslovakia]”, [https://groups.google.com/group/rec.antiques/msg/8496fc478c032593?hl=en&dmode=source&output=gplain Message ID: <34390399.BD7@umich.edu>#1/1
  • *:I’lll have to leave it up to antiques experts to tell you when objects were marked that way, but I can tell you it’s called a “hacek” (with the hat' over the “c” and pronounced “hacheck”.) It is used to show that a “c” is pronounced as “ch” and an “s” as “sh.” Sometimes linguists just call it the “' hat .”
  • Hyponyms
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    Derived terms

    {{der3, at the drop of a hat , bowler hat , brick in one's hat , hang one's hat on , hard hat , hatband , hatnote , hat parade , hatpin , hat trick , hatstand , hatter , home is where you hang your hat , put one's name in the hat , take one's hat off to , talk through one's hat , throw one's hat in the ring , pass the hat , under one's hat , wear too many hats , woolly hat}} (-)

    See also

    * take one's hat off to

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