Pause vs Rift - What's the difference?
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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
A chasm or fissure.
A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, page 130:
A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
To form a .
To cleave; to rive; to split.
* Wordsworth
Pause is a related term of rift.
As verbs the difference between pause and rift
is that pause is while rift is to form a or rift can be to belch or rift can be .As a noun rift is
a chasm or fissure.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.
rift
English
(wikipedia rift)Etymology 1
Middle English, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Danish/Norwegian '' 'breach', Old Norse ''rífa 'to tear'. More at rive.Noun
(en noun)- My marriage is in trouble, the fight created a rift between us and we can't reconnect.
- The Grand Canyon is a rift in the Earth's surface, but is smaller than some of the undersea ones.
- I have but one rift in the darkness, that is that I have injured no one save myself by my folly, and that the extent of that folly you will never learn.
Verb
(en verb)- to rift an oak
- To dwell these rifted rocks between.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) rypta.Etymology 3
Verb
(head)- (Spenser)