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Suspend vs Pause - What's the difference?

suspend | pause |

As verbs the difference between suspend and pause

is that suspend is to halt something temporarily 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.

suspend

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To halt something temporarily.
  • The meeting was suspended for lunch.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Suspend your indignation against my brother.
  • * Denham
  • The guard nor fights nor flies; their fate so near / At once suspends their courage and their fear.
  • To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
  • to suspend one's judgement or one's disbelief
    (John Locke)
  • To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
  • to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program
  • To hang freely; underhang.
  • to suspend a ball by a thread
  • To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
  • (obsolete) To make to depend.
  • * Tillotson
  • God hath suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life.
  • To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
  • to suspend''' a student from college; to '''suspend a member of a club
  • * Bishop Sanderson
  • Good men should not be suspended from the exercise of their ministry and deprived of their livelihood for ceremonies which are on all hands acknowledged indifferent.
  • (chemistry) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
  • Antonyms

    * resume

    See also

    suspension, suspenders

    Anagrams

    * * English ergative verbs ----

    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