Paused vs Stopped - What's the difference?
paused | stopped |
(pause)
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
(stop)
(of a vehicle) Not moving, but not properly parked or berthed;
(more generally) In the state resulting from having stopped.
(of a pipe) Having a stop; being closed at one end.
(of a plant) In a well-pruned state.
(phonetics) Made by complete closure of the organs in the mouth; said of certain consonants such as b'', ''d'', ''p'', and ''t .
As verbs the difference between paused and stopped
is that paused is (pause) while stopped is (stop).As an adjective stopped is
(of a vehicle) not moving, but not properly parked or berthed;.paused
English
Verb
(head)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.
stopped
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- We were stopped for more than three hours!
- ''They passed a stopped car on the side of the road, but realized there was nothing they could do to help.
- A stopped clock is right twice a day.
