Repose vs Pause - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between repose and pause

is that repose is rest, sleep while pause is a temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.

As verbs the difference between repose and pause

is that repose is to lie at rest; to rest while pause is to interrupt an activity and wait.

repose

English

Noun

(dated) rest, sleep

* 1908 ,

Dark and deserted as it was, the night was full of small noises, song and chatter and rustling, telling of the busy little population who were up and about, plying their trades and vocations through the night till sunshine should fall on them at last and send them off to their well-earned repose .

You would not rob us of our repose , would you, comrades? You would not have us too tired to carry out our duties?

quietness, ease; peace, calmness

* Dante Divine Comedy,Inferno, Canto 10

So may thy lineage find at last repose I thus adjured him

(geology) period between eruptions of a volcano.

Synonyms

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Verb

To lie at rest; to rest.

* Chapman

Within a thicket I reposed .

To lie; to be supported.

trap reposing on sand

To lay, to set down.

* Chapman

But these thy fortunes let us straight repose / In this divine cave's bosom.

* Woodward

Pebbles reposed in those cliffs amongst the earth are left behind.

To place, have, or rest; to set; to entrust.

* Shakespeare

The king reposeth all his confidence in thee.

To reside in something.

(figuratively) To remain or abide restfully without anxiety or alarms.

* I. Taylor

It is upon these that the soul may repose .

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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