Pause

Definition

pause /pↄ:z/ n ၁။ ~ (in sth) တန္႔ျခင္း။ ငံ့ျခင္း။ ဆိုင္းျခင္း။ နားျခင္း။ ရပ္ျခင္း။ There was a long pause before she answered. ❍ He slipped out during a pause in the conversation. ❍ After a short pause,they continued climbing. ❍ The rain fell without pause. ❍ BREAK v ၂။ ( music ) မူလနာရီခ်ိန္ထက္ အနည္းငယ္ပို၍ တီးမႈတ္၊ ရပ္နားရန္ ျပေသာ သေကၤတ။ (.) (ဂီတသေကၤတေပၚ၌ ျပသည္။ ) v ~ (for sth) နားသည္။ ဆိုင္းသည္။ ရပ္သည္။ He paused for a moment before continuing. ❍ speak without pausing for breath (ie very quickly). ❏ give pause to sb; give (sb) pause for thought [ IDM ] အေလးအနက္ စဥ္းစားသင့္သည္။ The institution's social value should give pause to those who seek to destroy it. ❍ The interpretation of the play gave pause for thought.

Examples

1. She paused at the door and then left.
2. [pause to do something] : As we crossed the bridge
3. we paused to look at the boats.
4. [pause for] : He paused for a sip of water before continuing his speech.
5. [pause for breath/thought] : He talked for ten minutes
6. scarcely pausing for breath.