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{
"term": "pause",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "pause",
"heSheIt": "pauses"
},
"pastSimple": "paused",
"pastParticiple": "paused",
"ingForm": "pausing"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to stop talking or doing something for a short time before continuing",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Anita paused for a moment, then said: ‘All right’."
},
{
"text": "The woman spoke almost without **pausing for breath** *(= very quickly)*."
},
{
"text": "I paused at the door and looked back."
},
{
"text": "**Pausing only to** pull on a sweater, he ran out of the house."
},
{
"text": "Just pause to think before giving me your answer."
},
{
"text": "She paused a moment and then walked away."
},
{
"text": "She paused occasionally to smell the flowers."
},
{
"text": "Without pausing to knock, she opened the door."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["briefly", "(for) a moment", "momentarily"],
"phrases": [
"pause for breath",
"pause for thought",
"pause only long enough to do something"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to stop a video, etc. for a short time using the pause button",
"sensetop": "pause something",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She paused the movie to go and answer the door."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/pɔːz/",
"audio": "pa/pause/pause__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈpɔːzɪz/",
"audio": "pa/pause/pauses__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/pɔːzd/",
"audio": "pa/pause/paused__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈpɔːzɪŋ/",
"audio": "pa/pause/pausing__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/pɔːz/",
"audio": "pa/pause/pause__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈpɔːzɪz/",
"audio": "pa/pause/pauses__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/pɔːzd/",
"audio": "pa/pause/paused__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈpɔːzɪŋ/",
"audio": "pa/pause/pausing__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin pausa, from Greek pausis, from pausein ‘to stop’."
}