pausing (verb)

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• pause — /pɔz / (say pawz) noun 1. a temporary stop or rest, especially in speech or action. 2. a cessation proceeding from doubt or uncertainty. 3. delay; hesitation; suspense. 4. a break or rest in speaking or reading as depending on sense, grammatical… …  

• hemmed, hemming — verb 1 (T) to turn under the edge of a piece of material or clothing and stitch it in place 2 hem and haw AmE to keep pausing before saying something, and avoid saying it directly hem sb in phrasal verb (transitive usually passive) 1 to surround… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• pause — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ brief, momentary, short, slight, small ▪ lengthy, long ▪ frequent …   Collocations dictionary

• let — 1 /let/ verb past tense and past participle letpresent participle letting 1 ALLOW (transitive not in passive) a) to allow someone to do something: I wanted to go out but my Dad wouldn t let me. | let sb do sth: She won t let her children play by… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• pause — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Latin pausa, from Greek pausis, from pauein to stop Date: 15th century 1. a temporary stop 2. a. a break in a verse b. a brief suspension of the voice to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• pause — [[t]pɔ͟ːz[/t]] ♦♦♦ pauses, pausing, paused 1) VERB If you pause while you are doing something, you stop for a short period and then continue. It s rather embarrassing, he began, and paused... He had to pause to clear his throat... He worked… …   English dictionary

• breath — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ big, deep, heavy, long, slow ▪ quick, shallow, sharp, short ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• Portuguese grammar — Portuguese grammar, the morphology and syntax of the Portuguese language, is similar to the grammar of most other Romance languages especially Galician and the other languages of Iberian Peninsula. It is a synthetic, fusional language. Nouns,… …   Wikipedia

• continue — [[t]kəntɪ̱njuː[/t]] ♦ continues, continuing, continued 1) VERB If someone or something continues to do something, they keep doing it and do not stop. [V to inf] I hope they continue to fight for equal justice after I m gone... [V to inf] Interest …   English dictionary

• pause — I UK [pɔːz] / US [pɔz] verb Word forms pause : present tense I/you/we/they pause he/she/it pauses present participle pausing past tense paused past participle paused *** 1) [intransitive] to stop moving or stop what you are doing for a short time …   English dictionary

• well — well1 adverb (better, best) 1》 in a good or satisfactory way.     ↘in a condition of prosperity or comfort.     ↘archaic luckily; opportunely: hail fellow, well met. 2》 in a thorough manner.     ↘to a great extent or degree; very much.     ↘Brit …   English new terms dictionary