{
  "dictype": "WikiDicScrap",
  "error": false,
  "code": 200,
  "json": {
    "type": "wiki",
    "pronunciations": {
      "phonetic": [
        "pɔz"
      ],
      "listenurl": [
        {
          "lang": "Audio (US)",
          "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/pause.ogg"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Audio (US)",
          "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/pause.mp3"
        }
      ]
    },
    "meansorg": {
      "etymologies": [
        "From Middle French pause, from Latin pausa, from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis), from Ancient Greek παύω (paúō, “stop”), of uncertain origin. Compare the doublet pausa."
      ],
      "typelist": [
        {
          "name": "Verb",
          "meanlist": [
            {
              "mean": "(intransitive) To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(intransitive) To interrupt an activity and wait.\nWhen telling the scary story, he paused for effect.\nc. 1596–1598 (date written),  William Shakespeare,  “The Merchant of Venice”, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Tarry, pause a day or two.\n1667,  John Milton,  “Book IX”, in  Paradise Lost. , London:    , , →OCLC; republished as  Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:pausing a while thus to herself she mused\n1963,  Margery Allingham,  chapter 15, in  The China Governess‎: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!  What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’\n2020 April 8,  “Network News: COVID-19: Questions and Answers”, in  Rail, page 11:Will this affect HS2 and other major projects? Work at the majority of sites has paused, although some staff may be present to ensure the safety and security of these sites and to make safety assessments."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(intransitive) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.\nc. 1596–1598 (date written),  William Shakespeare,  “The Merchant of Venice”, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(transitive) To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.\nto pause a song, a video, or a computer game"
            },
            {
              "mean": "(intransitive, obsolete) To consider; to reflect.\nc. 1595–1596 (date written),  William Shakespeare,  “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Take time to pause."
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "Noun",
          "meanlist": [
            {
              "mean": "A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.\nSynonyms: hiatus, moratorium, recess; see also Thesaurus:pause\n1918,  W B Maxwell,  chapter XLV, in  The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 374: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."
            },
            {
              "mean": "A short time for relaxing and doing something else.\nSynonyms: break, holiday, recess; see also Thesaurus:vacation"
            },
            {
              "mean": "Hesitation; suspense; doubt.\nSynonyms: vacillation, wavering\nc. 1599–1602 (date written),  William Shakespeare,  The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke:  (Second Quarto), London:    I R for N L , published 1604, →OCLC, :And like a man to double buſsines bound, / I ſtand in pauſe where I ſhall firſt beginne,"
            },
            {
              "mean": "In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark.\nTeach the pupil to mind the pauses."
            },
            {
              "mean": "A break or paragraph in writing.\na. 1705,  ,  “]”, in  A Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of St. Paul , London:    Awnsham and John Churchill, , published 1707, →OCLC, page xxiii:He  is full of the Matter he treats and writes with Warmth, which uſually neglects Method, and thoſe Partitions and Pauſes which Men educated in the Schools of Rhetoricians uſually obſerve."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(music) A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest."
            },
            {
              "mean": "Alternative spelling of Pause (“a button that pauses or resumes something”)"
            },
            {
              "mean": "(as direct object) take pause: hesitate; give pause: cause to hesitate"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    "meanskor": {
      "etymologies": [
        ""
      ],
      "typelist": [
        {
          "name": "동사.",
          "meanlist": [
            {
              "mean": ""
            },
            {
              "mean": ""
            },
            {
              "mean": ""
            },
            {
              "mean": ""
            },
            {
              "mean": ""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "명사",
          "meanlist": [
            {
              "mean": ""
            },
            {
              "mean": ""
            },
            {
              "mean": ""
            },
            {
              "mean": ""
            },
            {
              "mean": ""
            },
            {
              "mean": ""
            },
            {
              "mean": ""
            },
            {
              "mean": ""
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}