2. Noun. (plural of ''pause'') ¹
3. Verb. (third-person singular of ''pause'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pauses
1. pause [v] - See also: pause
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pauses
Literary usage of Pauses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Grammar: Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners : with an by Lindley Murray (1811)
"pauses or rests, in speaking and reading, are a total cessation of the voice,
... pauses are equally necessary to the speaker, and the hearer. ..."
2. Orthophony: Or, Vocal Culture. A Manual of Elementary Exercises for the by William Russell, James Edward Murdoch, James Rush (1882)
"These pauses are addressed to the ear, and when they occur in a sentence may or
may not be indicated to the eye by the ordinary punctuation ; 3d, ..."
3. How Numerals are Read: An Experimental Study of the Reading of Isolated by Paul Washington Terry (1922)
"The readings given the last three numerals on Plate XVIII, the special numerals
1000, 333, and 25000 show fewer pauses than H gave to other numerals of like ..."
4. Pause: A Study of Its Nature and Its Rhythmical Function in Verse by Ada Laura Fonda Snell (1918)
"To show that it is in fact a unit capable of performing a rhythmic function it
is necessary to point out that readers perceive it as such by the pauses ..."
5. Orthometry: A Treatise on the Art of Versification and the Technicalities of by Robert Frederick Brewer (1893)
"These pauses are identical in many instances with the grammatical stops, ...
Metrical pauses must, therefore, be clearly distinguished from sentential stops ..."
6. An Introduction to Poetry: For Students of English Literature by Raymond Macdonald Alden (1909)
"When quantity is deficient because syllables as pronounced do not fill up the
time-in- T pauses used to tervals, there is a method of compensa- complete ..."
7. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey (1896)
"POETIC pauses. In poetry we have, in addition to other pauses, poetic pauses.
The object of these is simply to ..."
8. An Experimental Study in the Psychology of Reading by William Anton Smith (1917)
"1 and 2 show the distributions on the basis of the number of pauses for ...
Number of pauses.—The averages of the groups show that oral reading requires on ..."
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