Pause vs. Hiatus

Pause vs. Hiatus — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Pause and Hiatus

Pauseverb

(intransitive) To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.

Hiatusnoun

A gap in a series, making it incomplete.

Pauseverb

(intransitive) To interrupt an activity and wait.

When telling the scary story, he paused for effect.

Hiatusnoun

An interruption, break or pause.

Pauseverb

(intransitive) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.

Hiatusnoun

An unexpected break from work.

Twenty one pilots’ hiatus seems like it‘s never going to end.
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Pauseverb

(transitive) To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.

to pause a song, a video, or a computer game

Hiatusnoun

(geology) A gap in geological strata.

Pauseverb

To consider; to reflect.

Hiatusnoun

(anatomy) An opening in an organ.

Hiatus aorticus is an opening in the diaphragm through which aorta and thoracic duct pass.

Pausenoun

A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.

Hiatusnoun

(linguistics) A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant. (Compare diphthong.)

Words like reality and naïve contain vowels in hiatus.
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Pausenoun

A short time for relaxing and doing something else.

Hiatusnoun

an interruption in the intensity or amount of something

Pausenoun

Hesitation; suspense; doubt.

Hiatusnoun

a missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript)

Pausenoun

In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark.

Teach the pupil to mind the pauses.

Hiatusnoun

a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure

Pausenoun

A break or paragraph in writing.

Pausenoun

(music) A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.

Pausenoun

alternative spelling of Pause||a button that pauses or resumes something

Pausenoun

take pause: hesitate; give pause: cause to hesitate

Pausenoun

a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something

Pausenoun

temporary inactivity

Pauseverb

interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing;

The speaker paused

Pauseverb

cease an action temporarily;

We pause for station identificationlet's break for lunch