Pause


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Pause may refer to

Computing

  • Pause key, the Pause/Break key on computer keyboards
  • pause, a DOS command
  • Stop playing audio or video, with the possibility to continue (in the case of video: with a still image)
    • The Pause key or symbol on media players
  • The Perl Authors Upload Server (PAUSE), an interface for uploading Perl modules to the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

  • Pause (film), a 2014 Swiss film
  • "Pause" (The Boondocks), a 2010 episode from the third season of The Boondocks

Literature

  • "The Pause", a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov
  • The Pause (novel), 2015 novel

Music

  • Rest (music), a musical pause
  • Fermata, a musical pause of indefinite duration
  • Pause (band), a Thai rock band
  • Pause (musician) (born 1982), American musician and rap artist
  • Pause (Four Tet album), 2001
  • Pause (P-Model album), 1994
  • "Pause" (Run–D.M.C. song), 1990
  • "Pause" (Jay Dee song), 2001
  • "Pause" (Pitbull song), 2011

Video games

  • Pause (video gaming), the option to temporarily suspend play of a video game

Other uses

  • Pause (slang), in hip hop culture, a synonym of "no homo"
  • Pausa, in linguistics, the end of an utterance

See also

  • Hesitation (disambiguation)
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