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  • English Word Pauropoda Definition An order of small myriapods having only nine pairs of legs and destitute of tracheae.
  • English Word Pause Definition A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
  • English Word Pause Definition Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.
  • English Word Pause Definition In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts.
  • English Word Pause Definition In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach the pupil to mind the pauses.
  • English Word Pause Definition A break or paragraph in writing.
  • English Word Pause Definition A hold. See 4th Hold, 7.
  • English Word Pause Definition To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest.
  • English Word Pause Definition To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses.
  • English Word Pause Definition To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
  • English Word Pause Definition To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect.
  • English Word Pause Definition To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively.
  • English Word Paused Definition of Pause
  • English Word Pauser Definition One who pauses.
  • English Word Pausing Definition of Pause
  • English Word Pausingly Definition With pauses; haltingly.
  • English Word Pauxi Definition A curassow (Ourax pauxi), which, in South America, is often domesticated.
  • English Word Pavage Definition See Pavage.
  • English Word Pavan Definition A stately and formal Spanish dance for which full state costume is worn; -- so called from the resemblance of its movements to those of the peacock.
  • English Word Pave Definition The pavement.
  • English Word Pave Definition To lay or cover with stone, brick, or other material, so as to make a firm, level, or convenient surface for horses, carriages, or persons on foot, to travel on; to floor with brick, stone, or other solid material; as, to pave a street; to pave a court.
  • English Word Pave Definition Fig.: To make smooth, easy, and safe; to prepare, as a path or way; as, to pave the way to promotion; to pave the way for an enterprise.
  • English Word Paved Definition of Pave
  • English Word Pavement Definition That with which anythingis paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks.
  • English Word Pavement Definition To furnish with a pavement; to pave.
  • English Word Paven Definition See Pavan.
  • English Word Paver Definition One who paves; one who lays a pavement.
  • English Word Pavesade Definition A canvas screen, formerly sometimes extended along the side of a vessel in a naval engagement, to conceal from the enemy the operations on board.
  • English Word Pavese Definition Alt. of Pavesse
  • English Word Pavesse Definition Pavise.