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pause
English
Etymology
From Middle French pause, from Latin pausa, from Ancient Greek ?????? (paûsis). Compare the doublet pausa.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: pôz, IPA(key): /p??z/
- (US) enPR: pôz, IPA(key): /p?z/
- (cot–caught merger) enPR: päz, IPA(key): /p?z/
- Rhymes: -??z
- Homophones: paws, pores (in non-rhotic accents), pours (in non-rhotic accents)
Verb
pause (third-person singular simple present pauses, present participle pausing, simple past and past participle paused)
- (intransitive) To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.
- (intransitive) To interrupt an activity and wait.
- (intransitive) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
- (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
- (intransitive, obsolete) To consider; to reflect.
Translations
Noun
pause (plural pauses)
- A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
- Synonyms: hiatus, moratorium, recess; see also Thesaurus:pause
- A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
- Synonyms: break, holiday, recess; see also Thesaurus:vacation
- Hesitation; suspense; doubt.
- Synonyms: vacillation, wavering
- In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark.
- A break or paragraph in writing.
- (music) A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.
- Alternative spelling of Pause (“a button that pauses or resumes something”)
- (as direct object) take pause: hesitate; give pause: cause to hesitate
Derived terms
- filled pause
- pregnant pause
Translations
Danish
Etymology
From Latin pausa, from Ancient Greek ???? (paú?, “stop”).
Noun
pause c (singular definite pausen, plural indefinite pauser)
- pause
Declension
Derived terms
- pausere
Further reading
- “pause” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “pause” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pausa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /poz/
Noun
pause f (plural pauses)
- pause, break
- (music) rest
Derived terms
- pause thé
Further reading
- “pause” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Noun
pause f
- plural of pausa
Middle French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pausa.
Noun
pause f (plural pauses)
- pause (brief cessation)
Descendants
- ? English: pause
- French: pause
References
- “pause” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin pausa, from Ancient Greek ???? (paú?, “stop”).
Noun
pause m (definite singular pausen, indefinite plural pauser, definite plural pausene)
- a pause, a break (short time for relaxing)
Derived terms
- hvilepause
- kaffepause
- lunsjpause
References
- “pause” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin pausa, from Ancient Greek ???? (paú?, “stop”).
Noun
pause m (definite singular pausen, indefinite plural pausar, definite plural pausane)
- a pause or break (short time for relaxing)
Derived terms
- lunsjpause
References
- “pause” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Verb
pause
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of pausar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of pausar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of pausar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of pausar
Spanish
Verb
pause
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of pausar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of pausar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of pausar.
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quit
English
Alternative forms
- quight (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- enPR: kw?t, IPA(key): /kw?t/, [k?w??t]
- Rhymes: -?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English quiten, quyten, from Anglo-Norman quitter, Old French quitter, from quitte (“acquited, quit”), ultimately from Latin quietus.
Compare Dutch kwijten (“to quit”), German Low German quitten (“to quit”), German quitten, quittieren, Danish kvitte, Swedish qvitta, kvitta (“to quit, leave, set off”), Icelandic kvitta.
Verb
quit (third-person singular simple present quits, present participle quitting, simple past and past participle quit or quitted)
- (transitive, archaic) To pay (a debt, fine etc.).
- 1605, William Shakespeare
- Enkindle all the sparks of nature / To quit this horrid act.
- that judge that quits each soul his hire
- 1605, William Shakespeare
- (transitive, obsolete) To repay (someone) for (something).
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:
- But if that I knewe what his name hight,
For clatering of me I would him ?one quight;
For his fal?e lying, of that I ?pake never,
I could make him ?hortly repent him forever: […]
- But if that I knewe what his name hight,
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:
- (transitive, obsolete) To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:
- Vnthankfull wretch (said he) is this the meed, / With which her soueraigne mercy thou doest quight?
- 1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, III.2:
- Forgive me, Rogero: 'tis my fate / To love thy friend and quit thy love with hate.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:
- (reflexive, archaic) To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).
- Be strong and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.
- (transitive, archaic) To carry through; to go through to the end.
- 1595-1609, Samuel Daniel, Civil Wars
- Never worthy prince a day did quit / With greater hazard and with more renown.
- 1595-1609, Samuel Daniel, Civil Wars
- (transitive) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
- 1688, William Wake, Preparation for Death
- To quit you […] of this fear, […] you have already lookt Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it?
- 1688, William Wake, Preparation for Death
- (transitive) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
- (transitive) To abandon, renounce (a thing).
- (transitive) To leave (a place).
- Jones had no sooner quitted the room, than the petty-fogger, in a whispering tone, asked Mrs Whitefield, “If she knew who that fine spark was?”
- (transitive, intransitive) To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).
- (transitive, computing) To close (an application).
Adjective
quit (not comparable)
- (usually followed by of) Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid.
- 1990, Claude de Bèze, 1688 revolution in Siam: the memoir of Father de Bèze, s.j, translated by E. W. Hutchinson, University Press, page 153:
- With mounting anger the King denounced the pair, both father and son, and was about to condemn them to death when his strength gave out. Faint and trembling he was unable to walk and the sword fell from his hands as he murmured: 'May the Protector of the Buddhist Faith grant me but seven more days grace of life to be quit of this disloyal couple, father and son'.
- 1990, Claude de Bèze, 1688 revolution in Siam: the memoir of Father de Bèze, s.j, translated by E. W. Hutchinson, University Press, page 153:
Usage notes
- The past tense of quit is now quit for most speakers and writers; dictionaries usually allow quitted as an alternative, but it is rare or nonexistent in North America and Australia, and outnumbered by quit by about 16 to 1 in the British National Corpus. Quitted is more commonly used to mean “left”. e.g., She quitted her job.
Conjugation
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:quit.
Derived terms
- quitter
Translations
References
Pam Peters, The Cambridge Guide to English Usage, Cambridge University Press, p. 453.
Etymology 2
Probably of imitative origin.
Noun
quit (plural quits)
- Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America. [from 19th c.]
Derived terms
- bananaquit
- grassquit
- orangequit
Related terms
- guitguit
Further reading
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
French
Verb
quit
- third-person singular past historic of quérir
Latin
Verb
quit
- third-person singular present active indicative of que?
Old French
Verb
quit
- first-person singular present indicative of quidier
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