different between pause vs stound

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)

1. (intransitive) To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.
2. (intransitive) To interrupt an activity and wait.
3. (intransitive) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
4. (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

5. (intransitive, obsolete) To consider; to reflect.

Translations

Noun

pause (plural pauses)

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

   Synonyms: hiatus, moratorium, recess; see also Thesaurus:pause
2. A short time for relaxing and doing something else.

   Synonyms: break, holiday, recess; see also Thesaurus:vacation

3. Hesitation; suspense; doubt.

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

5. A break or paragraph in writing.
6. (music) A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.
7. Alternative spelling of Pause (“a button that pauses or resumes something”)
8. (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)

1. 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)

1. pause, break
2. (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

1. plural of pausa

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pausa.

Noun

pause f (plural pauses)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. a pause or break (short time for relaxing)

Derived terms

• lunsjpause

References

• “pause” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Verb

pause

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of pausar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of pausar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of pausar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of pausar

Spanish

Verb

pause

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of pausar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of pausar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of pausar.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sta?nd/, /stu?nd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /sta?nd/, /stund/
• Rhymes: -a?nd, -u?nd

Etymology 1

From Middle English stond, stounde, stound (“hour, time, season, moment”), from Old English stund (“a period of time, while, hour, occasion”), from Proto-Germanic *stund? (“point in time, hour”), from Proto-Indo-European *stut- (“prop”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh?- (“to stand”). Cognate with Dutch stond (“hour, time, moment”), German Stunde (“hour”), Danish stund (“time, while”), and Swedish stund (“time, while”). Compare Middle English stunden (“to linger, stay, remain for a while”), Icelandic stunda (“to frequent, pursue”). Related to stand.

Alternative forms

• stund, stoind, stoond, stoon, stoun, stuind (Scotland)

Noun

stound (plural stounds)

1. (chronology, obsolete or dialectal) An hour.
   • 1765, Percy's Reliques, The King and the Tanner of Tamworth (original license: 1564):

     What booth wilt thou have? our king reply'd / Now tell me in this stound

2. (obsolete) A tide, season.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

3. (archaic or dialectal) A time, length of time, hour, while.
   • 1801, Walter Scott, The Talisman:

     He lay and slept, and swet a stound, / And became whole and sound.

4. (archaic or dialectal) A brief span of time, moment, instant.

   Listen to me a little stound.
5. A moment or instance of urgency; exigence.
6. (dialectal) A sharp or sudden pain; a shock, an attack.
   • 1857, Alexander Maclaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture:

     No wonder that they cried unto the Lord, and felt a stound of despair shake their courage

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:

     ere the point arriued, where it ought, / That seuen-fold shield, which he from Guyon brought / He cast betwene to ward the bitter stound [...].

7. A stroke or blow (from an object or weapon); (by extension) a lashing; scourging
   • 1807, Sir Egerton Brydges, Censura Literaria:

     How many pipes, as many sounds Do still impart To your Sonne's hart / As many deadly wounds : How many strokes, as many stounds, Each stroke a dart, Each stound a smart, Poore captive me confounds.

   • 1843, Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, Proceedings of the Court of Inquiry appointed to inquire into the intended mutiny on board the United States Brig of War Somers, on the high seas:

     A colt is made of three stounds, I think; it is lighter, much, than the cat. The punishment with the colt is always given without stripping, over the clothes.

8. A fit, an episode or sudden outburst of emotion; a rush.
   • 1893, The Homoeopathic World:

     Several stounds of pain in the cleft between great and second toe (anterior tibial nerve). I forget which side, but I think it was the right. Slight pains in left temple, > pressure. Pain in upper part of right eyeball.

   • 1895, Mansie Wauch, The Life of Mansie Wauch: tailor in Dalkeith:

     [...] and run away with him, almost whether he will or not, in a stound of unbearable love!

9. Astonishment; amazement.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

   • 1720, John Gay, "Prologue", in Poems on Several Occasions

     we stood as in a stound,
     And wet with tears , like dew , the ground

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

stound (third-person singular simple present stounds, present participle stounding, simple past and past participle stounded)

1. (obsolete or dialectal, intransitive) To hurt, pain, smart.
   • 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act IV, Scene II, verses 93-95

     Your wrath, weak boy ? Tremble at mine unless

     Retraction follow close upon the heels

     Of that late stounding insult […]

2. (obsolete or dialectal, intransitive) To be in pain or sorrow, mourn.
3. (obsolete or dialectal, intransitive) To long or pine after, desire.
   • 1823, Edward Moor, Suffolk words and phrases: or, An attempt to collect the lingual localisms of that county:

     Recently weaned children "stound after the breast."

Etymology 2

From Middle English stunden (“to linger, stay, remain for a while”). Cognate with Icelandic stunda (“to frequent, pursue”). More at stand.

Verb

stound (third-person singular simple present stounds, present participle stounding, simple past and past participle stounded)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To stand still; stop.
2. (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To stop to listen; pause.

Noun

stound (plural stounds)

1. (Britain dialectal) A stand; a stop.

Etymology 3

From Middle English stound, stonde, stoonde, ston, from Old English stond (“a stand”). Compare stand.

Noun

stound (plural stounds)

1. A receptacle for holding small beer.
   • 1987, Alastair Mackie, Ingaidherins: Selected Poems - Page 54:

     Will Ardnamurchan never end? We're four stounds in a metal box [...]

Anagrams

• Dutson, donuts, stunod

Middle English

Alternative forms

• stounde, stounte, stowunde, stund, stunde, stunt, stonde, stont, stonte, stunden

Etymology

From Old English stund (“a period of time, while, hour, occasion”), from Proto-Germanic *stund? (“point in time, hour”).

Noun

stound

1. A while: a short span of time.
2. Time, especially the proper time for doing something:
   1. A moment, a chance, an opportunity.
   2. A season of the year.
   3. A canonical hour: one of the 3-hour divisions of the day, (Christianity) its divine office.
   4. An hour: one of the 24 divisions of the day.

Descendants

• English: stound
• Scots: stound

Adverb

stound

1. A while: for a short span of time.

References

• "st?und(e" in the Middle English Dictionary

Scots

Etymology 1

From Middle English stound (“a moment”), from Old English stund, Old Norse stund

Noun

stound (plural stounds)

1. A period of time, a moment.
2. (obsolete) A sudden pain, a pang.
3. (Middle Scots, obsolete) A stroke or blow (from an object or weapon).
4. (obsolete) A verbal attack, invective.

Verb

stound (third-person singular present stounds, present participle stoundin, past stoundit, past participle stoundit)

1. (transitive) To inflict pain on, to wound.
2. (intransitive) To hurt, to be painful.

References

• stound n. in A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, Scottish Language Dictionaries, Edinburgh.
• stound v.¹ in A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, Scottish Language Dictionaries, Edinburgh.

Etymology 2

From Middle English stun, stunien; Middle English astound

Verb

stound (third-person singular present stounds, present participle stoundin, past stoundit, past participle stoundit)

1. To astound, to stupefy, to terrify

References

• stound v.² in A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, Scottish Language Dictionaries, Edinburgh.