Pause may refer to

Technology

* Stop playing audio or video, with the possibility to continue (in the case of video: with a still image) * The Pause key or symbol ** Found on media players (

software Software is a set of computer programs and associated documentation and data. This is in contrast to hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work. At the lowest programming level, executable code consists ...

digital Digital usually refers to something using discrete digits, often binary digits. Technology and computing Hardware *Digital electronics, electronic circuits which operate using digital signals **Digital camera, which captures and stores digital i ...

portable Portable may refer to: General * Portable building, a manufactured structure that is built off site and moved in upon completion of site and utility work * Portable classroom, a temporary building installed on the grounds of a school to provide a ...

), remote controls, cassette decks,

VCRs A videocassette recorder (VCR) or video recorder is an electromechanical device that records analog audio and analog video from broadcast television or other source on a removable, magnetic tape videocassette, and can play back the recordin ...

and

optical disc In computing and optical disc recording technologies, an optical disc (OD) is a flat, usually circular disc that encodes binary data (bits) in the form of pits and lands on a special material, often aluminum, on one of its flat surfaces. ...

players ( CD,

DVD The DVD (common abbreviation for Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan. The medium can store any kin ...

Blu-ray The Blu-ray Disc (BD), often known simply as Blu-ray, is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 2005 and released on June 20, 2006 worldwide. It is designed to supersede the DVD format, and capable of sto ...

)

Computing

Pause key The Break key (or the symbol ⎉) of a computer keyboard refers to breaking a Telegraphy, telegraph circuit and originated with 19th century practice. In modern usage, the key has no well-defined purpose, but while this is the case, it can be use ...

, the Pause/Break key on computer keyboards * pause, a DOS command * The Perl Authors Upload Server (PAUSE), an interface for uploading Perl modules to the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network

Video games

Pause (video gaming) This list includes terms used in video games and the video game industry, as well as slang used by players. 0–9 A ...

, the option to temporarily suspend play of a video game (first seen in Yar's Revenge 1982)

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

* ''Pause'' (2014 film), a 2014 Swiss film * ''Pause'' (2018 film), a Cypriot film * "Pause" (''The Boondocks''), a 2010 episode from the third season of ''The Boondocks''

Music

Rest (music) A rest is a musical notation sign that indicates the absence of a sound. Each rest symbol and name corresponds with a particular note value for length, indicating how long the silence should last. Description Rests are intervals of silence in ...

, a musical pause *

Fermata A fermata (; "from ''fermare'', to stay, or stop"; also known as a hold, pause, colloquially a birdseye or cyclops eye, or as a grand pause when placed on a note or a rest) is a symbol of musical notation indicating that the note should be pr ...

, a musical pause of indefinite duration *

Pause (band) Pause is a Thai rock band that worked with Bakery Music. Pause was composed of a small group of students who are interested in music from the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts Program in Music in Srinakharinwirot University. Pause had a chance to pla ...

, a Thai rock band *

Pause (musician) Daniel Zisette Kushnir better known by his stage name Pause is an American musician and rap artist. The multi-instrumentalist producer has risen to prominence in 2013 with placements on the Showtime series ''Ray Donovan'' (song: "Shouts Out") and ...

, 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

Other uses

Pause (slang) "No homo" is a slang phrase used at the end of a sentence to assert the statement spoken by the speaker had no intentional homosexual implications. The phrase is also "added to a statement in order to rid neselfof a possible homosexual double-ente ...

, in hip hop culture, a synonym of "no homo" *

Pausa In linguistics, pausa (Latin for 'break', from Greek παῦσις, ''pausis'' 'stopping, ceasing') is the hiatus between prosodic declination units. The concept is somewhat broad, as it is primarily used to refer to allophones that occur in cer ...

, in linguistics, the end of an utterance