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 consists of computer programs that instruct the Execution (computing), execution of a computer. Software also includes design documents and specifications. The history of software is closely tied to the development of digital comput ...

digital Digital usually refers to something using discrete digits, often binary digits. Businesses *Digital bank, a form of financial institution *Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) or Digital, a computer company *Digital Research (DR or DRI), a software ...

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 AV sources and can play back the recording after rewinding. The use of a VCR to re ...

and

optical disc An optical disc is a flat, usuallyNon-circular optical discs exist for fashion purposes; see shaped compact disc. disc-shaped object that stores information in the form of physical variations on its surface that can be read with the aid o ...

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 ki ...

Blu-ray Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format. It was invented and developed in 2005 and released worldwide on June 20, 2006, capable of storing several hours of high-defin ...

)

Computing

Pause key The Break key (or the symbol ⎊) of a computer keyboard refers to breaking a 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 used by softwar ...

, 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), 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 the absence of a sound for a defined period of time in music, or one of the musical notation signs used to indicate that. The length of a rest corresponds with that of a particular note value, thus indicating how long the silence should ...

, 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 ...

, a musical pause of indefinite duration * Pause (band), 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") ...

, 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 * "(Pause)", a 2023 song by the Lottery Winners from ''

Anxiety Replacement Therapy ''Anxiety Replacement Therapy'' is the fifth studio album by English indie pop band the Lottery Winners, released on 28 April 2023 through Modern Sky UK. It includes collaborations with Shaun Ryder, Frank Turner and Boy George, as well as three s ...

Other uses

Pause (slang) "No homo" is a slang phrase used at the end of a sentence to assert the statement or action 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- ...

, in hip hop culture, a synonym of "no homo" * Pause, in linguistics, is a form of interruption to articulatory continuity *

Pausa In linguistics, pausa (Latin for 'break', from Greek παῦσις, ''pâusis'' '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 ...

, in linguistics, is a hiatus between

prosodic unit In linguistics, a prosodic unit is a segment of speech that occurs with specific prosodic properties. These properties can be those of stress, intonation (a single pitch and rhythm contour), or tonal patterns. Prosodic units occur at a hie ...