Pause

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, digital, portable), remote controls, cassette decks, VCRs and optical disc players (CD, DVD, Blu-ray)

Computing

• Pause key, 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 musical pause
• Fermata, a musical pause of indefinite duration
• Pause (band), a Thai rock band
• Pause (musician), 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

Other uses

• Pause (slang), in hip hop culture, a synonym of "no homo"
• Pause, in linguistics, is a form of interruption to articulatory continuity
• Pausa, in linguistics, is a hiatus between prosodic units

See also

• The Pause (disambiguation)
• Hesitation (disambiguation)