What's the difference between dwell and pause?

Dwell


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To delay; to linger.
  • (v. i.) To abide; to remain; to continue.
  • (v. i.) To abide as a permanent resident, or for a time; to live in a place; to reside.
  • (v. t.) To inhabit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nango's dwellings are built on skis so can be pulled around the beach, and have a glass roof to view the northern lights.
  • (2) Further, they dwell on the management of these infections and illustrate the properties, toxic effects and other side effects of the antibiotics commonly used in therapy and for the prevention of complications.
  • (3) Current income, highest income, occupation, type of dwelling, years of education, and crowding did not enter the stepwise regression model at alpha = .10.
  • (4) A policy of selective antibiotic prophylaxis is justified and in high risk patients with in-dwelling catheters single dose prophylaxis is highly effective.
  • (5) The dwell-time histogram in each substate was well fitted with a single-exponential function.
  • (6) The frequency of mites in dust from farmers' homes was three times higher and that of pyroglyphids ten times higher than in other dwellings.
  • (7) The typical synanthropic species Glycyphagus domesticus is totally absent from dwellings but occurs in 90% of honey-bee hives.
  • (8) Absence of a functioning velocity storage network in bottom-dwelling teleosts (as in Amphibia) may be related to the sporadic, slow locomotion of these species and the resulting small requirements for continuous gaze stabilization during self-motion at higher velocities.
  • (9) The sample comprised 101 community-dwelling older adults aged 57 to 87.
  • (10) Republicans were under pressure not to dwell on Clinton’s use of a private email server as too zealous an attack could come off as partisan.
  • (11) Approximately 1,056 dwellings were located in the Oberon Shire by the interviewers; household interviews were obtained from 789 of them.
  • (12) A significant seasonal variation of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels was noted in elderly community-dwelling subjects.
  • (13) After displaying the results concerning arrhythmias of 24 hr Holter electrocardiograms recorded in 207 randomized patients who had undergone valvular replacement 15 days before, the authors dwell upon the use of Holter electrocardiography in 82 valvular patients after pharmacological cardioversion and show that major arrhythmias get a clear reduction thanks to rehabilitation.
  • (14) Bucknall, 53, is reluctant to dwell on mistakes that have been made, but admits "it would be odd if after 10 years, we hadn't learned a lot".
  • (15) Second-order factor analyses yielded two comparable sets of three second-order factors: Social Activities and Self-Care Ability, whereas the third factor connected high welfare with age-segregated dwelling (and low welfare with age-integration).
  • (16) The number of years spend in dwellings without central heating was significantly inversely associated with the level of FEV1 and MMEF, and significantly directly associated with closing capacity in per cent of TLC, CC%.
  • (17) A greater loss of proteins overnight was due to longer dwell time as the mean rate of loss was similar for all exchanges.
  • (18) Additional studies are highly desirable to confirm or refute these findings, which, if valid, mean increasing lung cancer hazards caused by a decrease in ventilation in future energy saving unless special measures are undertaken to reduce radon daughters in dwellings.
  • (19) We investigated whether day to day changes in the transport characteristics of the peritoneal membrane to macromolecules in patients treated with CAPD, were related to the levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6) in the effluent of an overnight dwell.
  • (20) Using the assumption that prolonged dwell time indicates intensive processing of visual data, a model was developed for nodule detection that includes four steps: orientation, scanning, pattern recognition and decision-making.

Pause


Definition:

  • (n.) A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
  • (n.) Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.
  • (n.) In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts.
  • (n.) In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach the pupil to mind the pauses.
  • (n.) A break or paragraph in writing.
  • (n.) A hold. See 4th Hold, 7.
  • (n.) To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest.
  • (n.) To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses.
  • (n.) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
  • (n.) To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect.
  • (v. t.) To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.
  • (2) The percent pause time, the standard deviation of the voice fundamental frequency distribution, the standard deviation of the rate of change of the voice fundamental frequency and the average speed of voice change were found to correlate to the clinical state of the patient.
  • (3) The difference in APD between the first drive train and drive trains after at least 3 minutes of pacing when APD had stabilized was not significant for an inter-train pause exceeding 8 seconds.
  • (4) The aim of this study was clarify the physiopathological mechanisms underlying atrial pauses as well as to evaluate the sensitivity of sinoatrial conduction time (SACT) directly measured on SNE and of SACT estimated with the indirect Strauss method with respect to the detection of SSS.
  • (5) Nucleotide incorporation kinetics were determined and sequence specific pausing was analyzed by primer-extension.
  • (6) Similar responses were obtained with gated noise bursts and by pauses in a series of clicks.
  • (7) High voltage stimuli were always effective, while when the pulse amplitude was reduced to 3.8 volt stimuli were uneffective except when occurring after extremely long asystolic pauses.
  • (8) The students received cues-pause-point training on an initial question set followed by generalization assessments on a different set in another setting.
  • (9) This comparison shows that: (1) evaluation of sleep states by CPG technique is only reliable for quiet sleep and (2) there was a significant difference in the number of pauses, the evaluation with PSG being systematically higher than with CPG.
  • (10) A short direct repeat sequence (AGGAGC), resembling the sequence shown to cause DNA polymerase alpha to pause, and sequences capable of forming hairpin loops were both present at the 5' and 3' break-points of the deletion.
  • (11) "The performance of Italy and France kind of puts Ireland's heroic non-qualification in context," suggests Sean DeLoughry, giving everyone pause for thought.
  • (12) SW: Yes she bloody did, did you not hear that pause?
  • (13) In the pulsed mode, impulse duration and pause duration were varied between 50 and 500 ms. Total duration of coagulation was 30 s in all cases.
  • (14) Van Gaal’s team can enjoy the two-week pause in action.
  • (15) During prolonged diastolic pauses, programmed atrial contractions were induced at progressively increasing coupling intervals.
  • (16) But even away from this disaster, facts about the industry's cost and scope to meet Europe's energy needs should be enough to give nuclear supporters pause.
  • (17) The maximum postoverdrive pause ranged from 680 to 1600 ms with an average of 1100 ms plus or minus 190 (10).
  • (18) On a dreich November evening in Gourock, a red-coated mongrel is wandering between the seats in a room above a pub, pausing to sniff handbags for hidden treats.
  • (19) The building that is happening in Qatar should be paused and they should have a fair and open competition."
  • (20) The results suggest that Cues, Pause, Point procedures may offer some potential for replacing delusional responding with appropriate responding to social stimuli.