(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.
Pauser
Definition:
(n.) One who pauses.
Example Sentences:
(1) In INLL and VNLLm, response patterns are about equally distributed between tonic, chopping, and phasic; there are no single-spike constant-latency responses of the type seen in VNLLc, although some choppers and pausers do respond with constant first-spike latency.
(2) Unit discharges were classified as laryngeal motoneuron activity according to their correlation with the time course (onset and end) of echolocation calls and their discharge rate as: Pre-off-tonic, pre-off-phasic, off-pauser, off-tonic, on-chopper, on-tonic, prior-tonic and inhibitory (Fig.
(3) At stimulus levels of 20-30 dB above BEF threshold several phasic neurons became tonic responders, whereas several primary-like type-2 cells gave "pauser" discharges.
(4) Results reported here support the conclusion that an individual neuron in the dorsal cochlear nucleus (DCN) can exhibit pauser, buildup, and chopper patterns in response to tone pips.
(5) The on-chopper and on-tonic discharge patterns were assigned to the motor activity of the lateral cricoarytenoid muscle and the off-pauser and off-tonic discharge patterns to the motor activity of the posterior cricoarytenoid muscle controlling the time course of vocal pulses.
(6) Nonmonotonicity occurred in 34% of pausers, 52% of buildup, 89% of onsets with a graded response, and 50% overall in the DCN cells.
(7) Cells with a predominant buildup pattern occur most frequently in the fusiform cell layer, whereas pausers occur throughout the DCN below the molecular layer.
(8) We performed a temporal analysis of the spectral response areas of neurons in the rat dorsal cochlear nucleus and present here an example based on a neuron showing distinct pauser and buildup responses in its PST histograms.
(9) These responses are similar to the "chopper," "buildup," and "pauser" discharge patterns reported for these cells in vivo in response to tone bursts.
(10) For example: primary-like, onset, pauser, and buildup response patterns could also show chopper-like properties; onset-inhibitory, pauser, and buildup neurons appeared to form a response continuum rather than exist as separate response categories; and onset neurons with low characteristic frequencies (CFs) often showed sustained and strongly phase-locked responses below approximately 1,000 Hz.
(11) For example, in same neuron, sustained type and pauser type responses had obtained by pure tones stimulus, but chopper type response had obtain by complex tone stimuli.
(12) Several "onset" units were isolated in the angular cochlear nucleus, but no "pauser" or "buildup" units were seen.
(13) The results suggest that little alteration in the recovery process occurs between the auditory nerve and Primarylike, Primarylike-notch, and Chopper units, but that significant changes in the recovery process occur in Pauser-Buildup and On units.
(14) Some type III units in the dorsal cochlear nucleus give complex discharge patterns that can be described as a composite of the pauser pattern and other patterns.
(15) Classification of units in the deep DCN was sometimes difficult, but "pauser," "chopper," and some "on" units were found.
(16) PST histograms of the responses revealed discharge patterns such as 'onset', 'onset-bursting' (most common), 'on-off', 'tonic-on','pauser', and 'chopper'.
(17) Almost all units in the fusiform cell layer could be classified as either "pauser" or "buildup" units.
(18) Fusiform cells often display strongly non-monotonic rate-intensity functions and pauser-buildup or buildup tone-evoked temporal responses, patterns which may be mediated by inhibitory neurotransmitters.
(19) Peristimulus time histograms (PSTHs) were usually of the pauser or buildup configuration with chopping behavior noted in certain instances.
(20) 'Pauser, 'buildup' and 'on' units also had spike responses that could be accompanied by sustained depolarizations.