(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.
Resume
Definition:
(n.) A summing up; a condensed statement; an abridgment or brief recapitulation.
(v. t.) To take back.
(v. t.) To enter upon, or take up again.
(v. t.) To begin again; to recommence, as something which has been interrupted; as, to resume an argument or discourse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eighty-eight patients (97%) had a stable fixation and 77 (85%) had resumed preoperative activity or were working but with a residual deficit.
(2) Menses resumed in all 6 women 7 to 41 days after the injection, galactorrhea disappeared in all 4 patients, and libido and potency become normal in both men with microprolactinomas.
(3) A sharp decrease in oxygen uptake occurred in Neurospora crassa cells that were transferred from 30 degrees C to 45 degrees C, and the respiration that resumed later at 45 degrees C was cyanide-insensitive.
(4) Acid and pepsin output from the denervated pouch in response to pentagastrin and food decreased significantly (P less than 0.001) after parenteral feeding and returned to control levels after the dogs resumed a normal diet.
(5) The majority (55%) of patients were able to resume intercourse one to two months postoperation.
(6) They shouted at her: ‘Keep your hands in the air!’ They told her: ‘We’re going to shoot.’ “The shooting resumed.
(7) Paradigm relies heavily on social science research and analysis to help companies identify and address the specific barriers and unconscious biases that might be affecting their diversity efforts: things like anonymizing resumes so that employers can’t tell a candidate’s gender or ethnicity, or modifying a salary negotiation process that places women and minorities at a disadvantage.
(8) Only NAT activity exhibited daily changes, rising at the onset of darkness and resuming low values shortly before the end of the scotophase.
(9) When reinforcement for competing behavior was withdrawn, however, rats resumed their original behavior and there were no overall savings in total responses to extinction.
(10) Within 2 days after surgical correction of the bronchoesophageal fistula, peristalsis in the thoracic portion of the esophagus returned to normal and the esophagus resumed its normal size.
(11) No one can determine when it will be safe for them to return home or when a normal life in school can be resumed.
(12) The ftsA and ftsE mutants resumed cell division without new protein synthesis; ftsD mutants resumed cell division only if new protein synthesis occured, while ftsB, C, F and G mutants did not resume cell division at all.
(13) The coronavirus JHMV persistently infects rat Schwannoma cells RN2-2 at 32.5 degrees C and enters a host-imposed reversible, latent state at 39.5 degrees C. JHMV can remain up to 20 days in the latent state and about 14 days before the cultures lose the capacity to resume virus production upon return to 32.5 degrees C. Although persistently and latently infected RN2-2 cells display resistance to superinfection by a heterologous agent VSV, these cells do not release detectable soluble mediators (e.g., interferon) of the antiviral state.
(14) Why, they reasoned, would voters invite the architects of the Iraq war to resume control of US foreign policy?
(15) It will resume at 2pm, when David Cameron will resume his evidence.
(16) The toxicity encountered was minimal except for seizures possibly related to vincristine in three children, who were able to resume treatment.
(17) Rubio, whose foreign policy resume includes positions on the Senate foreign relations committee and select committee on intelligence, said on Wednesday there was “no one running for president” who had access to more sensitive information than he did.
(18) Compared with conventional surgery, the advantages of laparoscopic cholecystectomy are well known: the entire peritoneal cavity is explored; the lack of postoperative ileus makes it possible to resume normal feeding, and hence normal activity, after a short interruption; systemic and parietal complications are less frequent, but the biliary tract complication rate is higher, probably in relation to the operator's training.
(19) Radio-frequency lesions were made and testing was resumed after 3 days.
(20) Full-time faculty numbers in academic departments of obstetrics-gynecology have resumed growth in the last three years, and now average 18.3 per department.