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)