The difference between Leave off and Pause

When used as verbs, leave off means to omit, whereas pause means to take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.


Pause is also noun with the meaning: a temporary stop or rest.

check bellow for the other definitions of Leave off and Pause

  1. Leave off as a verb (transitive, idiomatic):

    To omit.

  2. Leave off as a verb (informal):

    To desist; to cease.

    Examples:

    "Leave off hitting him!"

  3. Leave off as a verb (intransitive):

    To stop with a view to resuming at a later point.

  1. Pause as a verb (intransitive):

    To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.

  2. Pause as a verb (intransitive):

    To interrupt an activity and wait.

    Examples:

    "When telling the scary story, he paused for effect."

  3. Pause as a verb (intransitive):

    To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.

  4. Pause as a verb (transitive):

    To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.

    Examples:

    "to pause a song, a video, or a computer game"

  5. Pause as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To consider; to reflect.

  1. Pause as a noun:

    A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.

  2. Pause as a noun:

    A short time for relaxing and doing something else.

  3. Pause as a noun:

    Hesitation; suspense; doubt.

  4. Pause as a noun:

    In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark.

    Examples:

    "Teach the pupil to mind the pauses."

  5. Pause as a noun:

    A break or paragraph in writing.

  6. Pause as a noun (music):

    A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.

  7. Pause as a noun:

  8. Pause as a noun:

    take pause: hesitate; give pause: cause to hesitate