how to pronounce pause

/pɔːz/

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the above transcription of pause is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.

pause is pronounced in one syllable

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ɔː

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An example use of pause in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… it does I had pause about my process at …”

meaning of pause

Pause means to stop for a moment.

pause frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word pause occurs in english on average 19.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics pause can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that pause can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;