pause, intermit, break
(verb) cease an action temporarily; “We pause for station identification”; “let’s break for lunch”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
intermit (third-person singular simple present intermits, present participle intermitting, simple past and past participle intermitted)
(transitive, now rare) To interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend.
Source: Wiktionary
In`ter*mit", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Intermitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Intermitting.] Etym: [L. intermittere; inter between + mittere, missum, to send: cf. OE. entremeten to busy (one's self) with, F. s'entremettre. See Missile.]
Definition: To cause to cease for a time, or at intervals; to interrupt; to suspend. Pray to the gods to intermit the plague. Shak.
In`ter*mit", v. i.
Definition: To cease for a time or at intervals; to moderate; to be intermittent, as a fever. Pope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 November 2024
(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
