long pause

The word lunga (shortened form of the Italian lunga pausa, meaning "long pause") is sometimes added above a fermata to indicate a longer duration, the length of which is at the discretion of the performer rather than note values.

Idioms. [countable] a period of time during which somebody stops talking or stops what they are doing. There was a long pause before she answered.

"after a long pause" is correct and usable in written English. You can use it when you want to describe a period of silence in a conversation or other situation. For example: "The room was filled with tension, and after a long pause, one person finally spoke up.".

A caesura is a break in a conversation, a line of verse, or a song. Usually, a caesura means total silence, but not for long. A caesura is a pause, or an interruption. In musical notation, a caesura is a break in the music, which can be a good time for a trumpet player to catch his breath.

Use long pauses (about 1½ seconds) in your speech whenever you are changing from one key idea to the next. You can separate two 'key points' from one another. You can also separate an example / story from the main point of the speech. This is done with paragraph size pauses before and after the example / story.

... There are three types of speech pauses in spoken language silent pauses, filled pause, and breath pause (Igras-Cybulska, Ziółko, Ż elasko, & Witkowski, 2016) . While filled pauses contain filler words such as "um," silent pause contains no voice activity. ...

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A long or abnormal pause before someone answers a question may be a tip-off that they are lying. This is especially true if the answer should be simple and obvious. A pause before answering a seemingly easy question may mean that they are trying to keep track of what they've already said and how to keep the lie going.

Pause which rhymes with laws and cause, comes from the Greek word pausis, "stopping, ceasing," which comes from pauein "to stop, to cause to cease." Why don't you pause and think about that for a moment.

My advice for using pauses effectively: A good pause lasts 2-4 seconds or so. A little longer for a dramatic effect is good as well.

If you tend to speak rapidly, it is even more important to allow adequate time for pauses.

• Sense Pause. The sense pause is roughly where a comma would be in writing, but it occurs about twice as often.
• Transition Pause.
• Dramatic Pause.
• Reflective Pause.
• Pause for Effect.
• Sensory Pause.
• Pause for Emphasis.

The ending punctuation of a sentence (period, question mark, or exclamation point) normally requires the longest pause. Colons have the next longest pause, followed by semicolons. Commas indicate a very brief pause.