Best Practice to Pause in Javascript

Question

What is the best way to pause in JavaScript. I have attempted to use the setTimeout() function before, but I really got confused on how it works.

Answer 1

var pauseTime = 1000; //this is in milliseconds
setTimeout(runThisFunction,pauseTime);

function runThisFunction(){
 alert("i waited a second to run!");
}

it works by waiting x milliseconds then calls the function you pass .. in this case the function name is runThisFunction