time out
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English
Pronunciation
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Interjection
- (sports) To call for a time-out.
- (idiomatic) To call for a suspension of activity or conversation.
- (live action roleplaying games) Used to announce the end of time in and the beginning of time out.
Noun
time out (countable and uncountable, plural time outs)
- Alternative spelling of time-out
- (uncountable, live action roleplaying games) The period of a live action roleplaying event when players are out of character.
- (countable, live action roleplaying games) The point at which such a period begins.
Antonyms
- time in (live action role-playing games)
Verb
time out (third-person singular simple present times out, present participle timing out, simple past and past participle timed out)
- (transitive, communication) To end (an incomplete task) after a time limit.
- (intransitive, communication) Of a task, to be terminated because it was not completed before a time limit.
- The download timed out because your Internet connection was disrupted.
- (transitive, business, human resources) To record the end of one's day or shift at work.
- (transitive, cricket) To declare (the batsman) out for having taken longer than two minutes to appear on the field.
Antonyms
Translations
to end (an incomplete task) after a time limit
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of a task, to be terminated because it was not completed before a time limit
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