单词 | time out |
释义 | Word Frequency time out(taɪm aʊt) or time-out noun 1. sport in basketball, American football, ice hockey, and some other sports, when a team calls a time out, they call a stop to the game for a few minutes in order to rest and discuss how they are going to play 2. if you take time out from a job or activity, you have a break from it and do something different instead Women are returning to the labour market after time out to raise young families. He took time out from campaigning to accompany his mother to a dinner. Word Frequency time-outnoun 1. sport an interruption in play during which players rest, discuss tactics, or make substitutions 2. a break taken during working hours 3. computing a condition occurring when the amount of time a computer has been instructed to wait for another device to perform a task has expired, usually indicated by an error message verb time out 4. (intransitive) (of a computer) to stop operating because of a time-out |
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