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Chinese translation of 'time out'
time out
(US) (Sport)
n (c)
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休场(場)
(xiūchǎng)英 = stoppage
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Nearby words oftime out
- time is getting on
- time limit
- time off
- time out
- time went very slowly/quickly
- time zone
- time's up!
time out
also time-out
Word forms: plural time outs
1. variable noun
In basketball, American football, ice hockey, and some other sports, when a team callsa time out, they call a stop to the game for a few minutes in order to rest and discuss howthey are going to play.
2. uncountable noun [NOUN to-infinitive]
If you take time out from a job or activity, you have a break from it and do something different instead.
He took time out from campaigning to accompany his mother to dinner. [+ from]
...women returning to the labour market after time out to raise young families.
time out in British English
(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.
time-out in British English
noun
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