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Princeton's WordNet

  1. time-outnoun

    a brief suspension of play

    "each team has two time-outs left"

  2. respite, recess, break, time outnoun

    a pause from doing something (as work)

    "we took a 10-minute break"; "he took time out to recuperate"

Wiktionary

  1. time-outnoun

    A short break in the action of a sport, for substitution, consultation, etc.

    We're being beaten! We need a time-out!

  2. time-outnoun

    A break from a tense, heated or stressful situation (often enforced, sometimes as a disciplinary measure); a cooling-off period.

  3. Etymology: * time + out

ChatGPT

  1. time-out

    A time-out is a temporary cessation or pause in an activity, process or situation, often used as a disciplinary strategy for children, where they are removed from an environment for poor behavior. It can also refer to a short break or pause taken during a sports event, a pause in computing to avoid errors or a break from a stressful situation to clear one's mind.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of time-out in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of time-out in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of time-out in a Sentence

  1. Philipp Hildebrand:

    It is time we let this process play out and crucially regulators also need a time out to assess the impact of all the flurry of measures adopted since the great financial crisis.

  2. South African Open:

    I am really very comfortable in life, in general, I’m having a good time out there. Like Bobby Locke once said, he’s never seen a grumpy good putter. But you see a lot of grumpy bad putters.

  3. Bill Taddicken:

    The first time I encountered it, I was blown away by the magnificence of the spectacle. One time a lady kind of berated me about the fact that I said it was going to be ‘life changing.’ She didn’t think it could ever be that impressive, after spending some time out there, she came back and apologized. She’s now been a volunteer with us every year for the past 12 years.

  4. Michael Bennet:

    People are really, really grumpy. I'm grumpy too. I'm not grumpy about White House not being involved on the political side of things. I'm grumpy because we haven't been able to pass legislation that I think would be good for the country, and that we should be able to tell people about so that we can hold off a beginning of a return to Donald Trump, donald Trump'd be a lot better off and we would be having Donald Trump spend Donald Trump time out in the country talking to people than stuck in Washington talking to people about legislating.

  5. Kyle Shanahan:

    I’m excited to see him play, i know he’s got the ability to do a lot of things. But it’s going to be the first time out there for the whole game. I’m just pumped to see him play, but I don’t go into it expecting anything. You try to prepare a guy as good as you can from our standpoint. I know he’s done his part in preparing. Then when Sunday comes, that’s usually the spot where you get to have fun and just cut it loose and you live with the results.


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