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time-out

/tahym-out/US // ˈtaɪmˈaʊt //

超时,逾时,过时,暂停

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural time·outs.

    • : a brief suspension of activity; intermission or break.
    • : Sports. a short interruption in a regular period of play during which a referee or other official stops the clock so that the players may rest, deliberate, make substitutions, etc.
    • : a short time alone used as a punishment or consequence for a child who is misbehaving.
    • : Computers. the termination of a process or event that is taking longer than expected to proceed, and that is more likely to be successful if relaunched, resubmitted, etc.the severing of an online connection after a period of inactivity, as when a user is logged out of a secure session on a webpage after a fixed period of time.

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Examples

  • “You knew it was pretty much over then because we had no timeouts,” Mahomes said.

  • With that absent, Brooks searched for some other answer all game, exhausting his timeouts before the end of the third quarter.

  • Frese called a timeout after the Badgers opened the second half with a 7-0 run, and the Terps promptly answered with a 13-0 burst of their own.

  • I have never once requested a timeout, nor have I been given one.

  • The legislation would have required any school that receives state funding to make a plan to reduce — and eventually eliminate — its reliance on any kind of timeout and restraint over the next three years.

  • "We took a blow and had a timeout and I looked down around where we were standing and what I looked at was amazing," he said.

  • A “timeout truce” in the campaign cash arms race neither limits free speech nor requires new legislation.

  • And how about guzzling from the water bottle during a timeout as if he was the only one who was thirsty?