time-out

See also: timeout, Timeout, and time out

English

Alternative forms

• timeout (especially US)

Etymology

time +‎ out

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪm.aʊt/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

time-out (plural time-outs)

1. (sports) A short break in the action of a sport, for substitution, consultation, etc.

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

2. (childish) A break from a tense, heated or stressful situation (often enforced, sometimes as a disciplinary measure); a cooling-off period.
   • 2001 January 3, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):

     As punishment, my mom gave me a 15-minute time-out.

   I'm going to take a brief time-out from this job.

   Hitting people is not acceptable! Go to your room and take a time-out!

3. (communication) The abortion of an incomplete task after a time limit considered long enough for it to end normally.

Translations

in sports

• Arabic: وَقْت مُسْتَقْطَع m (waqt mustaqṭaʕ)
• Belarusian: тайм-а́ўт m (tajm-áŭt)
• Bulgarian: прекъсване (bg) n (prekǎsvane), почивка (bg) f (počivka)
• Catalan: temps mort (ca) m, téntol (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 暫停／暂停 (zh) (zàntíng)

• Finnish: aikalisä (fi)
• French: arrêt de jeu (fr) m, temps mort (fr) m
• Georgian: ტაიმაუტი (ṭaimauṭi), მოკლე შესვენება (moḳle šesveneba)
• German: Auszeit (de) f, Timeout (de) n
• Icelandic: leikhlé (is) n
• Japanese: タイムアウト (ja) (taimuauto)
• Korean: 타임아웃 (taimaut)
• Macedonian: тајмаут m (tajmaut)
• Maori: wā hiki
• Polish: przerwa (pl) f
• Portuguese: intervalo (pt) m
• Russian: тайм-а́ут (ru) m (tajm-áut)
• Spanish: tiempo muerto m, tiempo fuera
• Swedish: timeout (sv) c, time-out (sv) c
• Turkish: mola (tr)
• Ukrainian: тайм-а́ут m (tajm-áut)

break from a heated or stressful situation

• Finnish: aikalisä (fi)
• German: Auszeit (de) f
• Japanese: タイムアウト (ja) (taimuauto)
• Maori: wā hiki
• Portuguese: tempo (pt) m
• Russian: переры́в (ru) m (pererýv), переды́шка (ru) f (peredýška), тайм-а́ут (ru) m (tajm-áut), ("smoking break", may include non-smokers) переку́р (ru) m (perekúr)
• Swedish: timeout (sv) c, time-out (sv) c, vilopaus (sv) c

intentional ending of an incomplete task after a time limit

• Finnish: aikakatkaisu
• French: time out m
• German: Timeout (de) m
• Japanese: タイムアウト (ja) (taimuauto)
• Russian: тайм-а́ут (ru) m (tajm-áut), блокиро́вка по вре́мени f (blokiróvka po vrémeni), лими́т вре́мени m (limít vrémeni)
• Swedish: tidsgräns c

Swedish

Alternative forms

• timeout

Noun

time-out c

1. a timeout (in sports, or figuratively)

   begära timeout

   call timeout

   ta timeout

   take a timeout

Declension

Declension of time-out
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	time-out	time-outen	time-outer	time-outerna
Genitive	time-outs	time-outens	time-outers	time-outernas

References

• time-out in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• time-out in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• time-out in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)