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Synonyms for time out

Grammar : Noun
Spell : tahym-out
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtaɪmˈaʊt

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Définition of time out

Origin :
  • also time out, 1896 in sports, 1939 in other occupations; from 1980 as the name of a strategy in child discipline; from time + out.
  • As in interim : noun interval
  • As in intermission : noun break, recess
  • As in interval : noun break, pause
  • As in lull : noun pause, calm
  • As in pause : noun wait, delay
  • As in recess : noun break, interval in action
  • As in respite : noun pause, suspension in activity
  • As in suspension : noun delay
  • As in break : noun interruption of activity
  • As in time-out : noun suspension of activity
  • As in cessation : noun ending
  • As in downtime : noun time during which an activity is stopped
Example sentences :
  • Time out of mind, such malleability has been the cross of the Magdalenes.
  • Extract from : « Dust » by Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
  • Well, in our town on the river, the women's heads are half the time out of the windows.
  • Extract from : « Homeward Bound » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • FROM that time out, we was with him 'most all the time, and one or t'other of us slept in his upper berth.
  • Extract from : « Tom Sawyer, Detective » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • Clemens appeared to be at this time out of tune with fiction.
  • Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine
  • Don't wait for Sue; Sue has nothing to do with you from this time out.
  • Extract from : « Sue, A Little Heroine » by L. T. Meade
  • Deforrest Young, too, had spent most of the time out of Ithaca.
  • Extract from : « The Secret of the Storm Country » by Grace Miller White
  • So she can go home and mind her business from this time out.
  • Extract from : « Blow The Man Down » by Holman Day
  • From that time out not a day passed but one or more of the crew were struck or kicked.
  • Extract from : « The Call Of The South » by Louis Becke
  • Edna spends most of her time out in the open, and nothing feazes her.
  • Extract from : « The Fifth Ace » by Douglas Grant
  • It is no kindness to a child to permit him to spend all his time out of school in play.
  • Extract from : « Society » by Henry Kalloch Rowe

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