Synonyms for time out
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : tahym-out |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈtaɪmˈaʊt |
Top 10 synonyms for time out Other synonyms for the word time out
- abeyance
- abeyancy
- acquittal
- adjournment
- apnea
- arrest
- breach
- break
- break-off
- breath
- breather
- breathing space
- breathing spell
- caesura
- cease
- ceasing
- cessation
- close
- coffee break
- comma
- concluding
- conclusion
- cutoff
- deadlock
- deferment
- delay
- deliverance
- desistance
- disbarment
- discharge
- discontinuance
- discontinuation
- discontinuing
- distance
- doldrums
- dormancy
- downtime
- ease
- end
- ending
- exculpation
- finish
- five
- forgiveness
- freedom
- freeze
- gap
- gridlock
- grinding halt
- halting
- happy hour
- heave-ho
- hesitancy
- hiatus
- immunity
- interim
- interlude
- interregnum
- interruption
- interval
- lacuna
- lapse
- latency
- layoff
- leisure
- let-up
- letup
- lull
- meantime
- meanwhile
- moratorium
- opening
- pardon
- parenthesis
- pausation
- pause
- period
- playtime
- postponement
- protraction
- quiescence
- quiescency
- quiet
- recess
- relaxation
- release
- relief
- remission
- repose
- reprieve
- respite
- rest
- rest period
- screaming halt
- season
- short break
- silence
- space
- spare time
- spell
- stand
- standstill
- stay
- stillness
- stop
- stopover
- stoppage
- suspense
- suspension
- take ten
- ten
- term
- termination
- time
- time off
- time on one's hands
- time out
- time to burn
- time to kill
- time-out
- tranquility
- truce
- vacation
- wait
- while
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
- 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
Antonyms for time out
- action
- activity
- advance
- association
- attachment
- bad luck
- beginning
- binding
- blame
- busyness
- censure
- clamor
- closure
- combination
- commencement
- completion
- continuance
- continuation
- continuity
- disturbance
- employment
- energy
- fastening
- go
- hold
- initiation
- introduction
- juncture
- loudness
- misfortune
- noise
- opening
- permanence
- persistence
- punishment
- sentence
- start
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