time‐outの英語

発音

間投詞

time out

1. (sports) To call for a time-out.
2. (idiomatic) To call for a suspension of activity or conversation.
3. (live action roleplaying games) Used to announce the end of time in and the beginning of time out.

名詞

time out (countable and uncountable, plural time outs)

1. Alternative spelling of time-out
2. (uncountable, live action roleplaying games) The period of a live action roleplaying event when players are out of character.
3. (countable, live action roleplaying games) The point at which such a period begins.

反意語

• time in (live action role-playing games)

動詞

time out (third-person singular simple present times out, present participle timing out, simple past and past participle timed out)

1. (transitive, communication) To end (an incomplete task) after a time limit.
2. (intransitive, communication) Of a task, to be terminated because it was not completed before a time limit.

   The download timed out because your Internet connection was disrupted.

3. (transitive, business, human resources) To record the end of one's day or shift at work.
4. (transitive, cricket) To declare (the batsman) out for having taken longer than two minutes to appear on the field.

反意語

• time in

別の表記

• timeout (especially US)

語源

From time +‎ out.

発音

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

名詞

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.

   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!

   • 2001 January 3, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):

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

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

別の表記

• time out

語源

From time +‎ out.

発音

• IPA: /ˈtaɪm.aʊt/
• ハイフネーション: time‧out

名詞

timeout (plural timeouts)

1. (communication) The allowed maximal time for a process to end normally.
2. (communication) The intentional termination of an incomplete task after a time limit considered long enough for it to end normally.

   My connection was so slow that I kept receiving timeouts when trying to view Web pages.

3. (sports) Alternative form of time-out

派生語