time out

Interjection

1. 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.

Noun

time out (countable and uncountable, plural time outs)

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

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To end (an incomplete task) after a time limit.
2. (intransitive) 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, human resources) To record the end of one's day or shift at work.
4. (transitive) To declare (the batsman) out for having taken longer than two minutes to appear on the field.