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time-out

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  1. (n) time-out
    a brief suspension of play "each team has two time-outs left"
Quotations
Walter Lippmann
Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
Walter Lippmann
Lee Trevino
I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.
Lee Trevino
Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in.
Ted Cook
Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.
Julie Burchill
James Baldwin
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
James Baldwin
Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.
Persian Proverb
Usage in the news

The former shuttle commander and top gun pilot took time out of his busy schedule to meet with some possible future astronauts at Columbia's Hickman High School. krcg.com

Recommended by the Thai Government & Time Out Magazine. playbill.com

It's dark times out there on Wall Street. nymag.com

People from across the Tri-Cities continue to take time out of their busy schedules to save lives, during the 12 Days of Giving blood drive. kvewtv.com

), the singer took time out from his busy schedule to promote something that was close to his heart. radaronline.com

He took some time out of his fourth visit to the Syracuse International Film Festival last week to talk with The Post-Standard about the festival, independent movies, and his own work. blog.syracuse.com

In many ways, it was Chamberlain 's first true time out from baseball in years. nj.com

Taylor Swift is taking time out of her busy album release week for Red next month to encourage kids across the country to read. kobfm.com

He didn't quite get that against the Mavericks on Wednesday night, but it was much better than the last time out. dallasnews.com

Time out for a compliment . dallasnews.com

Marquette teammates (from left) Davante Gardner, Junior Cadougan, Trent Lockett, Vander Blue, and Juan Anderson gather during a time out against Wisconsin at the BMO Harris Bradley Center on Dec 8. jsonline.com

The NBC Owned Stations will launch a Me-TV-style classic hits subchannel called Cozi TV, according to Time Out Chicago, on the first of the year. broadcastingcable.com

Time Out, Photograph: Roxana Marroquin. timeoutny.com

Sam Adams writes for the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Time Out New York, the Onion A.V. slate.com

Keith Olbermann is calling a time-out. usnews.com

Usage in scientific papers

For a normal mechanicallyshuttered non-FT camera, the dead time is equal to the read-out time of the CCD.
On the use of electron-multiplying CCDs for astronomical spectroscopy

It turns out, however, that for given deterministic times S < U , the set of separation points that are relevant for deciding where paths in the Brownian net started at time S end up at time U is a locally ๏ฌnite subset of R ร— [S, U ].
Stochastic flows in the Brownian web and net

Out of the 20 short period binary systems in our sample, 12 have merger times shorter than a Hubble time.
The ELM Survey. II. Twelve Binary White Dwarf Merger Systems

Starting from the empty graph, at time t, an undirected edge (u, v) is given uniformly at random out of all missing edges, and a choice of its orientation (u โ†’ v or v โ†’ u) is to be made at the time of its arrival.
Getting directed Hamilton cycle twice faster

Note that the resulting graph will be similar to a random 5-in 5-out directed graph, but still different as some vertices will only have 1 in-neighbor and 1 out-neighbor even at time m.
Getting directed Hamilton cycle twice faster

Usage in literature

The old man had routed Ase Horner out by the time we got there, and they was havin' it hot and heavy. "Shorty McCabe" by Sewell Ford

This is the in-between time, much lengthened out. "Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation" by S. D. Gordon

Kate was not to be drawn out: "I found out a long time ago that Doctor Carpy doesn't tell all he knows," she observed dryly. "Laramie Holds the Range" by Frank H. Spearman

It continued for some time, and looking out towards the east, whence it appeared to come, we saw dark clouds collecting. "In the Wilds of Africa" by W.H.G. Kingston

They must be prepared for a bad time until they made it out of the Union lines and south again. "Ride Proud, Rebel!" by Andre Alice Norton

It always has been so time out of mind in point of fact. "The History of Sir Richard Calmady" by Lucas Malet

I shall give out that I strained myself a bit the last time I was out, and must give up riding for a time. "A Girl of the Commune" by George Alfred Henty

Lion tuck'n druv 'im off, en fum dat time out Brer Rabbit bin huntin' a chance fer ter ketch up wid 'im. "Nights With Uncle Remus" by Joel Chandler Harris

In the end, the question was rendered unnecessary for the time being, since the problem was taken out of his hands. "Anything You Can Do ..." by Gordon Randall Garrett

By this time the flames, which had been confined to half a dozen windows, were breaking out through the roof of the house. "Down South" by Oliver Optic

Usage in poetry
Oh, song worthy of noble grief...
Never rest! But with your twin,
Lamentation, sing out your suffering,
For time will be your consolation.
Oh, song worthy of noble grief...
Never rest! But with your twin,
Lamentation, sing out your suffering,
For time will be your consolation.
Grim time the fairest fame will flout,
But though his name be blotted out,
And he forgotten with his peers,
His stone may wear a year of years.
So perish the old Gods!
But out of the sea of Time
Rises a new land of song,
Fairer than the old.
Over its meadows green
Walk the young bards and sing.
So perish the old Gods!
But out of the sea of Time
Rises a new land of song,
Fairer than the old.
Over its meadows green
Walk the young bards and sing.
When a lad's been drummed out of the Army,
He's an outcast despised by all men;
I'd rather be shot at dawn any old time
'Cause I never get up before ten.