takeout

adj : of or involving food to be taken and eaten off the premises;

"takeout pizza"; "the takeout counter" (`take-away' is

chiefly British) [syn: {take-away}]

n 1: food that is intended to be eaten off of the premises [syn:

{takeout food}]

2: (bridge) a bid that asks your partner to bid another suit

timeout

A period of time after which an error condition is raised if

some event has not occured. A common example is sending a

message. If the receiver does not acknowledge the message

within some preset timeout period, a transmission error is

assumed to have occured.

(1995-11-09)