callout

English

noun
Definitions
  • (communication) An outgoing telephone call.
  • (slang) An invitation to fight; the act of one child calling out another.
  • (typography) A pull quote: an excerpt from an article (such as in a news magazine) that is duplicated in a large font alongside the article so as to grab a reader's attention and indicate the article's topic.
  • A summons to someone designated as being on call.
  • (US) A meeting or rally held in order to find interested participants, e.g. for an activity or sports team.
  • An annotation that pertains to a specific location in a body of text or a graphic, and that is visually linked to that location by a mark or a matching pair of marks.
  • The act of call calling out from work, i.e. announcing that one cannot attend.

Etymology

Compound from English call + English out (surpassing, beyond, outward, away from).

Origin

English

out

Gloss

surpassing, beyond, outward, away from

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