call out

verb

Meaning

To specify, especially in detail.
To order into service; to summon into service.
To yell out; to vocalize audibly; announce.
To challenge, criticize, denounce.
(New Jersey, New York, Connecticut) To contact one's workplace and announce that one is unable to attend work. Regionalism short for call out sick; much more commonly: call in sick.
(communication) An outgoing telephone call.
An invitation to fight; the act of one child calling out another.
(graphic layout) 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.
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.

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