callout
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.25 in modern English
Meaning
noun
noun
An instance of being summoned to visit a certain place in order to provide assistance; an instance of summoning someone who is on call.
noun
A meeting or rally held in order to find interested participants, e.g. for an activity or sports team.
American usage
noun
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.
noun
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.
noun
The act of calling out from work, i.e. announcing that one cannot attend; the act of calling in sick.
Example Sentences
- "I had to pay for the callout of the plumber after the pipe burst."
- "So many people attended the basketball callout that the coach decided to form two teams."
- "[…] a callout for volunteers to fill hundreds of sandbags."
- "Ancient Egypt: Civilization in northeastern Africa that gives reference volumes a chance to change up the pace a little and break up the monotonous, text-heavy format with more graphical elements, timelines, and a few callout boxes."
- "On this particular day, I felt ill, mostly from exhaustion, and had to call out from work. This callout caused a stir and a display of animosity."
- "2011, Wes Nolte, Jeff Douglas, Salesforce Handbook (page 300)"