callout

Meaning

Noun

• An outgoing telephone call.
• An invitation to fight; the act of one child calling out another.
• 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.
• The act of calling out from work, i.e. announcing that one cannot attend.
• A form of verbal abuse with the intention to make the victim feel guilty.

Origin

• call + out