callout
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English
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[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
[edit]callout (plural callouts)
- (communication) An outgoing telephone call.
- An instance of being summoned to visit a certain place in order to provide assistance; an instance of summoning someone who is on call.
- I had to pay for the callout of the plumber after the pipe burst.
- (US) A meeting or rally held in order to find interested participants, e.g. for an activity or sports team.
- So many people attended the basketball callout that the coach decided to form two teams.
- (slang) An invitation to fight.
- A request for people to join or take part.
- 2022, David Hendy, The BBC: A People's History:
- […] a callout for volunteers to fill hundreds of sandbags.
- (typography, 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.
- 2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 64:
- 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.
- 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; the act of calling in sick.
- 2015, Pearley Rufus-Lusan, The Baby Boomer Nurse:
- 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.
- (idiomatic) A form of verbal abuse with the intention of making the victim feel guilty.
- (programming) The invocation of an external third-party component.
- 2011, Wes Nolte, Jeff Douglas, Salesforce Handbook (page 300)
- One of the great benefits is that it allows you to perform callouts during trigger executions.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]outward bound telephone calls
(slang) an invitation to fight
summons
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