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callout

Noun

Meaning

(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.

(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.

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.

(idiomatic) A form of verbal abuse with the intention to make the victim feel guilty.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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And 3) the eye was more likely to see the callout if we interrupted the scanline. Source: Internet

While the redesign ultimately aims to bring national uniformity to the look and feel of stores, local touches will also be included, such as a callout to Elm Springs, Arkansas, in the cart corral area of the store there, where the redesign was tested. Source: Internet

Also, by moving the callout below the first part of the form suggests “signing in” is the second step after filling in your name and email. Source: Internet

"hide-for-large primary"This callout will only appear on small screens." Source: Internet

Perhaps to justify that choice, a callout quotes Atwood’s review, “Some may look skeptically at ‘horror’ as a genre, but it’s one of the most literary of all forms.” Source: Internet

She ended the post with one last callout, writing, "Feel good and manly about your M.O., Sacha? Source: Internet

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