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plural callouts
(communication) An outgoing telephone call. examples
An instance of being summoned to visit a certain place in order to provide assistance; an instance of summoning someone who is on call. examples
(US) A meeting or rally held in order to find interested participants, e.g. for an activity or sports team. examples
(slang) An invitation to fight.
A request for people to join or take part. quotations examples
[…] a callout for volunteers to fill hundreds of sandbags.
2022, David Hendy, The BBC: A People's History
(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. quotations examples
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.
2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 64
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. examples
The act of calling out from work, i.e. announcing that one cannot attend; the act of calling in sick. quotations examples
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.
2015, Pearley Rufus-Lusan, The Baby Boomer Nurse
(idiomatic) A form of verbal abuse with the intention to make the victim feel guilty. examples