callout (English, noun)
expansion: callout (plural callouts)
Senses:
topics: communication
communications
glosses: An outgoing telephone call.
glosses: An instance of being summoned to visit a certain place in order to provide assistance; an instance of summoning someone who is on call.
glosses: A meeting or rally held in order to find interested participants, e.g. for an activity or sports team.
tags: US
glosses: An invitation to fight.
tags: slang
glosses: A request for people to join or take part.
topics: media
publishing
typography
qualifier: graphic layout
glosses: 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.
glosses: 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.
glosses: The act of calling out from work, i.e. announcing that one cannot attend; the act of calling in sick.
glosses: A form of verbal abuse with the intention of making the victim feel guilty.
tags: idiomatic
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The invocation of an external third-party component.
Forms:
form: callouts
tags: plural