callout

calloutnoun

• 1

  communicationcommunicationsAn outgoing telephone call.

• 2

  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.
• 3

  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.
• 4

  slangAn invitation to fight.

• 5

  A request for people to join or take part.

  • […] a callout for volunteers to fill hundreds of sandbags.
• 6

  mediapublishingtypographyA 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.

  • 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.
• 7

  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.

• 8

  The act of calling out from work, i.e. announcing that one cannot attend; the act of calling in sick.

  • 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.