Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An order or telephone call summoning a military unit, the police, or an emergency crew to a specified place.
- noun A distinct area of text separated from the main text of a document to emphasize items of noteworthy attention.
- noun An item, as in a list, included in such an area or otherwise identified as noteworthy.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
call out . - noun A
caption orlabel
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- noun a challenge to a fight or duel
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Examples
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TheNRA membership and staff have a high proportion of military veterans, and at any convention event, a call-out to the active duty soldiers typically leads to a standing ovation.
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She has a "new money" kind of appeal, performed competently in the CSI challenge, won the reward challenge for her Greek blog post and earned a first call-out for her Express campaign as "The Socialite."
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Even a brief call-out from the president can be an important advantage in the contest for increasingly scarce federal dollars.
Interest groups vie for a moment of Obama's time in State of the Union address Peter Wallsten 2011
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Should he have had to call out a special call-out unit to have him recovered and then have his boots changed in a special facility? on February 5, 2010 at 9: 57 am Interested
It’s A Car Tyre – I Can Manage – Go Away! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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Even a brief call-out from the president can be an important advantage in the contest for increasingly scarce federal dollars.
Interest groups vie for a moment of Obama's time in State of the Union address Peter Wallsten 2011
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A tan was a dead call-out that instead of lounging on sedans and munching on puff pastries, you'd been out working the fields all day, you pauper, you.
Verena von Pfetten: Tan Is The New Tacky Verena von Pfetten 2010
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Among the couple's claims on the London property, the paper adds, were a £50 call-out fee for fixing the sound on a home cinema system.
For Foulkes Sake - step forward The Red Baron Alan Smart 2009
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Among the couple's claims on the London property, the paper adds, were a £50 call-out fee for fixing the sound on a home cinema system.
This is What the SNP should have done in tonight's PPB Alan Smart 2009
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Alright -- it's time for an "offensive nomenclature call-out" moment.
Katherine Franke: Enough Already With "Love Child," "Illegitimate," and "Out-of-Wedlock" Katherine Franke 2011
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Even a brief call-out from the president can be an important advantage in the contest for increasingly scarce federal dollars.
Interest groups vie for a moment of Obama's time in State of the Union address Peter Wallsten 2011
ecbrenner commented on the word call-out
Also, a quote pulled out of the text and graphically enhanced to draw the reader's attention to it. A pull quote.
November 13, 2009