Meaning of callout | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An 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.
3. A meeting or rally held in order to find interested participants, e.g. for an activity or sports team.
   US
4. An invitation to fight.
   slang
5. A request for people to join or take part.
6. 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.
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.
9. A form of verbal abuse with the intention of making the victim feel guilty.
   idiomatic
10. The invocation of an external third-party component.

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Examples

“I had to pay⟳ for the callout of the plumber after the pipe burst⟳.”

“So many people attended the basketball callout that the coach decided to form⟳ two teams.”

“[…] a callout for volunteers to fill⟳ hundreds of sandbags.”

“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.”

“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.”

“2011, Wes Nolte, Jeff Douglas, Salesforce Handbook (page 300)”

“One of the great benefits is that it allows you to perform⟳ callouts during trigger executions.”

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