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call out (third-person singular simple present calls out, present participle calling out, simple past and past participle called out)

1. (transitive, idiomatic) To specify, especially in detail.

   They call out 304 stainless steel in the drawing, but the part was made from aluminum.

2. (transitive, idiomatic) To order into service; to summon into service.

   Synonym: summon

   The Governor called out the National Guard.

   • 1960 April, A. W. Bennett, “A Shedmaster's Day”, in Railway Magazine, page 272:

     The day of a shedmaster has no real beginning and end. He may leave for home when his work at the shed is done, but there is always the far-too-handy telephone to call him out to breakdowns or other emergencies.

   • 1984, Nena, 99 Red Balloons (lyrics written by Kevin McAlea)

     Ninety-nine Decision Street
     Ninety-nine ministers meet
     To worry, worry, super scurry
     Call the troops out in a hurry

3. (intransitive, transitive) To yell out; to vocalize audibly; announce.
   • 1971, Carole King, “You’ve Got A Friend”, Tapestry, Ode Records

     You just call out my name / And you know wherever I am / I'll come running to see you again.

4. To challenge (someone).
   1. (transitive, archaic) To challenge (someone) to a duel.
   2. (transitive, slang) To challenge (someone) to a fight.
   3. (transitive, idiomatic, colloquial) To criticize or denounce (someone); to bring up previously unspoken criticisms about (someone); to point out (someone's) faults.

      Synonyms: denounce, point out, charge

      He was very insulting. Finally Jack called him out and shut him up.

      She called them out on their lies.

      • 2019 October 30, “Obama calls out call-out culture: "That's not bringing about change"”, in CBS News‎, archived from the original on 28 February 2020:

        While former President Obama called out the call-out culture, former first lady Michelle Obama took white conservatives to task.

      • 2022 January 26, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Government's IRP claims condemned as "dishonest"”, in RAIL, number 949, page 7:

        He added: "We've always had spin, especially from Government. But this is not spin. This is dishonesty and so it's our rail media's urgent responsibility to call it out because non-specialist journalists across the country will report this and gradually these untruths will be accepted.

5. (intransitive, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut) To contact one's workplace and announce that one is unable to attend work. Regionalism short for call out sick; much more commonly: call in sick.
   • 2012, Earliecia J. Ebron, Regress:

     I had to call out from work. […] I barely ate yesterday. The only thing that stayed in my stomach was soup and crackers.

   • 2015, Brasford Love, My Life: The Journey to Here:

     I had to call out from work a few Saturdays to Dj at kid's party because they would normally start somewhere around 4:00 p.m.

   • 2015, Pearley Rufus-Lusan, The Baby Boomer Nurse:

     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.

使用する際の注意点

• Bus operators are said to "call out" a stop when they announce that it will be the next available stop; synonyms of call out are not typically used.

派生語

名詞

call out

1. Misspelling of callout.

参照

• “call out”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• Cotulla, outcall

発音

名詞

callout (plural callouts)

1. (communication) 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.

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

3. (US) 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. (slang) An invitation to fight.
5. A request for people to join or take part.
   • 2022, David Hendy, The BBC: A People's History:

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

6. (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.
   • 2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 64:

     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.
   • 2015, Pearley Rufus-Lusan, The Baby Boomer Nurse:

     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.

9. (idiomatic) A form of verbal abuse with the intention of making the victim feel guilty.
10. (programming) The invocation of an external third-party component.
    • 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.

派生語

• callout culture

アナグラム

• Cotulla, outcall