Definition of "callout" in англійська

Noun

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.

   • 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. An invitation to fight.

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.

10. The invocation of an external third-party component.