callout

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. US
    — So many people attended the basketball callout that the coach decided to form two teams.
  4. An invitation to fight. slang
  5. A request for people to join or take part.
    — […] a callout for volunteers to fill hundreds of sandbags.
  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.
    — 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.
  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.
    — 2011, Wes Nolte, Jeff Douglas, Salesforce Handbook (page 300)

词形变化

callouts plural

词汇关系

衍生词
callout culture

词源

Etymology tree
English call outdeverb.
English callout
Deverbal from call out.
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