Definition of Call attention

1. Verb. Point out carefully and clearly.

Exact synonyms: Point Out, Signalise, Signalize
Generic synonyms: Designate, Indicate, Point, Show
Derivative terms: Signal

Lexicographical Neighbors of Call Attention

call-boy
call-by-future
call-by-name
call-by-need
call-by-reference
call-by-value
call-in
call-in show
call-out
call-outs
call-up
call 'em as one sees 'em
call a spade a spade
call an ambulance
call at
call attention (current term)
call back
call box
call boy
call boys
call center
call centers
call centre
call centres
call collect
call date
call dates
call delay
call down
call drink

Literary usage of Call attention

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"The objects of the present note are to call attention to this interesting problem and to present a few facts which seem to throw some light on it. ..."

2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1866)
"It may be well to call attention at the present time to the existence of a fine portrait of this celerated Reformer, by Sir Antonio-a-More, in the Rectory ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"We shall call attention here only to the best-known specimen that lias been preserved, ... call attention ..."

4. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"to call attention to its destructive influence, its brief technical description will not be out of place : " Pileus fleshy, firm, convex, or expanded, ..."

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