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Definition of Call attention
1. Verb. Point out carefully and clearly.
Generic synonyms: Designate, Indicate, Point, Show
Derivative terms: Signal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Call Attention
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, ..."