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Definition of Call out

1. Verb. Utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy. "They call out that there was a traffic accident "; "`I'm here,' the mother shouted when she saw her child looking lost"

2. Verb. Call out loudly, as of names or numbers.

3. Verb. Challenge to a duel. "Aaron Burr called out Alexander Hamilton"

Definition of Call out

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

2. Verb. (transitive idiomatic) To order into service; to summon into service. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive transitive) To yell out; to vocalize audibly; announce. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive idiomatic colloquial) To challenge, to denounce. ¹

5. Noun. (British) An incidence of someone being summoned for some purpose. ¹

6. Noun. (American English) A meeting or rally held in order to find interested participants, eg. for an activity or sports team. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Call Out

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call on the carpet call one's bluff call option call originator call out (current term) call outs call premium call screening call sign call signs

call someone's bluff call stack call stacks call the ball call the police call the shots call the tune call them as one sees them call to account

Literary usage of Call out

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

1. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, James Hammond Trumbull, Charles Jeremy Hoadly, Council of Safety (Conn.). (1874)
"... on such terms as they think best: but if said Assembly be not satisfy'd as to the value of said land, then the memorialist prays liberty to call out the ..."

2. History of the World War by Frank Herbert Simonds (1917)
"Transform industries, call out men, call in women. Pity to have overlooked it before. Half a year has been lost—or was it a year—or was it more ? ..."

3. Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York, 1777-1795, 1801 by George Clinton, Hugh Hastings, James Austin Holden, New York (State). State Historian (1900)
"... to all such militia as his Excellency the Governor shall think proper to call out in Consequence of the above requisitions. Extract from the minutes. ..."

4. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1858)
"... call out too many proofs. DEAR SIR: APPENDIX NO. XXV.—VOL. III., p. 366. Governor Colei Vieil to Mr. Adams. ..."

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