callout

  1. Noun.  (communication) Outward bound telephone calls.
  2. Noun.  (slang) An invitation to fight; the act of one child calling out another.
  3. Noun.  (typography, graphic layout) 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.
  4. Noun.  A summons to someone designated as being on call.
  5. Noun.  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.

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