CALL OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does call out mean? 

• CALL OUT (verb)
  The verb CALL OUT has 3 senses:

1. utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy

2. call out loudly, as of names or numbers

3. challenge to a duel

  Familiarity information: CALL OUT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALL OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

call out; cry; cry out; exclaim; outcry; shout

Context example:

'I'm here,' the mother shouted when she saw her child looking lost

Hypernyms (to "call out" is one way to...):

express; give tongue to; utter; verbalise; verbalize (articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise)

Verb group:

call; cry; holler; hollo; scream; shout; shout out; squall; yell (utter a sudden loud cry)

call out (call out loudly, as of names or numbers)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "call out"):

gee (give a command to a horse to turn to the right side)

aah; ooh (express admiration and pleasure by uttering 'ooh' or 'aah')

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sentence example:

They call out that there was a traffic accident

Sense 2

Meaning:

Call out loudly, as of names or numbers

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "call out" is one way to...):

announce; denote (make known; make an announcement)

Verb group:

call out; cry; cry out; exclaim; outcry; shout (utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "call out"):

count off (call in turn from right to left or from back to front numbers that determine some position or function)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Challenge to a duel

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

Aaron Burr called out Alexander Hamilton

Hypernyms (to "call out" is one way to...):

challenge (issue a challenge to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

call-out (a challenge to a fight or duel)

 Context examples 

If I want anything I shall call out, and you can come to me at once.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Again I strove to call out, but made no sound.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I ran after him as fast as I could, but I had no breath to call out with, and should not have dared to call out, now, if I had.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Out of my window as I write I can see my own great lad in the garden, and if I were to call out “Nelson!” you would see that I have been true to the traditions of our family.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Amy was on the point of crying, but Laurie slyly pulled the parrot's tail, which caused Polly to utter an astonished croak and call out, Bless my boots! in such a funny way, that she laughed instead.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

His eyes had been soon and repeatedly turned towards them with a look of curiosity; and that her ladyship, after a while, shared the feeling, was more openly acknowledged, for she did not scruple to call out: What is that you are saying, Fitzwilliam?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I got up and looked out, and He raised his hands, and seemed to call out without using any words.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She courted Jip, though Jip never responded; listened, day after day, to the guitar, though I am afraid she had no taste for music; never attacked the Incapables, though the temptation must have been severe; went wonderful distances on foot to purchase, as surprises, any trifles that she found out Dora wanted; and never came in by the garden, and missed her from the room, but she would call out, at the foot of the stairs, in a voice that sounded cheerfully all over the house: Where's Little Blossom?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)