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call out in WordNet English dictionary

verb
  1. call out loudly, as of names or numbers
    call out 
  2. utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy
    "`I won!' he exclaimed"; "`Help!' she cried"; "`I'm here,' the mother shouted when she saw her child looking lost"
    exclaim  cry  cry out  outcry  call out  shout 
  3. challenge to a duel
    "Aaron Burr called out Alexander Hamilton"
    call out 
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University


call out in English Wiktionary

 
  1. (verb) (transitive/idiom) To specify, especially in detail.
  2. (verb) (transitive/idiom) To order into service; to summon into service.
  3. (verb) (intransitive/transitive) To yell out; to vocalize audibly; announce.
  4. (verb) (rfd-sense/SoP and not limited to professionals, also works with call and other adverbs: "in", "over") To arrange for a professional to call at your home for some purpose.
  5. (verb) (rfv-sense) (intransitive) To be absent from somewhere.
  6. (verb) (rfv-sense) (transitive) To prove wrong.
  7. (verb) (rfv-sense) (transitive/idiom) To bring particular attention to.
  8. (verb) (transitive/idiom/colloquial) To challenge.
  9. (noun) A incidence of someone being called out for some purpose.
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