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Meaning
Noun
●
In Communication:
An
outgoing
telephone
call.
●
An
instance
of being
summoned
to
visit
a certain place in order to provide
assistance
; an
instance
of
summoning
someone who is on call.
●
In American English:
A
meeting
or
rally
held
in order to find
interested
participants
, e.g. for an
activity
or
sports
team.
●
An
invitation
to fight.
●
A
request
for people to
join
or take part.
●
In Typography:
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.
●
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
mark
s.
●
The
act
of
calling out
from work, i.e.
announcing
that one
cannot
attend
; the
act
of
calling in
sick.
●
A form of
verbal
abuse
with the
intention
to make the
victim
feel guilty.
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