Call Out

Definition: Call Out

Call Out

Verb

1. 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".

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

3. Challenge to a duel; "D'Artignan called out Pushkin".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Call Out

Defiance

Challenge, call out; throw down the gauntlet, fling down the gauntlet, fling down the gage, fling down the glove, throw down the glove.

Crosswords: Call Out

I'm going to call out the scientific council. (Hollow Man; writing credit: Gary Scott Thompson; Andrew W. Marlowe)

Call out the Marines, I think! (The Harlem Globetrotters; writing credit: Tom Dagenais; Woody Kling)

Gonna call out to these embers (Shine; performing artist: Cyndi Lauper)

Call out the guards, turn out the light (I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That; performing artist: Elton John)

You just call out my name and you know wherever I am (You've Got A Friend; performing artist: James Taylor)

Should I call out to angels, (Until I Find You Again; performing artist: Richard Marx)

Call Out the Marines (1942)

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Books

• Call Out the Guard (reference)

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I wouldn't call out, Mr. Cardew, said a cold voice, I have my left hand on a revolver. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Expressions using "call out": call out for ♦ call out the stops ♦ To call out. Additional references.

Albanian

thërres (ask, bawl, call, call up, conjure, convene, convoke, cry, exclaim, give a cry, hail, holler, invite, shout, sing out, summon, vociferate, wawl, whoop), thërras (ask, bawl, call, call up, conjure, convene, convoke, cry, drum up, exclaim, hail, holler, invite, obtest, page, shout, sing out, summon, vociferate, wawl, whoop), ftoj në grevë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏نادى (call, call for, club, cry, hail, page, proclaim, sing), ‏صاح (bawl, call, clear, crow, cry, holler, hoot, scream, shout, sing out, squall, squawk, squeal, vociferate), ‏صرخ (call, clamor, clamour, cry, exclaim, holler, make noise, outcry, pop off, scream, shout, shriek, squawk, squeak, yell). (various references)

Bulgarian 

призовавам (appeal, call down, call on, conjure, exhort, invoke, summon), повиквам (beckon, call, call away, call in, call up, convene, send for, summon), извиквам на дуел, извиквам (call in, cry out, evoke, exclaim, give a cry, hail, shout, shout for, yell). (various references)

Chinese 

�'� (jeer), 呼喚 (shout). (various references)

Czech

zavolat (call, call up, hail, ring, ring up, send for, summon), vyvolávat (call over, give rise to, revive), vykřiknout (cry out, ejaculate, exclaim, give a cry, utter, yell), povolat do stávky, přivolat (call, call in, call up, hail, ring up, summon). (various references)

Dutch

uitroepen (despairingly), uitkraaien, uitkermen, een kreet slaken. (various references)

Esperanto

ekkrii. (various references)

Finnish

huudahtaa (cry out, exclaim). (various references)

French

pousser des cris, héler (call). (various references)

German

rufen (bleeding, call, calls, cry, hail, hoot, scream out, send for, shout, sound, summon, to call, to shout), ausrufen (call, cry out, ejaculate, evoke, exclaim, issue, proclaim, sing out, to evoke, to exclaim). (various references)

Greek 

προκαλώ (beget, bring about, bring on, call forth, cause, challenge, dare, defy, engender, evoke, fetch, give rise to, induce, provoke), φωνάζω (bawl, call, caterwaul, clamor, clamour, cry, halloo, holler, hollo, scream, shout, shout to, squawk, yawp, yell). (various references)

Hungarian

odakiált vkinek (to call out to sy), kivezényli a katonaságot (to call out the troops), kiált vmiért (to call for, to call out for sg). (various references)

Italian

annunciare (advertise, announce, broach, call, communicate, enounce, give, give notice, Herald, intimate, post, report). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

誘う (to ask, to call, to call out, to induce, to invite, to lure, to tempt), 誘い�'かける (to call out, to invite), 召し出す (to call out, to summon), 召し上�'る (to call out, to confiscate, to forfeit), 声�'掛ける (to call out to someone, to greet), 声�'かける (to call out to someone, to greet), 呼び立てる (to ask someone to come, to call out), 呼び掛ける (to accost, to address, to appeal, to call out to), 呼び回る (to call out), 呼び上�'る (to call out), 呼ぶ　 (to call out, to invite), 呼ぶ (to call out, to invite). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さそう (to call out, to invite), さそい�'かける (to call out, to invite), �"え�'かける (to call out to someone, to greet), めしあ�'る (to call out, to confiscate, to forfeit), めし� す (to call out, to summon), よびたてる (to ask someone to come, to call out), よびまわる (to call out), よびかける (to accost, to address, to appeal, to call out to), よびあ�'る (to call out), よぶ (to call out, to invite). (various references)

Pig Latin

allcay outay

Portuguese

gritar (bawl, call, clamor, clamour, cry, cry out, hoot, howl, scream, shout, sing out, vociferate, waul, whoop, yawl, yell), bradar (cry out, scream, shout, sing out). (various references)

Romanian

chema sub arme (muster in), chema la grevã, vorbi tare (bluster, mouth), striga (bark out, bawl, bellow, brawl, break, call, clamor, clamour, cry, cry cherries, cry out, ejaculate, hail, hallo, halloo, hollo, hoop, howl, page, roar, scream, screech, shout, shriek, shriek out, squall, vociferate, yell), provoca la duel. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uskliknuti, dobacivati (bandy, throw toward). (various references)

Spanish

llamar a la huelga, gritar (bark, bawl, bawl out, bellow, break out, call, chant, clamor, clamour, cry, cry out, faggot, fagot, halloo, holler, hoot, howl, outcry, scold, scream, shout, shout out, shriek, shrill out, sing out, to shout, whoop, yell), dar voces (call, term, yell). (various references)

Swedish

uppbåda (mobilize, muster, summon, summon to arms), ropa (call, clamor, clamour, cry, cuckoo, halloo, holler, hoot, shout, summon, vociferate). (various references)

Turkish

greve çağırmak, göreve çağırmak, düelloya davet etmek (challenge, fling down the gauntlet, fling down the glove, throw down the glove), bağırarak söylemek (scream out, shout, shout out, spit out, squall out). (various references)

Ukrainian

сигнал-відповідь. (various references)

exclama, exclamabilis, exclamans, exclamantes, exclamaverunt, exclamavit, exclamavitque. (various references)

clipian. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: allot, atoll, clout, local, octal.

-3 letters: alto, auto, call, calo, caul, clot, coal, coat, cola, colt, cull, cult, loca, lota, lout, olla, taco, talc, tall, tola, toll, tolu.

-4 letters: act, all, alt, cat, col, cot, cut, lac, lat, lot, oat, oca, out, tao, tau, uta.

-5 letters: al, at, la, lo, ta, to, ut.

+1 letter: loculate, locustal.

+2 letters: ultracold, ultracool.

+3 letters: allocution, altocumuli, calculator, eucalyptol, flocculant, flocculate, leucoplast, multifocal.

+4 letters: allocutions, altocumulus, calculation, calculators, conflictual, continually, cupellation, eucalyptole, eucalyptols, flocculants, flocculated, flocculates, flocculator, leucoplasts, nocturnally, noncultural, outcavilled, unallocated, unpolitical.

+5 letters: acoustically, calamitously, calculations, conceptually, connaturally, contextually, conventually, counterrally, cupellations, eucalyptoles, flocculating, flocculation, flocculators, functionally, hallucinator, monocultural, neurotically, outcavilling, quixotically, tautological.