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CALL OUT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Challenge to a duel

Example:

Aaron Burr called out Alexander Hamilton

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy

Example:

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

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

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 3

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

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