call out
verb- To specify, especially in detail. · They call out 304 stainless steel in the drawing, but the part was made from aluminum.
- To order into service; to summon into service. · The Governor called out the National Guard.
- To yell out; to vocalize audibly; announce.
- To challenge (someone) to a fight.
- To criticize or denounce (someone); to bring up previously unspoken criticisms about (someone); to point out (someone's) faults. · He was very insulting. Finally Jack called him out and shut him up.· She called them out on their lies.
- To contact one's workplace and announce that one is unable to attend work. Regionalism short for call out sick; much more commonly: call in sick.
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_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,--
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