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CALL OUT
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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
