Callout vs Standby - What's the difference?
callout | standby |
(communication) Outward bound telephone calls.
(slang) An invitation to fight; the act of one child calling out another.
(typography, graphic layout) 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.
A summons to someone designated as being on call
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 marks.
State of readiness without being immediately involved.
(travel) Waiting at the airport in the hope of getting a seat on a flight that is already booked out.
Something that is standard, well-tested, or frequently used.
As nouns the difference between callout and standby
is that callout is outward bound telephone calls while standby is state of readiness without being immediately involved.As a verb standby is
wait briefly: an alternative spelling of nocap=1|lang=en.callout
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Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
*standby
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Alternative forms
* stand-byNoun
(en noun)- ''The troops were on standby in case of an attack.
- That recipe is an old standby , and she keeps the ingredients around in case of unexpected guests.
Verb
- Standby while I check that for you.
