different between callout vs caption

English

Etymology

call +? out

Pronunciation

Noun

callout (plural callouts)

1. (communication) An outgoing telephone call.
2. (slang) An invitation to fight; the act of one child calling out another.
3. (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.
4. A summons to someone designated as being on call.

5. (US) A meeting or rally held in order to find interested participants, e.g. for an activity or sports team.

6. 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.
7. The act of calling out from work, i.e. announcing that one cannot attend.
   • 2015, Pearley Rufus-Lusan, The Baby Boomer Nurse

     On this particular day, I felt ill, mostly from exhaustion, and had to call out from work. This callout caused a stir and a display of animosity.

Derived terms

• callout culture

Translations

Anagrams

• Cotulla, outcall

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin capti?, from the past participle of capi? (“I take, I seize”) (English capture). Compare Middle English capcioun (“seizure, capture”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæp.??n/

Noun

caption (plural captions)

1. (typography) The descriptive heading or title of a document or part thereof
2. A title or brief explanation attached to an illustration, cartoon, user interface element, etc.
3. (cinematography) A piece of text appearing on screen as subtitle or other part of a film or broadcast.
4. (law) The section on an official paper that describes when, where, what was taken, found or executed, and by whom it was authorized.
5. (obsolete, law) A seizure or capture, especially of tangible property (chattel).
   • 1919 Thomas Welburn Hughes. A treatise on criminal law and procedure. The Bobbs-Merril Co., Indianapolis, IN, USA. Sec. 557 (p. 378).

     The caption and asportation must be felonious.

Usage notes

In film and video, captions may transcribe or describe all significant dialogue and sound for viewers who cannot hear it, while subtitles translate foreign-language dialogue.

Derived terms

• captionable, captioned, captioner, captioning
• (film) closed caption, closed-caption, closed captions, closed captioned, closed-captioned, close captioned, close-captioned, closed captioning, closed-captioning
• (film) open caption, open-caption, open captions
• (film) real time caption, real-time caption, real time captioning, real-time captioning

Related terms

• captious
• captivate
• captive
• capture

Translations

Verb

caption (third-person singular simple present captions, present participle captioning, simple past and past participle captioned)

1. To add captions to a text or illustration.

   Only once the drawing is done will the letterer caption it.

2. To add captions to a film or broadcast.

Translations

Anagrams

• Pontiac, anticop, paction