CALL ATTENTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does call attention mean? 

• CALL ATTENTION (verb)
  The verb CALL ATTENTION has 1 sense:

1. point out carefully and clearly

  Familiarity information: CALL ATTENTION used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALL ATTENTION (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Point out carefully and clearly

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

call attention; point out; signalise; signalize

Hypernyms (to "call attention" is one way to...):

designate; indicate; point; show (indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

Norbury, a lean, silent man, had been to those parts before, and sat his horse with a rigid neck; but the two young squires gazed eagerly to right or left, and plucked each other's sleeves to call attention to the many strange things on every side of them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)