call out

[Offroad]

Dear teachers...

Is 'call out' synonym with 'send for'?

• Call him out and have the headsman to kill him.
• Send for him and have the hitman to put a quick end to his life.

Am I right in this interpretation?

Father, did you send for me? (Somebody was sent in to bring me to my father?)
Father, did you call me out? (My father himself gave me a can't-miss call)

to call out = send for, evoke, summon, call forth.


Many thanks

[Raymott]

Dear teachers...

Is 'call out' synonym with 'send for'?

• Call him out and have the headsman to kill him.
• Send for him and have the hitman to put a quick end to his life.

Am I right in this interpretation?

Father, did you send for me? (Somebody was sent in to bring me to my father?)
Father, did you call me out? (My father himself gave me a can't-miss call)

to call out = send for, evoke, summon, call forth.


Many thanks

It's not colloquial where I come from.
But if someone said, "I can't fix this pipe; it's time to call out the plumber", I'd understand the meaning.

[BobK]

Strangely - though it wouldn't fit in the OP's context, although that does involve someone dying - 'call out' used to be synonymous with 'challenge to a duel'. But I've never known that version used - except in historical novels:

"She wondered whether the noble D'Arcy would call out the dastardly Wickham."

b

PS The D'Arcy/Wickham duel didn't happen, but you get the idea.

[Offroad]

Their meanings is clear now, Gentlemen. Thank you!