Callback

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act or an instance of calling back from one location or situation to the previous one: a callback of laid-off auto workers.
  • n. A return telephone or radio call.
  • n. A recall of a recently sold product by the manufacturer to correct a defect.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The return of a situation to a previous position or state.
  • n. A return telephone or radio call; especially one made automatically to authenticate a logon to a computer network
  • n. A product recall because of a defect or safety concern.
  • n. A function pointer passed to another function that the latter can call for notification purposes.
  • n. a follow-up audition (casting)
  • n. a joke which references an earlier joke in the same routine
  • Word Usage
    "Your callback will be used within the main form, so you must not include any tags or a form submit button. register_widget_control ($name, $callback [, $width [, $height]]);"
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    call    send for    respond    answer    reply   
    Hyponym
    recognise    brush up    recognize    know    refresh   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts