CALL

call

(noun) (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee; “he was ejected for protesting the call”

call

(noun) a visit in an official or professional capacity; “the pastor’s calls on his parishioners”; “the salesman’s call on a customer”

call

(noun) a brief social visit; “senior professors’ wives no longer make afternoon calls on newcomers”; “the characters in Henry James’ novels are forever paying calls on each other, usually in the parlor of some residence”

Call

(noun) a special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course; “he was disappointed that he had not heard the Call”

call, phone call, telephone call

(noun) a telephone connection; “she reported several anonymous calls”; “he placed a phone call to London”; “he heard the phone ringing but didn’t want to take the call”

call

(noun) an instruction that interrupts the program being executed; “Pascal performs calls by simply giving the name of the routine to be executed”

birdcall, call, birdsong, song

(noun) the characteristic sound produced by a bird; “a bird will not learn its song unless it hears it at an early age”

cry, outcry, call, yell, shout, vociferation

(noun) a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition; “the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience”

call

(noun) a request; “many calls for Christmas stories”; “not many calls for buggywhips”

call, claim

(noun) a demand especially in the phrase “the call of duty”

call

(noun) a demand for a show of hands in a card game; “after two raises there was a call”

call

(verb) rouse somebody from sleep with a call; “I was called at 5 A.M. this morning”

call

(verb) consider or regard as being; “I would not call her beautiful”

call

(verb) challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of; “call the speaker on a question of fact”

call, telephone, call up, phone, ring

(verb) get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone; “I tried to call you all night”; “Take two aspirin and call me in the morning”

call, send for

(verb) order, request, or command to come; “She was called into the director’s office”; “Call the police!”

call

(verb) declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee; “call a runner out”

call

(verb) challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense; “He deserves to be called on that”

shout, shout out, cry, call, yell, scream, holler, hollo, squall

(verb) utter a sudden loud cry; “she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle”; “I yelled to her from the window but she couldn’t hear me”

predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise

(verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance; “Call the outcome of an election”

call

(verb) ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality; “He called me a bastard”; “She called her children lazy and ungrateful”

call

(verb) utter a characteristic note or cry; “bluejays called to one another”

name, call, know as, be known as

(verb) assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to; “They named their son David”; “The new school was named after the famous Civil Rights leader”

call

(verb) send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc.; make a signal to in order to transmit a message; “Hawaii is calling!”; “A transmitter in Samoa was heard calling”

call

(verb) indicate a decision in regard to; “call balls and strikes behind the plate”

call, call off

(verb) give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance

bid, call

(verb) make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands; “He called his trump”

call, call in

(verb) demand payment of (a loan); “Call a loan”

call

(verb) call a meeting; invite or command to meet; “The Wannsee Conference was called to discuss the ‘Final Solution’”; “The new dean calls meetings every week”

visit, call in, call

(verb) pay a brief visit; “The mayor likes to call on some of the prominent citizens”

address, call

(verb) greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name; “He always addresses me with ‘Sir’”; “Call me Mister”; “She calls him by first name”

call

(verb) stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather; “call a football game”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Proper noun

Call

A surname.

Noun

CALL (uncountable)

Initialism of computer-assisted language learning.

Etymology

Noun

call (plural calls)

A telephone conversation.

A short visit, usually for social purposes.

(nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.

A cry or shout.

A decision or judgement.

The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.

A beckoning or summoning.

The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.

(finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.

(cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.

(cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)

A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).

(computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.

A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.

(poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.

A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.

(nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.

A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.

An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.

(archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.

(US, legal) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc, on the land.

(informal, slang, prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.

Hyponyms

(Hyponyms of call (noun)):

• altar call

• bird call

• booty call

• broker's call

• bugle call

• calendar call

• cat call

• cold call

• collect call

• conference call

• courtesy call

• crank call

• curtain call

• distress call

• forecall

• function call

• house call

• mail call

• margin call

• missed call

• money call

• naked call

• nuisance call

• phone call

• prank call

• put-call

• self-call

• service call

• sick call

• roll call

• tail call

• telephone call

• toll call

• uncovered call

• wake-up call

Verb

call (third-person singular simple present calls, present participle calling, simple past and past participle call'd or called)

(heading) To use one's voice.

(intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon.

(intransitive) To cry or shout.

(transitive) To utter in a loud or distinct voice.

(transitive, intransitive) To contact by telephone.

(transitive) To declare in advance.

To rouse from sleep; to awaken.

To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.

(heading, intransitive) To visit.

To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).

To stop at a station or port.

(heading) To name, identify or describe.

(ditransitive) To name or refer to.

(in passive) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.

(transitive) To predict.

To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.

(obsolete) To disclose the class or character of; to identify.

(heading, sport) Direct or indirect use of the voice.

(cricket) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.

(baseball, cricket) (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).

(intransitive, poker) To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.

(intransitive, poker, proscribed) To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.)

(transitive) To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.

(transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.

(transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.

(transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.

(transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.

Synonyms

• (cry or shout): holler, yell; see also shout

• (contact by telephone): drop a line, ring; see also telephone

• (rouse from sleep): wake up; see also awaken

• (name or refer to): designate, dub, name; see also denominate

• (predict): augur, foretell; see also predict

Source: Wiktionary

Call, v. i. [imp.& p. p. Called; p. r. & vb. n. Calling] Etym: [OE. callen, AS. ceallin; akin to Icel & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen to talk, prate, Gr. gar to praise. Cf. Garrulous.]

1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain Shak.

2. To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious character; -- often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church. Paul . . . called to be an apostle Rom. i. 1. The Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. Acts xiii. 2.

3. To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with together; as, the President called Congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen. Now call we our high court of Parliament. Shak.

4. To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name. If you would but call me Rosalind. Shak. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. Gen. i. 5.

5. To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate. What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. Acts x. 15.

6. To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work. [The] army is called seven hundred thousand men. Brougham.

7. To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of. [Obs.] This speech calls him Spaniard. Beau. & Fl.

8. To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off; as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a military company. No parish clerk who calls the psalm so clear. Gay.

9. To invoke; to appeal to. I call God for a witness. 2 Cor. i. 23 [Rev. Ver. ]

10. To rouse from sleep; to awaken. If thou canst awake by four o' the clock. I prithee call me. Sleep hath seized me wholly. Shak. To call a bond, to give notice that the amount of the bond will be paid.

– To call a party (Law), to cry aloud his name in open court, and command him to come in and perform some duty requiring his presence at the time on pain of what may befall him.

– To call back, to revoke or retract; to recall; to summon back.

– To call down, to pray for, as blessing or curses.

– To call forth, to bring or summon to action; as, to call forth all the faculties of the mind.

– To call in, (a) To collect; as, to call in debts or money; ar to withdraw from cirulation; as, to call in uncurrent coin. (b) To summon to one's side; to invite to come together; as, to call in neighbors.

– To call (any one) names, to apply contemptuous names (to any one).

– To call off, to summon away; to divert; as, to call off the attention; to call off workmen from their employment.

– To call out. (a) To summon to fight; to challenge. (b) To summon into service; as, to call out the militia.

– To call over, to recite separate particulars in order, as a roll of names.

– To call to account, to demand explanation of.

– To call to mind, to recollect; to revive in memory.

– To call to order, to request to come to order; as: (a) A public meeting, when opening it for business. (b) A person, when he is transgressing the rules of debate.

– To call to the bar, to admit to practice in courts of law.

– To call up. (a) To bring into view or recollection; as to call up the image of deceased friend. (b) To bring into action or discussion; to demand the consideration of; as, to call up a bill before a legislative body.

Syn.

– To name; denominate; invite; bid; summon; convoke; assemble; collect; exhort; warn; proclaim; invoke; appeal to; designate. To Call, Convoke, Summon. Call is the generic term; as, to call a public meeting. To convoke is to require the assembling of some organized body of men by an act of authority; as, the king convoked Parliament. To summon is to require attendance by an act more or less stringent anthority; as, to summon a witness.

Call, v. i.

1. To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; -- sometimes with to. You must call to the nurse. Shak. The angel of God called to Hagar. Gen. xxi. 17.

2. To make a demand, requirement, or request. They called for rooms, and he showed them one. Bunyan.

3. To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders. He ordered her to call at the house once a week. Temple. To call for (a) To demand; to require; as, a crime calls for punishment; a survey, grant, or deed calls for the metes and bounds, or the quantity of land, etc., which it describes. (b) To give an order for; to request. "Whenever the coach stopped, the sailor called for more ale." Marryat.

– To call on, To call upon, (a) To make a short visit to; as, call on a friend. (b) To appeal to; to invite; to request earnestly; as, to call upon a person to make a speech. (c) To solicit payment, or make a demand, of a debt. (d) To invoke or play to; to worship; as, to call upon God.

– To call out To call or utter loudly; to brawl.

Call, n.

1. The act of calling; -- usually with the voice, but often otherwise, as by signs, the sound of some instrument, or by writing; a summons; an entreaty; an invitation; as, a call for help; the bugle's call. "Call of the trumpet." Shak. I rose as at thy call, but found thee not. Milton.

2. A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty.

3. (Eccl.)

Definition: An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.

4. A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case; a moral requirement or appeal. Dependence is a perpetual call upon hummanity. Addison. Running into danger without any call of duty. Macaulay.

5. A divine vocation or summons. St. Paul himself believed he did well, and that he had a call to it, when he persecuted the Christians. Locke.

6. Vocation; employment.

Note: [In this sense, calling is generally used.]

7. A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders. The baker's punctual call. Cowper.

8. (Hunting)

Definition: A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds.

9. (Naut.)

Definition: A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty.

10. (Fowling)

Definition: The cry of a bird; also a noise or cry in imitation of a bird; or a pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.

11. (Amer. Land Law)

Definition: A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant reguiring or calling for a carresponding object, etc., on the land.

12. The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on. [Brokers' Cant]

13. See Assessment, 4. At call, or On call, liable to be demanded at any moment without previous notice; as money on deposit.

– Call bird, a bird taught to allure others into a snare.

– Call boy (a) A boy who calls the actors in a theater; a boy who transmits the orders of the captain of a vessel to the engineer, helmsman, etc. (b) A waiting boy who answers a cal, or cames at the ringing of a bell; a bell boy.

– Call note, the note naturally used by the male bird to call the female. It is artifically applied by birdcatchers as a decoy. Latham.

– Call of the house (Legislative Bodies), a calling over the names of members, to discover who is absent, or for other purposes; a calling of names with a view to obtaining the ayes and noes from the persons named.

– Call to the bar, admission to practice in the courts.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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