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call
verb called, calling
    tr & intr
    1. To shout or speak loudly in order to attract attention or in announcing something.
      Thesaurus: cry, shout, yell, halloo.
      Form: call out (also)
    2. To ask someone to come, especially with a shout.
    3. To ask for a professional visit from someone.
      Example: call the doctor
    4. To summon or invite someone.
    tr & intr
    5. To telephone.
      Thesaurus: ring, call up, contact, get in touch with, telephone, page.
    6. To waken.
      Example: Tim was called at 6.30am
    intr
    7. To make a visit.
      Example: call at the grocer's
    intr
    8. To stop at a place during a journey
      Example: Does the train call at York?
    9. To give a name to someone or something.
      Example: They called their son Kurt
      Thesaurus: name, label, term, declare, dub, christen.
    10. To regard or consider something as something specified.
      Example: I call that strange
    11. To say or imply that someone is something specified, usually unpleasant
      Example: Are you calling me a liar?
    12. To summon or assemble people for (a meeting).
      Thesaurus: announce, decree, declare, proclaim, convoke, convene.
    13. To announce or declare something.
      Example: call an election
    tr & intr
    14. To make a demand or appeal for it.
      Example: call a strike
      Form: call for something (often)
    tr & intr
    15. In a card game: to make a bid or choose (a suit for trumps).
    intr
    16. To predict which way a coin will land when tossed
      Example: Heads or tails? You call!
    17. Said of an umpire, etc: to judge (a ball) to be in or out of play.
    intr
    18. Said of a bird, etc: to make its typical or characteristic sound.
noun
    1. A shout or cry.
      Thesaurus: shout, cry, whoop, yell.
    2. The cry of a bird or animal.
      Thesaurus: cry, whoop, yell, trumpet.
    3. An invitation or appeal.
      Thesaurus: appeal, request, invitation, summons, urge, supplication, plea; command, order, signal.
    4. A claim or demand for it.
      Example: too many calls on my time
      Form: call on something (usually)
    5. A brief visit.
    6. An act of contacting someone by telephone; a telephone conversation.
    7. A need or reason.
      Example: not much call for Latin teachers
    8. An act of waking someone, usually by arrangement.
    9. A signal blown on a bugle, etc.
    10. A feeling that one has been chosen to do a particular job; a vocation.
    11. A player's turn to bid or choose trumps in a card game.
    12. The decision of a referee, etc on whether a ball is in or out of play.
    13. An instrument that imitates a bird's call.
Derivative: caller
noun
    A person or thing that calls.
Idiom: call collect
    ( Amer, especially US)
    To have the telephone call one is making charged to the receiver of the call; to reverse the charges.
Idiom: call something into question
    To suggest reasons for doubting it.
Idiom: call it a day
    To decide to stop doing something, eg finish work, etc.
Idiom: call someone or something to mind
    To remember them.
    To remind one of something.
Idiom: call the shots
    To be in command.
Idiom: have first call on something
    To have the right to (someone's help, attention, etc) before anyone else.
Idiom: on call
    Said eg of a doctor: available if needed, eg to deal with an emergency.
      Thesaurus: ready, prepared, available, at hand, usable.
Idiom: within call
    Close enough to hear if called.
Etymology: Anglo-Saxon ceallian.

Phrasal Verb: call back
    To visit or telephone again.
Phrasal Verb: call someone back
    To contact them again or in return by telephone.To summon them to return.
Phrasal Verb: call something down on someone
    To try to inflict it on them as if from heaven.
Phrasal Verb: call for something or someone
    To require them.To collect or fetch them.
Phrasal Verb: call something forth
    To elicit or evoke it.
Phrasal Verb: call someone in
    To invite or request their help.
Phrasal Verb: call something in
    To request the return of (eg library books, a batch of faulty products, etc).
Phrasal Verb: call in on or in at someone
    To visit them, usually briefly.
Phrasal Verb: call something off
    To cancel a meeting, arrangement, etc.To order (an animal) to stop attacking someone.To give orders for something to be stopped.
      Example: We'll call off the search at midnight
Phrasal Verb: call on or upon someone
    To visit them.To request or appeal to someone.
      Example: The chairperson called on the secretary to read the minutes
Phrasal Verb: call on something
    To gather or summon up (one's strength, etc).
Phrasal Verb: call people out
    To instruct (workers) to strike.To summon (eg the fire brigade, the gas board, etc) to help with an emergency, etc.
Phrasal Verb: call round
    To make an informal visit.
Phrasal Verb: call someone up
    To conscript them into the armed forces. See also call-up.To telephone them.
Phrasal Verb: call something up
    To cause (memories, images, etc) to come into the mind.To retrieve (data) from a computer.
      Example: She called up the file in order to print it out


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