call
IPA: kˈɔɫ
noun
- A telephone conversation; a phone call.
- An instance of calling someone on the telephone.
- 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.
- (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.)
- (uncountable) A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. 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, law) 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.
- (law) A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.
- (in negative constructions) Need; necessity.
- A surname.
- (finance) Short for call option. [(finance) An option to buy a stated quantity of an asset or financial product, such as stock, at a stated price (the strike price), on a stated future date (or range of dates).]
- Initialism of computer-assisted language learning.
verb
- 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.
- (transitive, jazz) To request that one's band play (a particular tune).
- (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.
- To come to pass; to afflict.
- 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.
- (transitive) To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death.
- (transitive) To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.
- (obsolete) To disclose the class or character of; to identify.
- (heading, sports) 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, with into) To cause to be verbally subjected to.
- (transitive, colloquial) To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
- (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.
- (Yorkshire) To scold.
- (sports) To make a decision as a referee or umpire.
- (cue sports) To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.
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Examples of "call" in Sentences
- A disposable phone in the mail and call me.
- Stop the name calling and talk to the point.
- A hysterical phone call comes in to the office.
- It was rude to disconnect the phone call like that.
- They were harassed by the beleaguering phone calls.
- The talk page and the process are called in meditation.
- The call went through to a \'call center\ 'in Pakistan.'
- In PSTN the tracking of phone calls are based on the billing system.
- The reason of the late call as claimed was the mistaken phone number.
- In addition to the murders, the house is receiving obscene phone calls.
- After the conversation the Call Agent signals the phone to disconnect the call.
- Furthermore, what if my son had to call 911 from the house and was given a call was lost message?
- The person you want to call must be following you on Twitter, and you both have to sign up for the @call beta.
- While @call simplifies and solves two current Twitter problems it fails to provide any context before the call.
- The new @call program lets any of the hundreds, or in some cases thousands, of people you follow on Twitter to give you a call.
- As you process each input you tag it appropriately if it is a single action: “call insurance company and request copy of accident report” receives the @call tag.
- All they would have to do is type into their Twitter client '@call @ianpaul' and Jajah would connect us for a free, two-minute call using the voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).
- Truphone Anywhere for Android delivers an all-in-one conversations hub that allows customers to take advantage of Truphone's low international call rates, in addition to the cost of a local call*.