Call (IPA: /ˈkɔɫ/)
| Call (v. t.) |
To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. |
| Call (v. t.) |
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. |
| Call (v. t.) |
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. |
| Call (v. t.) |
To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name. |
| Call (v. t.) |
To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate. |
| Call (v. t.) |
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. |
| Call (v. t.) |
To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of. |
| Call (v. t.) |
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. |
| Call (v. t.) |
To invoke; to appeal to. |
| Call (v. t.) |
To rouse from sleep; to awaken. |
| Call (v. i.) |
To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; -- sometimes with to. |
| Call (v. i.) |
To make a demand, requirement, or request. |
| Call (v. i.) |
To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders. |
| Call (n.) |
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 (n.) |
A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty. |
| Call (n.) |
An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor. |
| Call (n.) |
A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case; a moral requirement or appeal. |
| Call (n.) |
A divine vocation or summons. |
| Call (n.) |
Vocation; employment. |
| Call (n.) |
A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders. |
| Call (n.) |
A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds. |
| Call (n.) |
A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty. |
| Call (n.) |
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. |
| Call (n.) |
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. |
| Call (n.) |
The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on. |
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Band |
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Pakistani band |
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Type of dance move |
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Japanese pop band |
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Off Course song |
| Call (Last Name / Surname) |
Call is the #2,376 most common last name / surname from the 2010 United States Census. The census reported that 15,324 people had that surname. |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " "for thy huggest thy bolster, which men call a Dutch wife in some parts." - Anthony Burgess |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " "˜.. .You know what they call you expatriates? White leeches.'" - Anthony Burgess |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " "'I was brought to this cell by your Priests. As with all Priests, you learned early to call the truth heresy .'"" - Dune |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " "That's what you call metaphor ," said Rincewind. Lying ," the sergeant explained, kindly. (p. 119)" - Discworld |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " (Everything will be fine now... Because I'm not alone. If I call out... They will answer.)" - Final Fantasy VIII |
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