| call | |
| 1. n. A telephone conversation. | |
| I received several phone calls today. | |
| I received several calls today. | |
| 2. n. A short visit, usually for social purposes. | |
| I paid a call to a dear friend of mine. | |
| 3. n. (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port. | |
| The ship made a call at Southampton. | |
| 4. n. A cry or shout. | |
| He heard a call from the other side of the room. | |
| 5. n. A decision or judgement. | |
| That was a good call. | |
| 6. n. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal. | |
| That sound is the distinctive call of the cuckoo bird. | |
| 7. n. A beckoning or summoning. | |
| I had to yield to the call of the wild. | |
| 8. n. The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor. | |
| The Prime Minister has the call. | |
| I give the call to the Manager of Opposition Business. | |
| 9. n. (finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time. | |
| 10. n. (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman. | |
| 11. n. (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.) | |
| 12. n. A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call). | |
| 13. n. (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point. | |
| 14. n. A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on. | |
| There was a 20 dollar bet on the table, and my call was 9. | |
| 15. n. (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting. | |
| 16. n. A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt. | |
| 17. n. (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty. | |
| 18. n. A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call. | |
| 19. n. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor. | |
| 20. n. (archaic) Vocation; employment; calling. | |
| 21. n. (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. | |
| 22. n. (informal, slang) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job. | |
| 23. v. To use one's voice.: | |
| 24. v. (intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon. | |
| That person is hurt; call for help! | |
| 25. v. (intransitive) To cry or shout. | |
| 26. v. To utter in a loud or distinct voice. | |
| to call the roll of a military company | |
| 27. v. (transitive, intransitive) To contact by telephone. | |
| Why don't you call me in the morning? Why don't you call tomorrow? | |
| 28. v. To declare in advance. | |
| The captains call the coin toss. | |
| 29. v. To rouse from sleep; to awaken. | |
| 30. v. To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure. | |
| After the third massive failure, John called the whole initiative. | |
| 31. v. (heading, intransitive) To visit. | |
| 32. v. To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again). | |
| We could always call on a friend. The engineer called round whilst you were away. | |
| 33. v. To stop at a station or port. | |
| This train calls at Reading, Slough and London Paddington. Our cruise ship called at Bristol Harbour. | |
| 34. v. To name, identify or describe.: | |
| 35. v. (ditransitive) To name or refer to. | |
| Why don't we dispense with the formalities. Please call me Al. | |
| 36. v. (in passive) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name. | |
| I'm called John. A very tall building is called a skyscraper. | |
| 37. v. To predict. | |
| He called twelve of the last three recessions. | |
| 38. v. To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact. | |
| They call the distance ten miles. That's enough work. Let's call it a day and go home. | |
| 39. v. (obsolete) To disclose the class or character of; to identify. | |
| 40. v. (heading, sport) Direct or indirect use of the voice. | |
| 41. v. (cricket) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run. | |
| 42. v. (baseball, cricket) (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions). | |
| 43. v. (intransitive, poker) To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting. | |
| I bet $800 and Jane raised to $1600. My options: call (match her $1600 bet), reraise or fold. | |
| 44. v. (intransitive, poker, proscribed) To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to anno | |
| I'll call your 300, and raise to 600! | |
| 45. v. To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on. | |
| My partner called two spades. | |
| 46. v. (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand. | |
| He felt called to help the old man. | |
| 47. v. (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium. | |
| 48. v. (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan. | |
| 49. v. (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion. | |
| A recursive function is one that calls itself. | |
