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call English

Meaning call meaning

What does call mean?
Definitions in simple English

call Verb

— If you call someone, you contact them using a telephone. Can you call me tonight at about 8:00? We called 911 and the police came in five minutes. I can't talk now. I'll call back later. — If you call to someone, you use your voice to make them notice you. I can't see you. Call out to me so I can find you. — If you call someone or something mathx/math, you say they are mathx/math. If you ever tell anyone that, I'll call you a liar. The kids at school called him an asshole. Nobody would even call him good-looking. They called it the most important hockey game ever. — If somebody is called something, that is their name. Their daughter's called Mai. She's a beautiful baby. What do you call her? — If you call somebody somewhere, you ask or tell them to come there. She called me to her office. — If you call a meeting, a stop, etc., you say you want one to happen. I've called a meeting for tomorrow, and I'd like you to be there. Coach Dan Bylsma called a timeout to give his five players a rest.

call Noun

— A call is a time when you use the telephone to contact someone. After she made the phone call, she left the office. I received three calls about the car I was selling. — A visit to someone. I paid a call to a friend. The doctor does not do house calls. — A cry or shout. He heard a call from the other side of the room. — The cry of a bird or animal. Cuckoo birds have a unique call.

call

— verb (= name) assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to They named their son David The new school was named after the famous Civil Rights leader — 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 — verb (= telephone) 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 — verb order, request, or command to come She was called into the director's office Call the police! — verb (= cry, yell) 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 — 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 — noun (= phone call) 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 — verb (= visit) pay a brief visit The mayor likes to call on some of the prominent citizens — noun (= cry) a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience — noun a demand especially in the phrase the call of duty — 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 — verb utter a characteristic note or cry bluejays called to one another — verb read aloud to check for omissions or absentees Call roll — 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 — noun (= song) the characteristic sound produced by a bird a bird will not learn its song unless it hears it at an early age — noun an instruction that interrupts the program being executed Pascal performs calls by simply giving the name of the routine to be executed — noun a demand for a show of hands in a card game after two raises there was a call — noun a request many calls for Christmas stories not many calls for buggywhips — noun a visit in an official or professional capacity the pastor's calls on his parishioners the salesman's call on a customer — noun (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee he was ejected for protesting the call — verb rouse somebody from sleep with a call I was called at 5 A.M. this morning — verb indicate a decision in regard to call balls and strikes behind the plate — verb lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal Call ducks — verb declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee call a runner out — verb challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense He deserves to be called on that — verb require the presentation of for redemption before maturation Call a bond — verb consider or regard as being I would not call her beautiful — verb challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of call the speaker on a question of fact — verb utter in a loud voice or announce He called my name The auctioneer called the bids — verb order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role He was already called 4 times for jury duty They called him to active military duty — verb order or request or give a command for The unions called a general strike for Sunday — verb make a stop in a harbour The ship will call in Honolulu tomorrow — verb demand payment of (a loan) Call a loan — verb give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance — verb stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather call a football game — verb (= address) greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name He always addresses me with 'Sir' Call me Mister She calls him by first name — verb make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands He called his trump — noun (= call option) the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date — noun (= margin call) a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement — verb make a prediction about; tell in advance Call the outcome of an election

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

Synonyms call synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as call?

call English » English

summon name shout invite visit cry phone summons yell telephone designate scream ring invitation call out demand invoke send for appeal call up hail call in request beckon claim ask sing term phone call address telephone call holler cry out convoke calling call for anticipate say order foretell dub call by telephone bawl announce whoop shout to roar ring up promise prognosticate

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Topics call topics

What do people use call to talk about?
Universe, creation Animal Animal actions

Animal sounds
Language and thought Communication Say Speak with others

Call
Social behavior Social activity Come together, form a group

Visit
Daily life Sleep

Wake up
Grammar Name

Name of a person
Language and thought Communication Mass communication

Telephone
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation Game

Card game
Work and occupation Finance Have wealth

Own, possess
Grammar

Name
Grammar Name

Name of a thing
Social behavior Social activity Come together, form a group

Invite
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation

Sports
Person Life Sexual relations

Sexual immorality
Language and thought Soul, spirit Mental state

Notice
Language and thought Soul, spirit Mental state

Attention
Language and thought Think

Remember
Language and thought Want Influence

Control
Language and thought Communication Say Voice

Shout
Language and thought Communication Say True

Tell the truth
Language and thought Communication Say True

Expose falsehood
Social behavior Social activity

Drama
Social behavior Conflict War

Win
Social behavior Conflict War

Surrender
Social behavior Conflict Peace

Rebuke
Work and occupation Work Method Plan

Cancel an event
Work and occupation Hunt and fish

Hunt
Work and occupation Hunt and fish

Things done to animals

  • What words refer to calling to an animal?
    bird call
States Quantity Enough

Need

Conjugation call conjugation

How do you conjugate call?

call · verb

Examples call examples

How do I use call in a sentence?

Simple sentences

There's a phone call for you from Akemi.
Call an ambulance.
Could you call a doctor, please?
Last call!
I tried to call Mr Smith, but the line was busy.
Call the doctor in immediately.
I'll put your call through in a minute.
What do you call this vegetable in English?
Give me a telephone call when you get back.
When I was a child, I would often call on him on Sunday.
Call me before you leave.
Please call me Taro.
Call her tomorrow.
I'll call them tomorrow when I come back.
Where can one make a phone call?
Call the police!
Could you call again later, please?
Tell them to call me before they leave.
Holy crap, who's the asshole who dares call me in the middle of the night?!
Did you call me up last night?
If I find your passport, I'll call you at once.
I couldn't call you; the telephone was out of order.

Movie subtitles

I call because I wanted to ask you something.
Emergency call to the base in Noah.
Repeat: an emergency call to the base in Noah.
I call through the radio of my car.
I have to call the military base.
Call urgent basis in Noah.
Emergency call.
It's about that phone call from before.
Do you know if there are call logs?
Don't call us Elevens!
While we are here, call me Governor-General, Vice-Governor Euphemia.
There's an emergency call button she can press.
All of you who call yourselves Japanese. please?
I have boiled it down to six things and I'm going to call them the six killer applications - the killer apps - that made the West dominate the rest.
Phone call?
We now call this the Kapteyn model.
Call me if you need anything.
Budge call!
Call me for the birth.
Let me call the army.
Call it what you will.
I'll call the police if he sets foot in here again.
Every day, people heard our call. Women too.
Desperate times call for desperate measures, Nick.
I never understood why those guys got to call the shots and hog the soccer fields anyway.
I made a call.
You can each of you make one phone call home but you must not, under any circumstances, tell them where you are and what is happening.
If I've only got one call, which one do I call?
What you going to call yourself?
That's what I'm gonna call myself.
You can't call yourself that.
You call yourself whatever you like, mate.
We should call ourselves names that mean something.
If I was a girl, I'd call myself...well, Hope.
Call. the advisers.
Is it convenient to take a phone call?

News and current affairs

Alerted by a telephone call, a policeman arrived smartly on the scene.
There is a world of difference between an association of nation states bound together by treaty, and a single entity, whether you call it a state or not, with its own legal personality, deriving its authority from its own constitution.
Some people call for the cyber equivalent of formal arms-control treaties.
This conclusion should not be lost on high-flying emerging-market economies, especially in Asia - currently the world's fastest-growing region and the leader of what many now call a two-speed world.
Basically, there are two species of Israeli hawks: call one kind ideological and the other strategic.
Twelve years later, Poland's Prime Minister didn't need a belated call from his military to know that war was underway in Iraq.
At home, Sarkozy has aimed his message particularly at the young, issuing a patriotic call to the values of work and discipline, a counter-revolutionary revolution.
Tony Blair is right to call on his rich-country colleagues to follow through on their unfulfilled promises.
My hopes for success are buoyed by my ability to call my mother inexpensively and discuss the farm.
Call it fast-forward modernization.
Likewise, the World Health Organization issued a major call to scale up development assistance for health.
To call these people's ostentatious displays of extravagance wasteful is to miss the point: a world of glittering dreams that must remain entirely beyond our grasp is precisely what many people want to see.
Their crime was to call for a constitutional monarchy.
But let's back up historically, to the founding of what we might call modern conservatism in early nineteenth-century Britain and France.
My colleagues and I, serving on an advisory committee for the Spanish initiative, have recommended that donors pool their funds into a single international account, which we call the Financial Coordination Mechanism (FCM).
Or they can treat the crisis as a wake-up call to fix what debt has papered over in the last few decades.
And it was the foreign press that detailed the parallel failure of the United Nations, whose agents were on the ground but whose inability to call genocide by its proper name led to a comatose response.
Nevertheless, the reports about Kim's ill health hit like a rude wake-up call about the precarious nature of conditions in North Korea.
Israel will defend itself if Iran continues to call for its destruction.
The call went unheeded.
Islamic fundamentalists define jihad as a war of terror against the West and call for an Islamic caliphate from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
We in this region can, and I believe should, call for a non-aligned Caucasus, free of security blocs and adversarial alliances.

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