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call
Verb
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If somebody is called something, that is their name.
Their daughter's called Mai.
She's a beautiful baby. What do you call her?
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If you call somebody somewhere, you ask or tell them to come there.
She called me to her office.
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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
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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.
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A visit to someone.
I paid a call to a friend.
The doctor does not do house calls.
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A cry or shout.
He heard a call from the other side of the room.
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The cry of a bird or animal.
Cuckoo birds have a unique call.
a
Determinative
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A is used when the following word could be any of a certain type.
Compare "A book I saw on the shelf" and "The book I gave you yesterday".
a
Noun
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A is the first letter of the alphabet.
The letter "a" comes before "b".
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In some schools, an A is a very high grade.
Ron got an A on his earth science test.
strike
Verb
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When you hit something, you strike it.
If you strike a person, it will hurt.
He struck the boy with his hand.
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When an idea strikes you, it occurs to you suddenly or with force.
To play with fire strikes me as a bad idea.
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When a clock rings a bell to tell you the time, the clock strikes the time.
The children ran out of the school when the clock struck twelve.
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A disease can strike a person. That person is stricken with disease.
The child was stricken with a serious blood disease.
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When you strike a part from a document, it is stricken from the document.
The errors were stricken from the dictionary.
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When bad luck strikes you, you are stricken with bad luck.
strike
Noun
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When a group of people stop working to improve or defend their working conditions or pay, they go on strike.
Every secretary at the company went on strike for better pay.