call

noun

A cry or shout.

The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.

A beckoning or summoning.

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 decision or judgement.

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.

(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) Ellipsis of 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.

(archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.

verb

(heading) To reach out with one's voice.

(intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon.

(intransitive) To cry or shout.

(transitive) To utter in a loud or distinct voice.

(ambitransitive) To contact by telephone.

(transitive) To rouse from sleep; to awaken.

(transitive, jazz) To request that one's band play (a particular tune).

(Yorkshire, transitive) To scold.

(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.

(heading) To name, identify, or describe.

(ditransitive) To name or refer to.

(passive voice) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.

To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.

(transitive) To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.

(heading) To declare, or declare in favor of, a predicted or actual result.

(transitive) To declare in advance.

(transitive) To predict.

(transitive) To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death.

To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.

(sports) To make a decision as a referee or umpire.

(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).

(billiards) To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.

(intransitive, poker) To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.

(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.

(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.)

(obsolete) To disclose the class or character of; to identify.

Synonyms for call

phonen telephonen hollerv shoutv visitn yelln summonv addressn namen askv ringv invokev

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