Definitions for calls

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calls call

Spelling: [kawl]

IPA: /kɔl/

Calls is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 40 anagrams from letters in calls (aclls).

Definitions for calls

noun

1. a cry or shout.
2. the cry or vocal sound of a bird or other animal.
3. an instrument for imitating this cry and attracting or luring an animal:
4. an act or instance of telephoning:
5. a short visit:
6. a summons or signal sounded by a bugle, bell, etc.:
7. a summons, invitation, or bidding:
8. a calling of a roll; roll call.
9. the fascination or appeal of a given place, vocation, etc.:
10. a mystic experience of divine appointment to a vocation or service:
11. a request or invitation to become pastor of a church, a professor in a university, etc.
12. a need or occasion:
13. a demand or claim:
14. a demand for payment of an obligation, especially where payment is at the option of the creditor.
15. Cards. a demand for a card or a showing of hands. Poker. an equaling of the preceding bet. Bridge. a bid or pass.
16. Sports. a judgment or decision by an umpire, a referee, or other official of a contest, as on a shot, pitch, or batter:
17. Theater. a notice of rehearsal posted by the stage manager. act call. curtain call.
18. Dance. a figure or direction in square dancing, announced to the dancers by the caller.
19. Also called call option. Finance. an option that gives the right to buy a fixed amount of a particular stock at a predetermined price within a given period of time, purchased by a person who believes the price will rise. Compare put (def 24).
20. Fox Hunting. any of several cries, or sounds made on a horn by the hunter to encourage the hounds.

Idioms

1. call in sick. sick1 (def 15).
2. call to order. order (def 48).
3. on call, payable or subject to return without advance notice. readily available for summoning upon short notice.
4. take a call, to acknowledge the applause of the audience after a performance by appearing for a bow or a curtain call.
5. within call, within distance or range of being spoken to or summoned:

Verb phrases

1. call away, to cause to leave or go; summon:
2. call back, to summon or bring back; recall: to revoke; retract:
3. call down, to request or pray for; invoke: to reprimand; scold:
4. call for, to go or come to get; pick up; fetch. to request; summon. to require; demand; need:
5. call forth, to summon into action; bring into existence:
6. call in, to call for payment; collect. to withdraw from circulation: to call upon for consultation; ask for help: to inform or report by telephone: to participate in a radio or television program by telephone.
7. call in/into question. question (def 17).
8. call off, to distract; take away: to cancel (something) that had been planned for a certain date:
9. call on/upon, to ask; appeal to: to visit for a short time:
10. call out, to speak in a loud voice; shout. to summon into service or action: to bring out; elicit: to direct attention to with a callout: Informal. to challenge to a fight.
11. call up, to bring forward for consideration or discussion. to cause to remember; evoke. to communicate or try to communicate with by telephone. to summon for action or service: Computers. to summon (information) from a computer system for display on a video screen:

verb (used with object)

1. to cry out in a loud voice; shout:
2. to command or request to come; summon:
3. to ask or invite to come:
4. to communicate or try to communicate with by telephone:
5. to rouse from sleep, as by a call; waken:
6. to read over (a roll or a list) in a loud voice.
7. to convoke or convene:
8. to announce authoritatively; proclaim:
9. to order into effect; establish:
10. to schedule:
11. to summon by or as if by divine command:
12. to summon to an office, duty, etc.:
13. to cause to come; bring:
14. to bring under consideration or discussion:
15. to attract or lure (birds or animals) by imitating characteristic sounds.
16. to direct or attract (attention):
17. to name or address (someone) as:
18. to designate as something specified:
19. to think of as something specified; consider; estimate:
20. to demand of (someone) that he or she fulfill a promise, furnish evidence for a statement, etc.:
21. to criticize adversely; express disapproval of; censure (often followed by out):
22. to demand payment or fulfillment of (a loan).
23. to demand presentation of (bonds) for redemption.
24. to forecast correctly:
25. Sports. to pronounce a judgment on (a shot, pitch, batter, etc.): to put an end to (a contest) because of inclement weather, poor field conditions, etc.:
26. Pool. to name (the ball) one intends to drive into a particular pocket.
27. (in a computer program) to transfer control of to a procedure or subroutine.
28. Cards. to demand (a card). to demand the display of a hand by (a player). Poker. to equal (a bet) or equal the bet made by (the preceding bettor) in a round. Bridge. to signal one's partner for a lead of (a certain card or suit).

verb (used without object)

1. to speak loudly, as to attract attention; shout; cry:
2. to make a short visit; stop at a place on some errand or business:
3. to telephone or try to telephone a person:
4. Cards. to demand a card. to demand a showing of hands. Poker. to equal a bet. Bridge. to bid or pass.
5. (of a bird or animal) to utter its characteristic cry.

Origin of calls

1200-50; late Middle English callen, probably Old Norse kalla to call out, conflated with Old English (West Saxon) ceallian to shout; cognate with Middle Dutch kallen to talk, Old High German

Examples for calls

They were alone in the house, although a policeman was within call.

“You may not be within call,” said Mr Rose somewhat gloomily.

The mistress will be wanting you soon; you'd better be within call.

"For the next few days I'd better be within call," he decided.

Uncle Tom always will be within call, and never let you be harmed.

While we were under sail two canoes came off within call of us.

Seeing that he is not within call, we must examine the question for ourselves.

Percy Witherspoon was within call, and not away off in the Indian camp.

She appeared to be fainting, and no attendants were within call.

He was within call if needed; meanwhile, he could have his sleep out.