Definitions for Call

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Call call

Spelling: [kawl]

IPA: /kɔl/

Call is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in Call (acll).

Definitions for Call

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 Call

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 Call

Who else would see a former spouse accused of underage sex and call him ‘the greatest man there is’?

You know I am your banker, and it is only natural for you to call upon me.

Note: UNICOR uses its inmates for everything from call center operators to human demolishers of old computers.

If you will leave the matter in my hands, I will call upon him to-night, and see what I can do.

Al Qaeda has never managed to carve out a large chunk of real estate to call its own—in Afghanistan it was a guest of the Taliban.

"I shall not call upon you to do that," said the lawyer, kindly.

I cannot recall the precise amount, but it was not so much as what you call one dollar.

“call me when the plane leaves the ground,” she said, in a tone that implied she knew her husband well.

It is to me more what you call a 'beast-garden,' to include all species of fauna.

This is the Mexico that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and most major U.S. corporations, are eager to call amigo.