Definitions for calling

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calling call·ing

Spelling: [kaw-ling]

IPA: /ˈkɔ lɪŋ/

Calling is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 127 anagrams from letters in calling (acgilln).

Definitions for calling

noun

1. the act of a person or thing that calls.
2. vocation, profession, or trade:
3. a call or summons:
4. a strong impulse or inclination:
5. a convocation:
6. a cry or shout.
7. the cry or vocal sound of a bird or other animal.
8. an instrument for imitating this cry and attracting or luring an animal:
9. an act or instance of telephoning:
10. a short visit:
11. a summons or signal sounded by a bugle, bell, etc.:
12. a summons, invitation, or bidding:
13. a calling of a roll; roll call.
14. the fascination or appeal of a given place, vocation, etc.:
15. a mystic experience of divine appointment to a vocation or service:
16. a request or invitation to become pastor of a church, a professor in a university, etc.
17. a need or occasion:
18. a demand or claim:
19. a demand for payment of an obligation, especially where payment is at the option of the creditor.
20. Cards. a demand for a card or a showing of hands. Poker. an equaling of the preceding bet. Bridge. a bid or pass.
21. Sports. a judgment or decision by an umpire, a referee, or other official of a contest, as on a shot, pitch, or batter:
22. Theater. a notice of rehearsal posted by the stage manager. act call. curtain call.
23. Dance. a figure or direction in square dancing, announced to the dancers by the caller.
24. 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).
25. 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 calling

Middle English word dating back to 1200-50; See origin at call, -ing¹

Examples for calling

However much we gossip about heterosexual couples with large age gaps, we at least refrain from calling them sex offenders.

My object in calling upon him was to induce him to do me justice at last.

DeCrow would come to lead a movement against this practice, suing the Hotel Syracuse in 1969 and calling for protests and sit-ins.

Between 25 and 30, you’re trying to decide how much longer before you start growing a beard and calling yourself ‘Daddy.

It made Andy frown, and for an instant he thought of calling Buck back.

Robert was right in calling him a miser, but he had not always deserved the name.

He might even stand up for these rookies he was now calling children of God.

calling Tommy, we soon overtook him and made him carry it back to the party.

The last band I was in was kind of a Sonic Youth rip-off band, and I thought that that was my calling.

It was only the old man calling his son: David calling upon Absalom.