'Call' definitions:

Definition of 'call'

From: WordNet
noun
A telephone connection; "she reported several anonymous calls"; "he placed a phone call to London"; "he heard the phone ringing but didn't want to take the call" [syn: call, phone call, telephone call]
noun
A special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course; "he was disappointed that he had not heard the Call"
noun
A loud utterance; often in protest or opposition; "the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience" [syn: cry, outcry, call, yell, shout, vociferation]
noun
A demand especially in the phrase "the call of duty" [syn: call, claim]
noun
The characteristic sound produced by a bird; "a bird will not learn its song unless it hears it at an early age" [syn: birdcall, call, birdsong, song]
noun
A brief social visit; "senior professors' wives no longer make afternoon calls on newcomers"; "the characters in Henry James' novels are forever paying calls on each other, usually in the parlor of some residence"
noun
A demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement [syn: margin call, call]
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A demand for a show of hands in a card game; "after two raises there was a call"
noun
A request; "many calls for Christmas stories"; "not many calls for buggywhips"
noun
An instruction that interrupts the program being executed; "Pascal performs calls by simply giving the name of the routine to be executed"
noun
A visit in an official or professional capacity; "the pastor's calls on his parishioners"; "the salesman's call on a customer"
noun
(sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee; "he was ejected for protesting the call"
noun
The option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date [syn: call option, call] [ant: put, put option]
verb
Assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to; "They named their son David"; "The new school was named after the famous Civil Rights leader" [syn: name, call]
verb
Ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality; "He called me a bastard"; "She called her children lazy and ungrateful"
verb
Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone; "I tried to call you all night"; "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning" [syn: call, telephone, call up, phone, ring]
verb
Utter a sudden loud cry; "she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle"; "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me" [syn: shout, shout out, cry, call, yell, scream, holler, hollo, squall]
verb
Order, request, or command to come; "She was called into the director's office"; "Call the police!" [syn: call, send for]
verb
Pay a brief visit; "The mayor likes to call on some of the prominent citizens" [syn: visit, call in, call]
verb
Call a meeting; invite or command to meet; "The Wannsee Conference was called to discuss the `Final Solution'"; "The new dean calls meetings every week"
verb
Read aloud to check for omissions or absentees; "Call roll"
verb
Send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc.; make a signal to in order to transmit a message; "Hawaii is calling!"; "A transmitter in Samoa was heard calling"
verb
Utter a characteristic note or cry; "bluejays called to one another"
verb
Stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather; "call a football game"
verb
Greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name; "He always addresses me with `Sir'"; "Call me Mister"; "She calls him by first name" [syn: address, call]
verb
Make a stop in a harbour; "The ship will call in Honolulu tomorrow"
verb
Demand payment of (a loan); "Call a loan" [syn: call, call in]
verb
Make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands; "He called his trump" [syn: bid, call]
verb
Give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance [syn: call, call off]
verb
Indicate a decision in regard to; "call balls and strikes behind the plate"
verb
Make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election" [syn: predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise]
verb
Require the presentation of for redemption before maturation; "Call a bond"
verb
Challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense; "He deserves to be called on that"
verb
Declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee; "call a runner out"
verb
Lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal; "Call ducks"
verb
Order or request or give a command for; "The unions called a general strike for Sunday"
verb
Order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role; "He was already called 4 times for jury duty"; "They called him to active military duty"
verb
Utter in a loud voice or announce; "He called my name"; "The auctioneer called the bids"
verb
Challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of; "call the speaker on a question of fact"
verb
Consider or regard as being; "I would not call her beautiful"
verb
Rouse somebody from sleep with a call; "I was called at 5 A.M. this morning"

Definition of 'Call'

From: GCIDE
  • Call \Call\ (k[add]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Called (k[add]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Calling] [OE. callen, AS. ceallian; akin to Icel. & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen to talk, prate, OHG. kall[=o]n to call; cf. Gr. ghry`ein to speak, sing, Skr. gar to praise. Cf. Garrulous.]
  • 1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. [1913 Webster]
  • Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious character; -- often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church. [1913 Webster]
  • Paul . . . called to be an apostle --Rom. i. 1. [1913 Webster]
  • The Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. --Acts xiii. 2. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with together; as, the President called Congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen. [1913 Webster]
  • Now call we our high court of Parliament. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name. [1913 Webster]
  • If you would but call me Rosalind. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. --Gen. i. 5. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate. [1913 Webster]
  • What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. --Acts x. 15. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work. [1913 Webster]
  • [The] army is called seven hundred thousand men. --Brougham. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • This speech calls him Spaniard. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off; as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a military company. [1913 Webster]
  • No parish clerk who calls the psalm so clear. --Gay. [1913 Webster]
  • 9. To invoke; to appeal to. [1913 Webster]
  • I call God for a witness. --2 Cor. i. 23 [Rev. Ver. ] [1913 Webster]
  • 10. To rouse from sleep; to awaken. [1913 Webster]
  • If thou canst awake by four o' the clock. I prithee call me. Sleep hath seized me wholly. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • To call a bond, to give notice that the amount of the bond will be paid.
  • To call a party (Law), to cry aloud his name in open court, and command him to come in and perform some duty requiring his presence at the time on pain of what may befall him.
  • To call back, to revoke or retract; to recall; to summon back.
  • To call down, to pray for, as blessing or curses.
  • To call forth, to bring or summon to action; as, to call forth all the faculties of the mind.
  • To call in, (a) To collect; as, to call in debts or money; ar to withdraw from cirulation; as, to call in uncurrent coin. (b) To summon to one's side; to invite to come together; as, to call in neighbors.
  • To call (any one) names, to apply contemptuous names (to any one).
  • To call off, to summon away; to divert; as, to call off the attention; to call off workmen from their employment.
  • To call out. (a) To summon to fight; to challenge. (b) To summon into service; as, to call out the militia.
  • To call over, to recite separate particulars in order, as a roll of names.
  • To call to account, to demand explanation of.
  • To call to mind, to recollect; to revive in memory.
  • To call to order, to request to come to order; as: (a) A public meeting, when opening it for business. (b) A person, when he is transgressing the rules of debate.
  • To call to the bar, to admit to practice in courts of law.
  • To call up. (a) To bring into view or recollection; as to call up the image of deceased friend. (b) To bring into action or discussion; to demand the consideration of; as, to call up a bill before a legislative body.
  • Syn: To name; denominate; invite; bid; summon; convoke; assemble; collect; exhort; warn; proclaim; invoke; appeal to; designate.
  • Usage: To Call, Convoke, Summon. Call is the generic term; as, to call a public meeting. To convoke is to require the assembling of some organized body of men by an act of authority; as, the king convoked Parliament. To summon is to require attendance by an act more or less stringent anthority; as, to summon a witness. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Call'

From: GCIDE
  • Call \Call\, v. i.
  • 1. To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; -- sometimes with to. [1913 Webster]
  • You must call to the nurse. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • The angel of God called to Hagar. --Gen. xxi. 17. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To make a demand, requirement, or request. [1913 Webster]
  • They called for rooms, and he showed them one. --Bunyan. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders. [1913 Webster]
  • He ordered her to call at the house once a week. --Temple. [1913 Webster]
  • To call for (a) To demand; to require; as, a crime calls for punishment; a survey, grant, or deed calls for the metes and bounds, or the quantity of land, etc., which it describes. (b) To give an order for; to request. "Whenever the coach stopped, the sailor called for more ale." --Marryat.
  • To call on, To call upon, (a) To make a short visit to; as, call on a friend. (b) To appeal to; to invite; to request earnestly; as, to call upon a person to make a speech. (c) To solicit payment, or make a demand, of a debt. (d) To invoke or play to; to worship; as, to call upon God.
  • To call out To call or utter loudly; to brawl. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Call'

From: GCIDE
  • Call \Call\, n.
  • 1. The act of calling; -- usually with the voice, but often otherwise, as by signs, the sound of some instrument, or by writing; a summons; an entreaty; an invitation; as, a call for help; the bugle's call. "Call of the trumpet." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • I rose as at thy call, but found thee not. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Eccl.) An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case; a moral requirement or appeal. [1913 Webster]
  • Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • Running into danger without any call of duty. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. A divine vocation or summons. [1913 Webster]
  • St. Paul himself believed he did well, and that he had a call to it, when he persecuted the Christians. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. Vocation; employment.
  • Note: [In this sense, calling is generally used.] [1913 Webster]
  • 7. A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders. [1913 Webster]
  • The baker's punctual call. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. (Hunting) A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds. [1913 Webster]
  • 9. (Naut.) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty. [1913 Webster]
  • 10. (Fowling) The cry of a bird; also a noise or cry in imitation of a bird; or a pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry. [1913 Webster]
  • 11. (Amer. Land 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 12. The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on. [Brokers' Cant] [1913 Webster]
  • 13. See Assessment, 4. [1913 Webster]
  • At call, or On call, liable to be demanded at any moment without previous notice; as money on deposit.
  • Call bird, a bird taught to allure others into a snare.
  • Call boy (a) A boy who calls the actors in a theater; a boy who transmits the orders of the captain of a vessel to the engineer, helmsman, etc. (b) A waiting boy who answers a cal, or cames at the ringing of a bell; a bell boy.
  • Call note, the note naturally used by the male bird to call the female. It is artificially applied by birdcatchers as a decoy. --Latham.
  • Call of the house (Legislative Bodies), a calling over the names of members, to discover who is absent, or for other purposes; a calling of names with a view to obtaining the ayes and noes from the persons named.
  • Call to the bar, admission to practice in the courts. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Call'

From: Easton
  • Call
  • To cry for help, hence to pray (Gen. 4:26). Thus men are said to "call upon the name of the Lord" (Acts 2:21; 7:59; 9:14; Rom. 10:12; 1 Cor. 1:2).
  • God calls with respect to men when he designates them to some special office (Ex. 31:2; Isa. 22:20; Acts 13:2), and when he invites them to accept his offered grace (Matt. 9:13; 11:28; 22:4).
  • In the message of the gospel his call is addressed to all men, to Jews and Gentiles alike (Matt. 28:19; Mark 16:15; Rom. 9:24, 25). But this universal call is not inseparably connected with salvation, although it leaves all to whom it comes inexcusable if they reject it (John 3:14-19; Matt. 22:14).
  • An effectual call is something more than the outward message of the Word of God to men. It is internal, and is the result of the enlightening and sanctifying influence of the Holy Spirit (John 16:14; Acts 26: 18; John 6:44), effectually drawing men to Christ, and disposing and enabling them to receive the truth (John 6:45; Acts 16:14; Eph. 1:17).

Synonyms of 'call'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Call'