call
What is the Definition of call?
Noun:
- a telephone connection
- a special disposition (as if from a divine source)
- a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition
- the characteristic sound produced by a bird
- a brief social visit
- a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement
- a demand for a show of hands in a card game
- a request
- an instruction that interrupts the program being executed
- a visit in an official or professional capacity
- (sports)
- the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future)
Verb:
- assign a specified (usually proper)
- ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality
- get or try to get into communication (with someone)
- utter a sudden loud cry
- order, request, or command to come
- pay a brief visit
- call a meeting; invite or command to meet
- read aloud to check for omissions or absentees
- send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc.; make a signal to in order to transmit a message
- utter a characteristic note or cry
- stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather
- greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name
- make a stop in a harbour
- demand payment of (a loan)
- make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands
- give the calls (to the dancers)
- indicate a decision in regard to
- make a prediction about; tell in advance
- require the presentation of for redemption before maturation
- challenge (somebody)
- declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee
- lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal
- order or request or give a command for
- order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role
- utter in a loud voice or announce
- challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of
- consider or regard as being
- rouse somebody from sleep with a call
How can I use call in a sentence?
All the same, it was not what you would call the perfect end to the day, Harry thought, as he lay awake much later listening to Dean and Seamus falling asleep (Neville was not back from the hospital wing).
Harry tried to turn back toward the Gryffindor goal-posts — he had half a mind to ask Wood to call time-out — and then he realized that his broom was completely out of his control.
At the start of their first class he took the roll call, and when he reached Harry's name he gave an excited squeak and toppled out of sight.
All this ‘You-Know-Who' nonsense — for eleven years I have been trying to persuade people to call him by his proper name: Voldemort.
As I say, even if You-Know-Who has gone — My dear Professor, surely a sensible person like yourself can call him by his name?
Other meanings of call (synonyms, cognates).
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| call address |
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| call deposit |
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| call loan |
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| call over |
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| call up |
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| callback |
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| called |
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| caller |
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| calligraphic |
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| calligraphic display |
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| calligraphy |
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| calling |
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| calling sequence |
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| callisthenics |
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| callout |
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| callow |
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| callus |
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