英语词汇“call to action”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Phrases

P1. at call.

a. Also at a person's call. Ready to answer a call or summons; (hence) immediately available, at a person's disposal. Cf. on call adv.

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1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lxxviii. sig. Ggiii My yong cosin spider was with me here:To cum to his father: my hunkle: at call.

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie Pref. 34 To be alwayes at the call..of a number of mean persons.

1632 P. Massinger & N. Field Fatall Dowry iii. sig. G A true friend at a call.

1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells vii. 419 There she was seated in a chaire of state, And Ladies readie at her call to wait.

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xx. 542 Those that subscribed to be at all calls.

1759 J. Hanway Reasons for Augmentation of 12,000 Mariners iv. xxiv. 90 The keeping 15 or 20,000 seamen upon half pay..with condition to be ready at call.

1859 G. T. Robertson & J. R. Green Oxf. during Last Cent. 49/1 Shabbily-genteel toadeaters, ready at his call.

1885 Manch. Examiner 20 July 5/5 An unconscious desire to possess gold at call.

1952 T. Armstrong Adam Brunskill xii. 403 The room was warm and, tobacco jar at call and beer available when required, there was little disposition to face the keen easterly wind.

1992 R. Manning Swamp Root Chron. xvii. 285 A USIS photographer was at her call night and day to record the Johnson presidency.

2001 Australian (Nexis) 14 Nov. 35 What will happen to their dedicated staff who are always at call for discussion on assignments?

b. Finance. (a) Upon demand of repayment; on the understanding that money borrowed must be repaid on demand or at short notice; (b) attributive of or relating to money that is repayable or withdrawable on demand or at short notice.

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1673At call [see sense 13a].

1843 Monthly Commerc. Chron. 1 Jan. 78 Money..placed at call with well-known and substantial firms.

1857 F. W. Stevens Liability of Parties depositing Money ‘at Call’ 9 If it is legal for one Joint Stock Corporation to borrow Money ‘at Call,’ it is legal for another; and if so, what is to prevent the Great Northern Railway Corporation from borrowing Money ‘at Call?’

1952 H. Macmillan Diary 1 Mar. (2003) 148 To have nearly £3000m ‘at call’ and to have some of the huge debt by the Bank to its customers funded, is an impossible position.

1979 Amer. Banker (Nexis) 1 Aug. At-call deposits, normally with an initial term or a notice period of one month.

1988 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 20 June They need money at call to provide flexibility in the case of an emergency.

2015 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 19 Aug. (Money section) 6 A growing number of customers are..putting their cash into at-call accounts that allow withdrawals at any time.

P2. within call: within hearing of a call or summons; near enough to be summoned by a call; (hence) nearby, within reach. Frequently in within call of: within hearing of a specified person's call or summons; near to.

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the world > space > distance > [phrase] > that may be reached > within hail or call

within calla1586

within cry of1632

within hail1697

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella (1591) 30 But thou Desire, because thou wouldst haue all: Now banisht art, but yet within my call.

1596 W. Raleigh Discoverie Guiana (new ed.) 54 We made after them, and ere they could land, came within call, and by our interpreter tolde them what we were.

1623 P. Massinger Duke of Millaine iv. iii. sig. K1^v Be within call.

1690 J. Child Disc. Trade x. 201 It is our Interest..not only to have many Sea-men, but to have them..within call in time of danger.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 182. ⁋6 All the great Beauties we have left in Town, or within Call of it, will be present.

1792 T. Holcroft Anna St. Ives VII. cxxvi. 209 I have just risen to see if the little boy were within call, and find the door is locked upon me!

1832 Ld. Tennyson Dream Fair Women xxviii, in Poems (new ed.) 129 I saw a lady within call.

1921 Good Hardware Dec. 17/1 You have got to reach as many people within call of your shop as is possible.

1998 Irish Times 16 May 22/1 (advt.) A very pretty det[ached] family home if you want to live det[ached] from main stream but within call of Blackrock village amenities.

P3. out of call: too far away to hear a person's call or summons; (hence) distant, out of reach. Cf. out of earshot at earshot n.

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1634 M. Parker Lovers Teares (single sheet) ii Shee's out of sight or out of call, and will not heare me speake at all.

1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. iii. 74 The Devil is seldom out of call when he is wanted for any Mischief.

1823 T. Cosnett Footman's Direct. 194 Persons..can contrive to get an interview with the lady..; therefore never be out of call at such times.

1902 N.Y. Times 27 May 8 The haunts and gathering places of young street toughs are well known to the police, and in those quarters of the city officers of the law should never be out of call.

1995 Furrow June 351 With the [swimmer's] instructor out of call, the surrounding deep seemed overwhelming.

P4. to pay a call.

a. To make a brief visit. Frequently with on, at, or indirect object, specifying the person or place visited.

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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > [verb (intransitive)]

to do one's business1596

to pluck a rose1613

to pay a call1648

to go backward1748

go1804

to do (one's) duty1935

to wash one's hands1938

to spend a penny1945

perform1963

society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > visit [verb (intransitive)]

seekc1200

to call in1573

call1597

to call upon ——1604

to call on ——a1616

visit1626

to make, or pay (also give) a visit1643

to pay a call1648

viz.1767

1648 Mercurius Aulicus 3–10 Feb. sig. B^v I'le pay your tooth-less pipkin, you wizzend-chapt a call; and teach your leather eares prick-song.

1847 A. Brontë Agnes Grey xi. 158 Miss Murray was gone in the carriage with her mamma to pay some morning calls.

1862 E. C. Gaskell Jrnl. Feb. in Fraser's Mag. (1864) Apr. 435/1 We went to-day along the Boulevard Sévastopol, Rive Gauche, to pay a call.

1921 Sat. Evening Post 16 Apr. 88/2 Let's pay her a call and thank her for the wallflowers.

1925 A. Loos Gentlemen prefer Blondes ii. 48 When I found out that girls like that paid calls on Mr. Jennings I had quite a bad case of histerics.

1974 Nation's Business Mar. 41/1 When a major underworld figure dies, FBI agents pay a call at the national headquarters of the Florists' Transworld Delivery Association.

2008 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 26 June 26/1 South Africa's president, Thabo Mbeki, paid a call on Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's beleaguered dictator.

b. British colloquial. To go to the toilet.

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1959 ‘O. Mills’ Stairway to Murder xv. 155 He'd had quite a bit of beer, and I'd an idea he might have to get up and pay a call.

1991 New Beacon (Royal National Inst. Blind) Jan. 27/1 After all this tea drinking I needed to pay a call!

2013 Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Nexis) 20 Aug. 20 After enjoying refreshments at the delightful little cafe next to the Fleece pub we all needed to pay a call.

P5. call to action.

a. Something that incites or provokes activity; a prompt or summons to act.

ΚΠ

1657 J. Tombes Anti-pædobaptism: 3rd Pt. liii. 357 A probability of doing or receiving good, is to me a call to action.

1797 Scots Mag. May 319/1 Both the kind and the degree of improvement which the mind acquires, is suited to the nature and force of the calls to action which our situation presents.

1837 Advocate of Moral Reform 1 May 255/3 When we look abroad throughout our land and see the prevalence of the sin of licentiousness, we think there is a call to action.

1987 R. F. Gorman Coping with Africa's Refugee Burden vii. 153 Sober reflection..should not lead us to a fatalistic passivity. Rather, these daunting problems should be treated as a call to action.

2011 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 25 Sept. (T Style Mag.) 34/2 For them, like so many, the Spanish Civil War was a call to action, putting cafe-table politics to the test.

b. Marketing. Within an advertisement: an instruction to carry out a specific act; a statement or offer designed to encourage consumers to buy a product, visit a shop, etc. Abbreviated CTA.

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1981 N.Y. Times 19 Aug. d18/1 Every advertisement directed at consumers should carry a call to action.

1997 InfoWorld 1 Dec. 87/4 Strong calls to action, such as ‘buy now’, or ‘special today for Internet shoppers only’, will grab the potential customer's attention.

2014 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 15 July When you do advertise, try to include a call to action.

P6. call of duty: that which is required of a person professionally, or in relation to a person's personal duties or moral obligations. Now frequently in (above and) beyond the call of duty: beyond what may reasonably be expected of a person.In early use not a fixed collocation; cf. figurative use of sense 9a.

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1660 Declar. Major Gen. & Officers Ireland (single sheet) Being therefore invited by the highest Call of Duty and Necessity, we resolved.., to restore the Authority of the Parliament.]

1715 I. Watts Guide to Prayer ii. 59 They have then Reason to hope for more special Assistance from the Spirit of God while they obey the Call of Duty.

1799 H. English Conversat. & Amusing Tales i. 28 His wife, the virtuous Sabina,..was ready to submit to the will of her husband, and to resign pleasure at the call of duty.

1875 Munic. Reg. (Taunton, Mass.) 27 The firemen of the city are justly entitled to the highest praise for..their prompt respondences to the call of duty.

1916 School & Home Educ. Jan. 149/1 To this clear call of duty—the duty of courage—no deaf ear would be turned.

1963 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 26 June 14 It is a matter of gross injustice that Bonnie Prince Charlie,..may have received a caning instead of a medal for service to his country above and beyond the call of duty.

1984 P. Fitzgerald Charlotte Mew xiii. 129 Charlotte accordingly threw herself, beyond the call of duty, into house-hunting.

2008 N.Y. Times Mag. 20 Apr. 33/2 We do not compel anyone to rush into a burning building (although we esteem those who do). Such efforts are termed supererogatory, beyond the call of duty.

P7. Islam. call to prayer (also prayers) [ultimately after Arabic aḏān adhan n.] : a call to summon Muslims to worship which is intoned or proclaimed by the muezzin from the minaret or roof of a mosque at prescribed times of the day.In later use sometimes a recording of a muezzin is used.

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1706 tr. Arabian Nights Entertainm. IV. clxv. 145 I heard the last Call to Prayers, and made haste to set out; but the malicious Barber, jealous of my Intention, went with my Servants only within sight of the House.

1788 Edinb. Mag. Nov. 303/1 They repeat in a loud voice the Ezann, or call to prayer, which warns all devout Mussulmen to repair to the mosques, and perform the Namazs.

1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul ii. v. 202 He..stopped the usual call to prayers, and suspended all the ceremonies of religion, as if the country were under an interdict.

1936 M. R. Anand Coolie iii. 86 A mosque with four minarets from which a green-turbaned, white-robed figure, whom he presumed to be a mullah, was bawling out the call to prayers.

1976 Bull. Brit. Soc. Middle Eastern Stud. 3 13 A new and ostentatious mosque, complete with a tape-recorded call to prayer.

2010 Independent Traveller (Nexis) 30 Oct. 4 The muezzin's calls to prayer therefore clash antiphonically with the cathedral's bells, sometimes at quite anti-social hours.

P8. call to quarters: a call, esp. as sounded by a bugle, summoning soldiers to their barracks.

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1823 J. F. Cooper Pilot I. xviii. 245 The drum of the Englishman was now, for the first time, heard, rattling across the waters, and echoing the call to quarters, that had already proceeded from the Ariel.

1944 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 31 30 The call to quarters one hour after sundown was the signal for study until tattoo, which gave warning to prepare for sleep.

2011 G. Bethlenfalvay In Search of Amer. i. 27 The plaintive chords of a distant bugle call wafting through mild waves of dusking evening air. They are the call to quarters of the Seventh Infantry Battalion.

†P9. to have the call.

a. Of a commercial product: to be in the greatest demand; to be the most popular; to be the favourite. Frequently more fully in to have the call of the market. Also in extended use. Cf. sense 10a. Obsolete.

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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > quality of being approvable or acceptable > be approved or gain acceptance [verb (intransitive)] > gain greatest acceptance

to have the call1834

1834 Morning Post 23 June 4/3 Very superfine hog wool evidently has the call of the market.

1840 Fraser's Mag. 22 674 Youth has the call.

1876 F. Francis Bk. Angling (ed. 4) i. 29 Boiled wheat has the call.

1885 Brit. Trade Jrnl. Monthly Consular Suppl. 1 July 6/1 They cost much less than the French products, and consequently have the call of the market.

1908 Engin. & Mining Jrnl. 14 Nov. 984/2 In finished material structural steel has the call.

1917 Amer. Florist 14 Apr. 689/1 Easter lilies had the call as usual. Roses and carnations were the least popular.

b. Whist. In long whist: to be in a position which entitles one to call honours. See call v. 20a. Obsolete.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > whist > play whist [verb (intransitive)] > actions or tactics

finesse1742

to cut in1760

to cut out1771

to save one's pomp1788

to have the call1863

peter1887

cross-ruff1958

1863 G. F. Pardon Hoyle's Games Modernized 18 The partners having eight points are said to have the call.

单词	call to action
释义	> as lemmas call to action Phrases P1. at call. a. Also at a person's call. Ready to answer a call or summons; (hence) immediately available, at a person's disposal. Cf. on call adv. ΚΠ 1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lxxviii. sig. Ggiii My yong cosin spider was with me here:To cum to his father: my hunkle: at call. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie Pref. 34 To be alwayes at the call..of a number of mean persons. 1632 P. Massinger & N. Field Fatall Dowry iii. sig. G A true friend at a call. 1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells vii. 419 There she was seated in a chaire of state, And Ladies readie at her call to wait. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xx. 542 Those that subscribed to be at all calls. 1759 J. Hanway Reasons for Augmentation of 12,000 Mariners iv. xxiv. 90 The keeping 15 or 20,000 seamen upon half pay..with condition to be ready at call. 1859 G. T. Robertson & J. R. Green Oxf. during Last Cent. 49/1 Shabbily-genteel toadeaters, ready at his call. 1885 Manch. Examiner 20 July 5/5 An unconscious desire to possess gold at call. 1952 T. Armstrong Adam Brunskill xii. 403 The room was warm and, tobacco jar at call and beer available when required, there was little disposition to face the keen easterly wind. 1992 R. Manning Swamp Root Chron. xvii. 285 A USIS photographer was at her call night and day to record the Johnson presidency. 2001 Australian (Nexis) 14 Nov. 35 What will happen to their dedicated staff who are always at call for discussion on assignments? b. Finance. (a) Upon demand of repayment; on the understanding that money borrowed must be repaid on demand or at short notice; (b) attributive of or relating to money that is repayable or withdrawable on demand or at short notice. ΚΠ 1673At call [see sense 13a]. 1843 Monthly Commerc. Chron. 1 Jan. 78 Money..placed at call with well-known and substantial firms. 1857 F. W. Stevens Liability of Parties depositing Money ‘at Call’ 9 If it is legal for one Joint Stock Corporation to borrow Money ‘at Call,’ it is legal for another; and if so, what is to prevent the Great Northern Railway Corporation from borrowing Money ‘at Call?’ 1952 H. Macmillan Diary 1 Mar. (2003) 148 To have nearly £3000m ‘at call’ and to have some of the huge debt by the Bank to its customers funded, is an impossible position. 1979 Amer. Banker (Nexis) 1 Aug. At-call deposits, normally with an initial term or a notice period of one month. 1988 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 20 June They need money at call to provide flexibility in the case of an emergency. 2015 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 19 Aug. (Money section) 6 A growing number of customers are..putting their cash into at-call accounts that allow withdrawals at any time. P2. within call: within hearing of a call or summons; near enough to be summoned by a call; (hence) nearby, within reach. Frequently in within call of: within hearing of a specified person's call or summons; near to. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > [phrase] > that may be reached > within hail or call within calla1586 within cry of1632 within hail1697 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella (1591) 30 But thou Desire, because thou wouldst haue all: Now banisht art, but yet within my call. 1596 W. Raleigh Discoverie Guiana (new ed.) 54 We made after them, and ere they could land, came within call, and by our interpreter tolde them what we were. 1623 P. Massinger Duke of Millaine iv. iii. sig. K1^v Be within call. 1690 J. Child Disc. Trade x. 201 It is our Interest..not only to have many Sea-men, but to have them..within call in time of danger. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 182. ⁋6 All the great Beauties we have left in Town, or within Call of it, will be present. 1792 T. Holcroft Anna St. Ives VII. cxxvi. 209 I have just risen to see if the little boy were within call, and find the door is locked upon me! 1832 Ld. Tennyson Dream Fair Women xxviii, in Poems (new ed.) 129 I saw a lady within call. 1921 Good Hardware Dec. 17/1 You have got to reach as many people within call of your shop as is possible. 1998 Irish Times 16 May 22/1 (advt.) A very pretty det[ached] family home if you want to live det[ached] from main stream but within call of Blackrock village amenities. P3. out of call: too far away to hear a person's call or summons; (hence) distant, out of reach. Cf. out of earshot at earshot n. ΚΠ 1634 M. Parker Lovers Teares (single sheet) ii Shee's out of sight or out of call, and will not heare me speake at all. 1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. iii. 74 The Devil is seldom out of call when he is wanted for any Mischief. 1823 T. Cosnett Footman's Direct. 194 Persons..can contrive to get an interview with the lady..; therefore never be out of call at such times. 1902 N.Y. Times 27 May 8 The haunts and gathering places of young street toughs are well known to the police, and in those quarters of the city officers of the law should never be out of call. 1995 Furrow June 351 With the [swimmer's] instructor out of call, the surrounding deep seemed overwhelming. P4. to pay a call. a. To make a brief visit. Frequently with on, at, or indirect object, specifying the person or place visited. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > [verb (intransitive)] to do one's business1596 to pluck a rose1613 to pay a call1648 to go backward1748 go1804 to do (one's) duty1935 to wash one's hands1938 to spend a penny1945 perform1963 society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > visit [verb (intransitive)] seekc1200 to call in1573 call1597 to call upon ——1604 to call on ——a1616 visit1626 to make, or pay (also give) a visit1643 to pay a call1648 viz.1767 1648 Mercurius Aulicus 3–10 Feb. sig. B^v I'le pay your tooth-less pipkin, you wizzend-chapt a call; and teach your leather eares prick-song. 1847 A. Brontë Agnes Grey xi. 158 Miss Murray was gone in the carriage with her mamma to pay some morning calls. 1862 E. C. Gaskell Jrnl. Feb. in Fraser's Mag. (1864) Apr. 435/1 We went to-day along the Boulevard Sévastopol, Rive Gauche, to pay a call. 1921 Sat. Evening Post 16 Apr. 88/2 Let's pay her a call and thank her for the wallflowers. 1925 A. Loos Gentlemen prefer Blondes ii. 48 When I found out that girls like that paid calls on Mr. Jennings I had quite a bad case of histerics. 1974 Nation's Business Mar. 41/1 When a major underworld figure dies, FBI agents pay a call at the national headquarters of the Florists' Transworld Delivery Association. 2008 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 26 June 26/1 South Africa's president, Thabo Mbeki, paid a call on Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's beleaguered dictator. b. British colloquial. To go to the toilet. ΚΠ 1959 ‘O. Mills’ Stairway to Murder xv. 155 He'd had quite a bit of beer, and I'd an idea he might have to get up and pay a call. 1991 New Beacon (Royal National Inst. Blind) Jan. 27/1 After all this tea drinking I needed to pay a call! 2013 Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Nexis) 20 Aug. 20 After enjoying refreshments at the delightful little cafe next to the Fleece pub we all needed to pay a call. P5. call to action. a. Something that incites or provokes activity; a prompt or summons to act. ΚΠ 1657 J. Tombes Anti-pædobaptism: 3rd Pt. liii. 357 A probability of doing or receiving good, is to me a call to action. 1797 Scots Mag. May 319/1 Both the kind and the degree of improvement which the mind acquires, is suited to the nature and force of the calls to action which our situation presents. 1837 Advocate of Moral Reform 1 May 255/3 When we look abroad throughout our land and see the prevalence of the sin of licentiousness, we think there is a call to action. 1987 R. F. Gorman Coping with Africa's Refugee Burden vii. 153 Sober reflection..should not lead us to a fatalistic passivity. Rather, these daunting problems should be treated as a call to action. 2011 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 25 Sept. (T Style Mag.) 34/2 For them, like so many, the Spanish Civil War was a call to action, putting cafe-table politics to the test. b. Marketing. Within an advertisement: an instruction to carry out a specific act; a statement or offer designed to encourage consumers to buy a product, visit a shop, etc. Abbreviated CTA. ΚΠ 1981 N.Y. Times 19 Aug. d18/1 Every advertisement directed at consumers should carry a call to action. 1997 InfoWorld 1 Dec. 87/4 Strong calls to action, such as ‘buy now’, or ‘special today for Internet shoppers only’, will grab the potential customer's attention. 2014 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 15 July When you do advertise, try to include a call to action. P6. call of duty: that which is required of a person professionally, or in relation to a person's personal duties or moral obligations. Now frequently in (above and) beyond the call of duty: beyond what may reasonably be expected of a person.In early use not a fixed collocation; cf. figurative use of sense 9a. ΚΠ 1660 Declar. Major Gen. & Officers Ireland (single sheet) Being therefore invited by the highest Call of Duty and Necessity, we resolved.., to restore the Authority of the Parliament.] 1715 I. Watts Guide to Prayer ii. 59 They have then Reason to hope for more special Assistance from the Spirit of God while they obey the Call of Duty. 1799 H. English Conversat. & Amusing Tales i. 28 His wife, the virtuous Sabina,..was ready to submit to the will of her husband, and to resign pleasure at the call of duty. 1875 Munic. Reg. (Taunton, Mass.) 27 The firemen of the city are justly entitled to the highest praise for..their prompt respondences to the call of duty. 1916 School & Home Educ. Jan. 149/1 To this clear call of duty—the duty of courage—no deaf ear would be turned. 1963 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 26 June 14 It is a matter of gross injustice that Bonnie Prince Charlie,..may have received a caning instead of a medal for service to his country above and beyond the call of duty. 1984 P. Fitzgerald Charlotte Mew xiii. 129 Charlotte accordingly threw herself, beyond the call of duty, into house-hunting. 2008 N.Y. Times Mag. 20 Apr. 33/2 We do not compel anyone to rush into a burning building (although we esteem those who do). Such efforts are termed supererogatory, beyond the call of duty. P7. Islam. call to prayer (also prayers) [ultimately after Arabic aḏān adhan n.] : a call to summon Muslims to worship which is intoned or proclaimed by the muezzin from the minaret or roof of a mosque at prescribed times of the day.In later use sometimes a recording of a muezzin is used. ΚΠ 1706 tr. Arabian Nights Entertainm. IV. clxv. 145 I heard the last Call to Prayers, and made haste to set out; but the malicious Barber, jealous of my Intention, went with my Servants only within sight of the House. 1788 Edinb. Mag. Nov. 303/1 They repeat in a loud voice the Ezann, or call to prayer, which warns all devout Mussulmen to repair to the mosques, and perform the Namazs. 1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul ii. v. 202 He..stopped the usual call to prayers, and suspended all the ceremonies of religion, as if the country were under an interdict. 1936 M. R. Anand Coolie iii. 86 A mosque with four minarets from which a green-turbaned, white-robed figure, whom he presumed to be a mullah, was bawling out the call to prayers. 1976 Bull. Brit. Soc. Middle Eastern Stud. 3 13 A new and ostentatious mosque, complete with a tape-recorded call to prayer. 2010 Independent Traveller (Nexis) 30 Oct. 4 The muezzin's calls to prayer therefore clash antiphonically with the cathedral's bells, sometimes at quite anti-social hours. P8. call to quarters: a call, esp. as sounded by a bugle, summoning soldiers to their barracks. ΚΠ 1823 J. F. Cooper Pilot I. xviii. 245 The drum of the Englishman was now, for the first time, heard, rattling across the waters, and echoing the call to quarters, that had already proceeded from the Ariel. 1944 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 31 30 The call to quarters one hour after sundown was the signal for study until tattoo, which gave warning to prepare for sleep. 2011 G. Bethlenfalvay In Search of Amer. i. 27 The plaintive chords of a distant bugle call wafting through mild waves of dusking evening air. They are the call to quarters of the Seventh Infantry Battalion. †P9. to have the call. a. Of a commercial product: to be in the greatest demand; to be the most popular; to be the favourite. Frequently more fully in to have the call of the market. Also in extended use. Cf. sense 10a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > quality of being approvable or acceptable > be approved or gain acceptance [verb (intransitive)] > gain greatest acceptance to have the call1834 1834 Morning Post 23 June 4/3 Very superfine hog wool evidently has the call of the market. 1840 Fraser's Mag. 22 674 Youth has the call. 1876 F. Francis Bk. Angling (ed. 4) i. 29 Boiled wheat has the call. 1885 Brit. Trade Jrnl. Monthly Consular Suppl. 1 July 6/1 They cost much less than the French products, and consequently have the call of the market. 1908 Engin. & Mining Jrnl. 14 Nov. 984/2 In finished material structural steel has the call. 1917 Amer. Florist 14 Apr. 689/1 Easter lilies had the call as usual. Roses and carnations were the least popular. b. Whist. In long whist: to be in a position which entitles one to call honours. See call v. 20a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > whist > play whist [verb (intransitive)] > actions or tactics finesse1742 to cut in1760 to cut out1771 to save one's pomp1788 to have the call1863 peter1887 cross-ruff1958 1863 G. F. Pardon Hoyle's Games Modernized 18 The partners having eight points are said to have the call. extracted from calln. < as lemmas
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