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Verb: call kol- Assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
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Noun: call kol- 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"
- phone call, telephone call - A loud utterance; often in protest or opposition
- cry, outcry, yell, shout, vociferation - A demand especially in the phrase "the call of duty"
- claim - The characteristic sound produced by a bird
- birdcall, birdsong, song - 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 parlour of some residence" - A demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement
- margin call - A demand for a show of hands in a card game
"after two raises there was a call" - A request
"many calls for Christmas stories"; "not many calls for buggywhips" - An instruction that interrupts the program being executed
"Pascal performs calls by simply giving the name of the routine to be executed" - A visit in an official or professional capacity
"the pastor's calls on his parishioners"; "the salesman's call on a customer" - (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee
"he was ejected for protesting the call" - The option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
- call option
Noun: Call- A special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course
"he was disappointed that he had not heard the Call"
Sounds like: caul Derived forms: calls, calling, called See also: call forth, call out, call up, callable, caller, calling Type of: address, adjudge, animal communication, arouse, ask, asking, awaken, bespeak, call for, challenge, command, conclusion, consider, decision, declare, defer, demand, determination, disposition, dispute, emit, enjoin, entice, exact, expect, gainsay, get together, guess, hazard, hold, hold over, inclination, indicate, instruction, label, let loose, let out, lure, meet, option, order, play, postpone, pretend, program line, prorogue, put off, put over, quest, read, reckon, regard, remit, request, require, rouse, say, see, set back, shelve, statement, stop, stop over, table [N. Amer], telecommunicate, telephone, telephony, tell, tempt, tendency, turn to, utter, utterance, venture, view, visit, vocalization, wake, wake up, waken Part of: card game, cards, span, straddle Encyclopedia: Call |