Etymology : Middle English, from Old Norse kalla; akin to Old English hildecalla battle herald, Old High German kallOn to talk loudly, Old Church Slavonic glasu voice
Pronunciation : kol
Function : verb
Date : before 12th century
1. cry; telephone conversation; visit; ring; invitation; claim; need. shout; cry; invite; make a telephone call; visit. referring to someone or something that can be called. to claim ownership, at least temporarily. 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. kallōn to call; cf. gr. ghry`ein to speak, sing, skr. gar to praise. cf. garrulous.].
2. to command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. call hither clifford; bid him come amain.
3. 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. paul called to be an apostle i.
4. the holy ghost said, separate me barnabas and saul for the work whereunto i have called them. xiii.
5. 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. now call we our high court of parliament.
6. to give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name. if you would but call me rosalind. and god called the light day, and the darkness he called night. i.
7. 5. to regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate. what god hath cleansed, that call not thou common. x.
8. 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. [the] army is called seven hundred thousand men.
9. to show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of. [obs.] this speech calls him spaniard. & fl.
10. 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. no parish clerk who calls the psalm so clear.
11. to invoke; to appeal to. i call god for a witness. i. 23 [rev. ver. ].
12. to rouse from sleep; to awaken. if thou canst awake by four o' the clock. i prithee call me. sleep hath seized me wholly.
13. To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name.
17. To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate.
18. 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.
19. To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of.
20. 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.
21. To invoke; to appeal to.
22. To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
23. To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; sometimes with to.
24. To make a demand, requirement, or request.
25. To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders.
26. 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.
27. A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty.
28. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
29. A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case; a moral requirement or appeal.
30. A divine vocation or summons.
31. Vocation; employment.
32. A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders.
33. A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds.
34. A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty.
35. 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.
36. 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.
37. The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on.
38. See Assessment, 4. the decision made by an umpire or referee; "he was ejected for protesting the call" brief visit in an official or professional capacity; "the pastor's visits to his parishioners"; "a visit to a dentist"; "the salesman's call on a customer" a brief social visit; "senior professors' wives no longer make afternoon calls on newcomers" a special disposition to pursue a particular course; "he was disappointed that he had not heard the Call" 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" an instruction that interrupts the program being executed; "Pascal performs calls by simply giving the name of the routine to be executed" a request; "many calls for Christmas stories"; "not many calls for buggywhips" a demand especially in the phrase "the call of duty" a demand for a show of hands in a card game; "after two raises there was a call" rouse somebody from sleep with a call; "I was called at 5 A.M. this morning" consider or regard as being; "I would not call her beautiful" challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of; "call the speaker on a question of fact" utter in a loud voice or announce; "He called my name"; "The auctioneer called the bids" 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" order or request or give a command for; "The unions called a general strike for Sunday" lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal; "Call ducks" get or try to get into communication by telephone; "I tried to call you all night"; "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning" order, request, or command to come; "She was called into the director's office"; "Call the police!" declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee; "call a runner out" challenge to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense; "He deserves to be called on that" require the presentation of for redemption before maturation; "Call a bond" 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" utter a characteristic note or cry; "bluejays called to one another" 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" read aloud to check for omissions or absentees; "Call roll" indicate a decision in regard to; "call balls and strikes behind the plate" give the calls for a square dance demand payment of ; "Call a loan" 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" make a stop in a harbour; "The ship will call in Honolulu tomorrow" stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather; "call a football game".
39. 1. If you call someone or something by a particular name or title, you give them that name or title. `Doctor' --- `Will you please call me Sarah?' Everybody called each other by their surnames. + called called There are two men called Buckley at the Home Office. a device called an optical amplifier.
40. If you call someone or something a particular thing, you suggest they are that thing or describe them as that thing. The speech was interrupted by members of the Conservative Party, who called him a traitor She calls me lazy and selfish He called it particularly cynical to begin releasing the hostages on Christmas Day Anyone can call themselves a psychotherapist.
41. If you call something, you say it in a loud voice, because you are trying to attract someone's attention. He could hear the others downstairs in different parts of the house calling his name `Boys!' she called again. Call out means the same as call. The butcher's son called out a greeting The train stopped and a porter called out, `Middlesbrough!'.
42. If you call someone, you telephone them. Would you call me as soon as you find out? A friend of mine gave me this number to call `May I speak with Mr Coyne, please?' --- `May I ask who's calling?' = phone.
43. If you call someone such as a doctor or the police, you ask them to come to you, usually by telephoning them. He screamed for his wife to call an ambulance One night he was called to see:
a woman with tuberculosis.
44. If you call someone, you ask them to come to you by shouting to them. She called her young son: `Here, Stephen, come and look at this!' He called me over the Tannoy.
45. When you make a telephone call, you telephone someone. I made a phone call to the United States to talk to a friend I've had hundreds of calls from other victims.
46. If someone in authority calls something such as a meeting, rehearsal, or election, they arrange for it to take place at a particular time. The Committee decided to call a meeting of the All India Congress The RSC was calling a press conference to announce the theatre's closure.
47. If someone is called before a court or committee, they are ordered to appear there, usually to give evidence. The child waited two hours before she was called to give evidence I was called as an expert witness. = summon.
48. If you call somewhere, you make a short visit there. A market researcher called at the house where he was living Andrew now came almost weekly to call. Call is also a noun. He decided to pay a call on Tommy Cummings.
49. When a train, bus, or ship calls somewhere, it stops there for a short time to allow people to get on or off. The steamer calls at several ports along the way.
50. To call a game or sporting event means to cancel it, for example because of rain or bad light. We called the next game. = call off.
51. If there is a call for something, someone demands that it should happen. There have been calls for a new kind of security arrangement Almost all workers heeded a call by the trade unions to stay at home for the duration of the strike.
52. If there is little or no call for something, very few people want it to be done or provided. `Have you got just plain chocolate?' --- `No, I'm afraid there's not much call for that.' = demand.
53. The call of something such as a place is the way it attracts or interests you strongly. = pull, lure.
54. The call of a particular bird or animal is the characteristic sound that it makes. a wide range of animal noises and bird calls. see also:
calling, so-called.
55. disapproval If you say that there is no call for someone to behave in a particular way, you are criticizing their behaviour, usually because you think it is rude. There was no call for him to single you out from all the others. = there is no need for.
56. If someone is on call, they are ready to go to work at any time if they are needed, especially if there is an emergency. In theory I'm on call day and night. a doctor on call.
57. If you call in sick, you telephone the place where you work to tell them you will not be coming to work because you are ill. `Shouldn't you be at work today?' --- `I called in sick.'.
58. to call someone's bluff: see:
bluff to call it a day: see day to call a halt: see halt to call something to mind: see mind call of nature: see nature to call something your own: see own to call something into question: see question to call it quits: see quit to call a spade a spade: see spade to call the tune: see tune too close to call: see close. computer-assisted language learning the use of computers to help people learn foreign languages.
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