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Definition call

Etymology

From Middle English callen, from Old English ceallian (“to call, shout”) and Old Norse kalla (“to call; shout; refer to as; name”); both from Proto-Germanic *kalz?n? (“to call, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *gal(o)s-, *gl?s-, *golH-so- (“voice, cry”). Cognate with Scots call, caw, ca (“to call, cry, shout”), Dutch kallen (“to chat, talk”), German dialectal kallen (“to talk; talk loudly or too much”), Swedish kalla (“to call, refer to, beckon”), Norwegian kalle (“to call, name”), Icelandic kalla (“to call, shout, name”), Latin gl?ria (“fame, honour, glory”), Welsh galw (“to call, demand”), Polish g?os (“voice”), Lithuanian gal?sas (“echo”), Russian ????? (golos, “voice”). More at glory.

Noun

call (plural calls)

  1. A telephone conversation.
  2. A short visit, usually for social purposes.
  3. (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
  4. A cry or shout.
  5. A decision or judgement.
  6. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
  7. A beckoning or summoning.
  8. The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
  9. (finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
  10. (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
  11. (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
  12. A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).
  13. (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
  14. A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
  15. (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
  16. A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
  17. (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
  18. A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
  19. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
  20. (archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.
  21. (US, 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.
  22. (informal, slang, prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.

Verb

call (third-person singular simple present calls, present participle calling, simple past and past participle called or call'd)

  1. (heading) To use one's voice.
    1. (intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon.
    2. (intransitive) To cry or shout.
    3. (transitive) To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
    4. (transitive, intransitive) To contact by telephone.
    5. (transitive) To declare in advance.
    6. To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
    7. To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.
  2. (heading, intransitive) To visit.
    1. To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).
    2. To stop at a station or port.
  3. (heading) To name, identify or describe.
    1. (ditransitive) To name or refer to.
    2. (in passive) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
    3. (transitive) To predict.
    4. To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
    5. (obsolete) To disclose the class or character of; to identify.
  4. (heading, sports) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
    1. (cricket) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
    2. (baseball, cricket) (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).
    3. (intransitive, poker) To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.
    4. (intransitive, poker, proscribed) To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.)
    5. (transitive) To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
  5. (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
  6. (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
  7. (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
  8. (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.

Results 336 Words with the letters CALL

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8 letter words with the letters CALL 
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6 letter words with the letters CALL 
CALLAN 12
CALLAS 11
CALLED 12
CALLER 11
CALLET 11
CALLOW 14
CALLUS 12
CALMLY 16
CELLAE 11
CELLAR 11
CHALLA 13
CHALLY 15
CHOLLA 13
CLINAL 12
CLONAL 12
COLLAR 11
CULLAY 14
GALLIC 13
LACILY 13
LAICAL 11
LILACS 11
LOCALE 11
LOCALS 11
PLICAL 14
RECALL 11
SCALLS 11
SCILLA 11
SULCAL 12
5 letter words with the letters CALL 
CALLA 10
CALLS 10
CELLA 10
LILAC 10
LOCAL 10
SCALL 10
4 letter words with the letters CALL 
CALL 9
3 letter words with the letters CALL 
ALL 5
LAC 7
2 letter words with the letters CALL 
AL 3
LA 3

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