call
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Definitions ofcall
- A telephone conversation.
Example: "I received several calls today."
- A short visit, usually for social purposes.
Example: "I paid a call to a dear friend of mine."
- A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
Example: "The ship made a call at Southampton."
- A cry or shout.
Example: "He heard a call from the other side of the room."
- A decision or judgement.
Example: "That was a good call."
- The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
Example: "That sound is the distinctive call of the cuckoo bird."
- A beckoning or summoning.
Example: "I had to yield to the call of the wild."
- The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
Example: "I give the call to the Manager of Opposition Business."
- An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
- The act of calling to the other batsman.
- The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
- A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).
- The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
- A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
Example: "There was a 20 dollar bet on the table, and my call was 9."
- The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
- A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
- A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
- A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
- An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
- Vocation; employment; calling.
- 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.
- (prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
- (heading) To use one's voice.
- (heading) To visit.
- (heading) To name, identify or describe.
- (heading) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
- (sometimes with for) To require, demand.
Example: "He felt called to help the old man."
- To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
- To demand repayment of a loan.
- To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
Example: "A recursive function is one that calls itself."
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