call

Meaning

Verb

1. To use one's voice.
2. To use one's voice.
3. To use one's voice.
4. To use one's voice.
5. To use one's voice.
6. To use one's voice.
7. To use one's voice.
8. To use one's voice.
9. To visit.
10. To visit.
11. To visit.
12. To name, identify or describe.
13. To name, identify or describe.
14. To name, identify or describe.
15. To name, identify or describe.
16. To name, identify or describe.
17. To name, identify or describe.
18. (obsolete) To name, identify or describe.
19. Direct or indirect use of the voice.
20. Direct or indirect use of the voice.
21. Direct or indirect use of the voice.
22. Direct or indirect use of the voice.
23. Direct or indirect use of the voice.
24. To require, demand.
25. To cause to be verbally subjected to.
26. (colloquial) To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
27. To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
28. To demand repayment of a loan.
29. To jump to (another part of a program); to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
30. To scold.
31. To make a decision as a referee or umpire.
32. To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.

Noun

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

Concepts

call

summon

name

shout

invite

visit

cry

phone

summons

yell

designate

telephone

scream

call out

ring

invitation

demand

invoke

appeal

send for

call up

hail

call in

request

beckon

ask

claim

sing

term

address

phone call

cry out

call for

convoke

anticipate

holler

calling

telephone call

dub

foretell

order

bawl

announce

say

call by telephone

roar

call together

call option

forebode

predict

prognosticate

evoke

whoop

hollo

promise

outcry

halloo

shout to

clamour

ring up

lure

label

chirp

accost

wake

entitle

style

shout out

squall

call off

bid

birdcall

birdsong

song

vociferation

margin call

ask for

need

convocation

require

call to

bark

call on

clamor

talk

refer to

make

raise

tell

make a sound

bellow

bleat

bray

neigh

squeal

remind

forecast

sound

voice

note

communication

contacting

getting in touch

message

go

subpoena

inquiry

recall

denominate

cry out for

shouting

give a name

visiting

signal

convene

assemble

ground

solicit

address as

warning

cause

give a name to

bidding

invocation

read

call to prayer

tell to

make noise

rumble

cry for help

give a ring

give a bell

give a call

figure

give

judge

referee

arouse

enkindle

excite

provoke

stir up

hit

page

refer

exclaim

drop by

state

doom

sentence

command

entail

insist

greet

make do

receive

gather

proclaim

attract

draw

declare

come to see

nickname

growl

moo

vociferate

whinny

tour

appeal to

call for committed funds

recollect

have in

have over

foresee

coo

warble

chirping

short visit

characteristic cry or way of speaking

come

divine call

send

reserve

advent

arrival

enquiry

consulting the oracle

question

call someone by signals

assume a name

choose a name

screech

awake

baptize

brand

appointment

meeting

alarm

paying a visit

roll-call

reckon

consider

application

draft

attend

see

summoning

shout at

call towards one

keep at one’

keep calling

call in make-believe

pull

full

notice

causation

occasion

reason

sake

visitation

dial

arraignment

evisceration

evocation

encore

conversation

squawk

yawp

vox

speech

invoke request

solicit request

tune in

redeem

redemption

retirement

call telephony

talking

drop anchor

act of calling

call to come

describe

plea

prohibition

to

attendance

stay

necessity

challenge

on

against

title

cite

adress

appraise

approximate

assess

critique

estimate

evaluate

gauge

guesstimate

rate

regard

review

take stock

valuate

value

activate

bring around

get up

hasten

kindle

stir

suggest

waken

ecphonesis

ejaculation

exclaiming

exclamation

interjection

ejaculate

lift

look

viewing

action

gait

walk

ask in

call down

go under

induct

beat up

compere

step out

aberrate

call at

deflect

depart

deviate

differ

digress

out in

poke into

stray

vary

yaw

telephone conversation

asking

petition

solicitation

mouth

posit

put

put forward

submit

blow

busk

fiddle

play

play back

spiel

strike

strike up

bell

bowing

toll

adjudication

condemnation

decree

finding of fact

general verdict

judgement

judgment

judgment of conviction

proscription

verdict

adjudge

adjudicate

anathematise

anathematize

comminate

condemn

convict

denounce

deplore

deprecate

disapprove

execrate

pass judgment

reprobate

arrogate

bear on

exact

govern

press

stipulate

suppose

take

urge

insistency

laying claim

prayer

qualification

requirement

stipulation

commend

conjure

plead

turn

sojourn

hoot

cure

get

accuse

confess

make a phone call

slogan

make sound

list

mention

keemwun keemle

stopover

exhortation

rally

vouch

drop in

look in

look up

pay visit

bile

speak

call over

escort

lead

sigh

appellation

ask to come

appoint to

caller

comer

guest

invitee

tourist

visitant

visitor

vociferance

queep

chirr

conceive

envision

imagine

meditate

reflect

think

bring about

create

do

engender

eventuate

induce

set up

yield

educe

relive

rouse

calculate

expect

foreknow

previse

beg

bespeak

desire

necessitate

postulate

reclaim

want

whinge

enounce

herald

promulgate

relate

tell of

instruct

select

marry

call by name

anxious

dazed

chant

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɔːl/

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 *kalzōną (“to call, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *golH-so- (“voice, cry”), from *gel(H)- (“to vocalize, call, shout”).
cognates
* Scots call
* caw, ca (“to call, cry, shout”)
* Dutch kallen (“to chat, talk”),
* German kallen (“to call”) obsolete
* Swedish kalla (“to call, refer to, beckon”)
* Norwegian kalle (“to call, name”)
* Danish kalde (“to call, name”)
* Icelandic kalla (“to call, shout, name”)
* Welsh galw (“to call, demand”)
* Polish głos (“voice”)
* Lithuanian gal̃sas (“echo”)
* Russian голос (golos, “voice”)
* Albanian gjuhë (“language, tongue”).