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Definitions of call:

noun: (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee
Example: "He was ejected for protesting the call"
noun: brief visit in an official or professional capacity
Example: "The salesman's call on a customer"
noun: a brief social visit
Example: "Senior professors' wives no longer make afternoon calls on newcomers"
noun: a special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course
Example: "He was disappointed that he had not heard the Call"
noun: a telephone connection
Example: "She reported several anonymous calls"
noun: an instruction that interrupts the program being executed
Example: "Pascal performs calls by simply giving the name of the routine to be executed"
noun: a request
Example: "Many calls for Christmas stories"
noun: a demand especially in the phrase "the call of duty"
noun: a demand for a show of hands in a card game
Example: "After two raises there was a call"
noun: the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
noun: the characteristic sound produced by a bird
noun: a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement
noun: a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition
verb: demand payment of (a loan)
Example: "Call a loan"
verb: call a meeting; invite or command to meet
Example: "The Wannsee Conference was called to discuss the `Final Solution'"
verb: make a stop in a harbour
Example: "The ship will call in Honolulu tomorrow"
verb: stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather
Example: "Call a football game"
verb: consider or regard as being
Example: "I would not call her beautiful"
verb: challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of
Example: "Call the speaker on a question of fact"
verb: utter in a loud voice or announce
Example: "He called my name"
verb: order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role
Example: "He was already called 4 times for jury duty"
verb: order or request or give a command for
Example: "The unions called a general strike for Sunday"
verb: lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal
Example: "Call ducks"
verb: get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
Example: "I tried to call you all night"
verb: order, request, or command to come
Example: "She was called into the director's office"
verb: declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee
Example: "Call a runner out"
verb: challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense
Example: "He deserves to be called on that"
verb: require the presentation of for redemption before maturation
Example: "Call a bond"
verb: ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality
Example: "He called me a bastard"
verb: utter a characteristic note or cry
Example: "Bluejays called to one another"
verb: send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc.; make a signal to in order to transmit a message
Example: "Hawaii is calling!"
verb: read aloud to check for omissions or absentees
Example: "Call roll"
verb: indicate a decision in regard to
Example: "Call balls and strikes behind the plate"
verb: rouse somebody from sleep with a call
Example: "I was called at 5 A.M. this morning"
verb: give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance
verb: make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands
Example: "He called his trump"
verb: greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name
Example: "Call me Mister"
verb: assign a specified, proper name to
verb: pay a brief visit
Example: "The mayor likes to call on some of the prominent citizens"
verb: utter a sudden loud cry
verb: make a prediction about; tell in advance
Example: "Call the outcome of an election"
name: A surname (common: 1 in 16666 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #1974)

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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to call: (346 results)
Synonyms:
anticipate, bid, birdcall, birdsong, call in, call off, call option, call up, claim, cry, forebode, foretell, holler, hollo, margin call, name, outcry, phone, phone call, predict, prognosticate, promise, ring, scream, send for, shout, shout out, song, telephone, telephone call, visit, vociferation, yell

Part of:
card game, cards, span, straddle

More general:
animal communication, arouse, asking, awaken, challenge, command, conclusion, consider, decision, defer, demand, determination, dial, disposition, dispute, emit, entice, gainsay, get together, guess, hazard, hold over, inclination, indicate, instruction, label, let loose, let out, lure, meet, option, order, play, postpone, program line, put off, put over, read, reckon, regard, remit, request, rouse, see, set back, shelve, square dance, statement, table, telephony, tempt, tendency, utter, utterance, venture, view, waken, wake up

More specific:
address, augur, baptise, baptize, battle cry, bellow, bellowing, bet, bird, boo, brand, bronx cheer, calculate, call-back, call for, catcall, christen, cite, clamor, clamoring, clamour, clamouring, collect call, come by, conference call, crank call, drop by, drop in, dub, entitle, forecast, function call, hail, halloo, hang on, hiss, hold on, hold the line, holla, hollering, holloa, hoot, hosanna, howl, hue and cry, hurrah, lift, local call, long-distance, long-distance call, miscall, misname, mobilize, muster, nickname, outbid, outcall, outguess, overbid, pipe, pipe up, post, preempt, prophesy, raise, rally, rallying cry, raspberry, razzing, rename, roar, roaring, round, screak, screaming, screech, screeching, scriech, secondguess, send in, shouting, shriek, shrieking, shrill, skreak, skreigh, skriech, snort, squawk, style, summon, summons, supervisor call instruction, system call, tag, term, title, trunk call, ululate, underbid, wager, wail, war cry, war whoop, whoop, yawl, yelling, yodel, yowl, yowling

Antonyms:
put, put option

Appears in the definition of:
ad agency, advertise, advertising agency, advertize, apus apus, aramus pictus, arraign, attendance check, bagman, barking frog, beg, bellbird, bell magpie, bless, bobwhite, bobwhite quail, bother, break in, breed, buzz, call back, call forth, call out, captious, carolina wren, catbird, chat, chorus frog, collect, commemorate, commercial traveler, commercial traveller, congressional medal of honor, convene, convoke, count off, covered option, cricket frog, critical, crow, cuckoo, cuckoo clock, cuculus canorus, currawong, cygnus cygnus, dare, dickeybird, dickybird, dumetella carolinensis, echo, elicit, engender, enkindle, eskimo, esquimau, european cuckoo, european swift, evoke, fancy man, faultfinding, fire, general delivery, gray catbird, grus americana, home reserve, hyla crucifer, hylactophryne augusti, implore, inconvenience oneself, inuit, jackass penguin, kick up, kindle, limpkin, magpie, mail call, medal of honor, mourning dove, muster call, naked option, national guard, new world chat, old world chat, oppugn, page, paint a picture, pandar, pander, panderer, partridge, phoner, pimp, ponce, poste restante, pray, procurer, provoke, publicize, put through, question, recursive routine, remember, retreat, reveille, roadman, robber frog, sandpiper, scops owl, screamer, sign, songbird, songster, spawn, spheniscus demersus, spring peeper, squadroom, suggest, supererogation, take in, tattoo, telephone bell, telephoner, thickhead, threaten, thryothorus ludovicianus, toll call, traveling salesman, travelling salesman, trouble, trouble oneself, uncritical, visitation, whistler, white-collar, whooper, whooper swan, whooping crane, withdraw, zenaidura macroura

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