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A telephone conversation.
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I received several calls today.
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A short visit, usually for social purposes.
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I paid a call to a dear friend of mine.
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A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
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The ship made a call at Southampton.
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A cry or shout.
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He heard a call from the other side of the room.
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A decision or judgement.
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That was a good call.
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The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
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That sound is the distinctive call of the cuckoo bird.
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A beckoning or summoning.
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I had to yield to the call of the wild.
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The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
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I give the call to the Manager of Opposition Business.
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An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
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The act of calling to the other batsman.
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The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
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A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).
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The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
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A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
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There was a 20 dollar bet on the table, and my call was 9.
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The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
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A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
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A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
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A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
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An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
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Vocation; employment; calling.
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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.
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(prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.