Word Finder - call

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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.

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(heading) To use one's voice.

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(heading) To visit.

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(heading) To name, identify or describe.

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(heading) Direct or indirect use of the voice.

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(sometimes with for) To require, demand.

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He felt called to help the old man.

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To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.

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To demand repayment of a loan.

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To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.

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A recursive function is one that calls itself.

He was going to call the doctor.

Do you want me to call Len?

If you need anything, be sure to call me.

Call me if there's any change.

I'll call an ambulance.

I suppose you could call it that.

My whole name is Zebediah; but folks just call me 'Zeb.'

Then I will drag it out of the bushes and call mamma to come and see it.

As soon as she retrieved her purse and clothes, she could call Connie to come get her.

I'll call him and see if I can get him to see the doctor.

What do you call it?

Call the next one!

Beside, clothes introduced sewing, a kind of work which you may call endless; a woman's dress, at least, is never done.

Is it all right if I call Lisa now and then to see how she's doing?

Don't call me that, shithead.

Her hand hung over the phone a minute as she fought with the urge to call Howard.

And like a practical Petersburg lady who knows how to make the most of time, Anna Mikhaylovna sent someone to call her son, and went into the anteroom with him.

They imagined it to be a call to arms.

Lisa had time between when Howard left and Giddon arrived to call the police, but she didn't.

You made the call.

Every phone call you make.

He had invited Miss Sullivan and me to call on him one Sunday afternoon.

To the conservatives, call it a tax rebate; to the liberals, an entitlement.

We call these rights "human rights" because they apply to every single person on the planet by virtue of simply being alive.

Mr. Wilson came to call on us one Thursday.

Katie would call it controlling.

Apparently his mood had been inspired by the telephone call she made to Connie a few nights ago.

Did you call me to get my opinion or to tell me you're going to take the job?

Don't call me Mr. Cade.

Did you call your friend yet?

Who do we call?

I left word I'd call from the airport in the morning and set my phone alarm in time for my early departure.

Who can I call?

Your ability to heal makes you what we'd call a Natural, a human with extraordinary capabilities.

Intercepts picked up a call Talon made to one of his guys who we know plans his recruitment fairs.

Well, maybe I should call a game warden.

Linda gets the idea to call Facebook and see if she can advertise to people who change their status to "In a relationship."

Keep calm, I will call again tomorrow, said Metivier; and putting his fingers to his lips he hastened away.

I'll call, I'll call to kiss your hand.

The phone rang several times and then dropped the call.

Why were you trying to call him?

The local folks call this spot the writing on the rock.

Connie gave me this number to call you.

Is he listening to your phone call?

Why didn't Howard call for help?

If she could get to her telephone, she could call someone for help.

She started to call out to him, but a pretty young Indian girl emerged from those same bushes.

In fact, she was so keyed up when she reached her apartment that she decided to call her best friend with the news.

I wouldn't call you dull, just inactive.

Tonight she would have to call her - after she and Cade returned from their ride.