Word Finder - calling

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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.

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A strong urge to become religious.

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A job or occupation.

I missed my calling as a wise and successful detective!

I was calling my friend.

What are you doing wasting a dime calling from the coast?

Giddon was obviously watching her, so calling on her telephone might be tipping her hand.

She didn't chide me for calling early.

Daniel Brennan came calling and the county was reduced of fish by his visit.

Thank you so much for calling!

I'm sorry he keeps calling you.

The national weather forecast on television was calling for light snow in Arkansas.

Unfortunately, you were far more careless calling your tip line and a telephone code was noted and remembered by the operator.

Saddened, she considered calling him to check in when a sudden pounding at the door made her jump.

She said her mother or someone took her calling card but she didn't explain.

David Dean harbored serious doubts about leaving Lydia Larkin's apartment without either contacting the police or calling an ambulance—or maybe a lawyer.

Do you think Fitzgerald was involved with that skeleton in the mine—what you've been calling 'Martha's bones'?

Calling Mrs. Langstrom would probably have been their best lead, but that was out of the question.

You're calling me a piece of shit for walking away, aren't you?

Just calling to uh, say hi, I guess.

Oh, and stop calling me Doc.

I spent my last coins calling you!

He would have seen on the ID that she was the one calling.

I heard her calling the police before you got here.

With his lighted lantern in his hand, he went up and down the rough hills calling for his lambs.

She hurriedly ascended the narrow dimly lit stone staircase, calling to Pierre, who was lagging behind, to follow.

In the next room sat the count and countess respectfully conversing with the prior, who was calling on them as old acquaintances and benefactors of the monastery.

Go, go, she... is calling... and weeping like a child and quickly shuffling on his feeble legs to a chair, he almost fell into it, covering his face with his hands.

Natasha, who had long expected to be fetched to nurse her baby, now heard the nurse calling her and went to the nursery.

Things were getting complicated here and the mountains were calling.

Why don't you try calling your family again?

The wild hills were calling, as they had in her youth.

Lisa dropped her pad and pencil on the couch and crossed the room, wondering who might be calling her on his telephone and why Yancey was screening her calls.

His footsteps sounded down the hallway and he continued calling her name frantically.

Who would be calling her on his phone again?

Maybe you could even talk him into going to the doctor - or at least calling the doctor.

Even so, I don't know anyone who admits to understanding him - much less calling him a friend.

Incidentally, you showed some smarts not calling down to Georgia and getting lost in the cracker barrel.

No one will believe a psychic is calling the shots.

Oh, and tell him I swear not to look at what other girl's he's been calling... cross my heart, like fun!

A few hours ago, my wife was calling Molly's mother Julie a bitch, now, with a quickly appointed kinship, she was her assigned sister!

I considered calling Frank Vasapolli but I would be revealing my Keene location.

We stopped for an ice cream to compose our guest though I disliked taking the time from calling Daniel Brennan to run the license plate number we'd recorded.

I considered calling Howie and learn what he'd told the detective before I blurted out something that totally contradicted what my former partner in crime had related.

Calling names never accomplished a thing, sir.

Each time the phone rang, Cynthia flinched, fearing some state minion was calling to drag Martha back to his lair in the dungeons of officialdom.

It was Jake Weller's voice calling to her.

Jonathan and Señor Medena hit it off from the minute they met, and by the time he left, Jonathan was calling him grandpa.

Terrified she'd find him in the tub, nothing more than a pile of bones, she pushed herself away from the wall and focused hard on calling a portal.

Are you still calling yourself Deidre?

There were three then five voices with a sixth calling the police and the seventh hugging the sobbing kid.

Though she hated to admit it, she'd hoped Rhyn was calling.

He strode into the hall, calling, "Kiki!"