Word: call Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gels-der. Proto-Indo-European *golsos Proto-Germanic *kalzazder. Proto-Germanic *kalzōną Proto-West Germanic *kalʀōn Old English cealliander. Old English *callian Middle English callen English call From Middle English callen, from Old English ċeallian (“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 Low German kallen (“to speak, talk”) * German kallen (“to call”) * 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”). Pronunciation: /kɔːl/, [kʰoɫ], /koːl/, /kɔl/, /kaːl/ 1. To reach out with one's voice. Labels: intransitive Example: That person is hurt; call for help! Example: So they called for Rooms; and he ſhewed them one for Christiana and her Children and Mercy, and another for Mr. Great-heart and the old Gentleman. 2. To reach out with one's voice. Labels: intransitive Example: "Supper's ready," called Dad from the kitchen. Example: If you heare a child crie in the night you must call to the nurſe and bid her ſtil it. 3. To reach out with one's voice. Labels: transitive Example: to call the roll of a military company Example: Not ballad-ſinger plac'd above the croud, / Sings with a note ſo ſhrilling ſweet and loud, / Nor pariſh clerk who calls the pſalm ſo clear, / Like Bowzybeus ſooths th' attentive ear. 4. To reach out with one's voice. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Why don’t you call me in the morning? Example: Why don’t you call tomorrow? 5. To reach out with one's voice. Labels: transitive Example: Take not away the Taper, leaue it burning: / And if thou canſt awake by foure o’th’clock, / I prythee call me: Sleepe hath ceiz’d me wholly. 6. To reach out with one's voice. Labels: transitive Example: They called I Got Rhythm, and turned to me again for a solo, and I said what? Example: Jeff Castleman and Rufus Jones were in position when they went out, and he immediately called Satin Doll. 7. To reach out with one's voice. Labels: Yorkshire, transitive Example: CALL 1 scold 8. To visit. Labels: intransitive Example: We could always call on a friend. Example: The engineer called round whilst you were away. 9. To visit. Labels: intransitive Example: This train calls at Reading, Slough and London Paddington. Example: Our cruise ship called at Bristol Harbour. 10. To visit. Labels: intransitive Example: They say your love will surely fade, girl, / When things go wrong and trouble calls. 11. To name, identify, or describe. Labels: ditransitive Example: Why don’t we dispense with the formalities? Please call me Al. Example: Don't call me a liar. 12. To name, identify, or describe. Example: I’m called John. Example: A very tall building is called a skyscraper. 13. To name, identify, or describe. Example: They call the distance ten miles. Example: That’s enough work. Let's call it a day and go home. 14. To name, identify, or describe. Labels: transitive Example: I call bullshit. Example: She called foul on their scheme. 15. To name, identify, or describe. Labels: obsolete Example: This ſpeech calls him Spaniard, being nothing but / A large inventory of his own commendations. 16. To declare, or declare in favor of, a predicted or actual result. Labels: transitive Example: The captains call the coin toss. 17. To declare, or declare in favor of, a predicted or actual result. Labels: transitive Example: He called twelve of the last three recessions. 18. To declare, or declare in favor of, a predicted or actual result. Labels: transitive Example: “Let’s call it. Time of death, 08:45.” The respiratory therapist stopped bagging. The doctor stopped CPR. There was no heartbeat on the monitor. Michael was dead. Example: EXAMPLES: Time of death was called at 16:34(Incorrect). Time of death was called at 1634 p.m.(Incorrect). Time of death was called at 1634 hours(Correct). NOTE: Military (or 24-hour) time is not used with a.m, p.m, or o’clock. It is frequently used to state birth and death times, as well as time of day in autopsy protocols. It is customary to write the word hours after the figures. 19. To declare, or declare in favor of, a predicted or actual result. Example: After the third massive failure, John called the whole initiative. 20. To declare, or declare in favor of, a predicted or actual result. Example: The goal was called offside. 21. Direct or indirect use of the voice. 22. Direct or indirect use of the voice. 23. Direct or indirect use of the voice. Example: Every shot must be called. 24. Direct or indirect use of the voice. Labels: intransitive Example: I bet $800 and Jane raised to $1600. My options: call (match her $1600 bet), reraise, or fold. 25. Direct or indirect use of the voice. Labels: intransitive, proscribed Example: I’ll call your 300, and raise to 600! 26. Direct or indirect use of the voice. Labels: transitive Example: My partner called two spades. 27. To require, demand. Labels: sometimes, transitive Example: He felt called to help the old man. 28. To cause to be verbally subjected to. Labels: transitive Example: Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. Example: The basis for his conclusion was called into doubt 29. To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs. Labels: colloquial, transitive Example: I call the comfy chair! Example: Mr. Burns: Any of these islands would make a fine new country. / Homer: I call president! / Mr. Burns: Vice president! / Smithers: [groans] 30. To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium. Labels: transitive 31. To demand repayment of a loan. Labels: transitive 32. To jump to (another part of a program); to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion. Labels: transitive Example: A recursive function is one that calls itself.