call
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
banking
baseball
billiards
business
card-games
computing
cricket
engineering
finance
games
heading
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
poker
sciences
sports
Etymology: 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”).
Inflected forms:
form: calls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: calling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: called
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: called
pos: verb
tags: past
form: call'd
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: call'd
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: call
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: call
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: called
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: callest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: called
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: calledst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: calls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: calleth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: called
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: call
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: called
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: call
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: called
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: call
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: calling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: called
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: call'd
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To reach out with one's voice.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: That person is hurt; call for help!
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.
gloss: To reach out with one's voice.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "Supper's ready," called Dad from the kitchen.
If you heare a child crie in the night you must call to the nurſe and bid her ſtil it.
For far—oh, very far behind, / So far she cannot call to him, / Comes Tegumai alone to find / The daughter that was all to him!
gloss: To reach out with one's voice.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to call the roll of a military company
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.
gloss: To reach out with one's voice.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Why don’t you call me in the morning?
Why don’t you call tomorrow?
There they waited until after eleven, then Paulvitch took down the receiver of their telephone. He called a number.
gloss: To reach out with one's voice.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To reach out with one's voice.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They called I Got Rhythm, and turned to me again for a solo, and I said what?
Jeff Castleman and Rufus Jones were in position when they went out, and he immediately called Satin Doll.
I thought he forgot all about it, but late in the set he called St. Louis Blues.
gloss: To reach out with one's voice.
pos: verb
tags: Yorkshire
transitive
examples: CALL 1 scold
gloss: To visit.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We could always call on a friend.
The engineer called round whilst you were away.
[...] He ordered Her to call at His Houſe once a Week, which She did for ſome Time; after which He heard no more of Her.
The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.
gloss: To visit.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: This train calls at Reading, Slough and London Paddington.
Our cruise ship called at Bristol Harbour.
gloss: To visit.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: They say your love will surely fade, girl, / When things go wrong and trouble calls.
gloss: To name, identify, or describe.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: Why don’t we dispense with the formalities? Please call me Al.
Don't call me a liar.
I don't know how you and the 'head,' as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a 'livery' again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery.
The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three–what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
gloss: To name, identify, or describe.
pos: verb
examples: I’m called John.
A very tall building is called a skyscraper.
The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.
gloss: To name, identify, or describe.
pos: verb
examples: They call the distance ten miles.
That’s enough work. Let's call it a day and go home.
The whole army is called 700,000 men
gloss: To name, identify, or describe.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I call bullshit.
She called foul on their scheme.
Having been around the block a few times, I immediately called "shenanigans” on it, but even so, I was taken aback.
gloss: To name, identify, or describe.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: This ſpeech calls him Spaniard, being nothing but / A large inventory of his own commendations.
gloss: To declare, or declare in favor of, a predicted or actual result.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The captains call the coin toss.
gloss: To declare, or declare in favor of, a predicted or actual result.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He called twelve of the last three recessions.
gloss: To declare, or declare in favor of, a predicted or actual result.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: “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.
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.
If you are staring your dream in the face and seeing that it is time to quit, I urge you to call the time of death right now. You can sit here with this book in your hand and do it, or climb to a mountaintop and shout it, or write it on a message in a bottle and throw it out to sea. However you do it, do it. I can guarantee that there is life on the other side of the impossible. And naming the time of death is an important process in moving on, letting go, and getting to the other side.
gloss: To declare, or declare in favor of, a predicted or actual result.
pos: verb
examples: After the third massive failure, John called the whole initiative.
gloss: To declare, or declare in favor of, a predicted or actual result.
pos: verb
examples: The goal was called offside.
gloss: Direct or indirect use of the voice.
pos: verb
gloss: Direct or indirect use of the voice.
pos: verb
gloss: Direct or indirect use of the voice.
pos: verb
examples: Every shot must be called.
gloss: Direct or indirect use of the voice.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I bet $800 and Jane raised to $1600. My options: call (match her $1600 bet), reraise, or fold.
gloss: Direct or indirect use of the voice.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
proscribed
examples: I’ll call your 300, and raise to 600!
gloss: Direct or indirect use of the voice.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: My partner called two spades.
gloss: To require, demand.
pos: verb
tags: sometimes
transitive
examples: He felt called to help the old man.
gloss: To cause to be verbally subjected to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
The basis for his conclusion was called into doubt
gloss: To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
examples: I call the comfy chair!
Mr. Burns: Any of these islands would make a fine new country. / Homer: I call president! / Mr. Burns: Vice president! / Smithers: [groans]
gloss: To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To demand repayment of a loan.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To jump to (another part of a program); to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A recursive function is one that calls itself.
Derived words: becall
butter my butt and call it a biscuit
butter my butt and call me a biscuit
callability
callable
call a cab
call after
call again
call a go
call a halt
call ahead
call a lid
call an ambulance
call an audible
call and collect
call around
call a shovel a shovel
call a spade a shovel
call a spade a spade
call a spade a spade and a shovel a shovel
call away
call back
call balls and strikes
call bullshit
call by
call-by-future
call-by-name
call-by-need
call-by-reference
call down
called to straw
callee
call 'em as one sees 'em
caller
call for
call forth
call in
calling
calling bell
calling-card
calling card
calling crab
calling name
calling station
call in sick
call in the wilderness
call into doubt
call into question
call it
call it a day
call it an early night
call it a night
call it as one sees it
call it even
call it half a day
call it quits
call it square
call it stumps
call names
call off
call on
call on the carpet
call onto the carpet
call out
call out of one's name
call out sick
call over
call roll
call round
call someone every name in the book
call someone everything but a child of God
call someone's bluff
call someone's number
call the ball
call the fire brigade
call the fire department
call them as one sees them
call the police
call the question
call the shots
call the tune
call time
call to
call to account
call together
call to mind
call to order
call to task
call to the Bar
call up
call upon
cat calling the kettle black
cold calling
cold-calling
come calling
cop-call
desperate times call for desperate measures
don't call us, we'll call you
drop call
duty calls
effectual calling
I'll call the police
is that what the kids are calling it these days
I've never heard it called that before
miscall
name-call
name-calling
now that's what I call
photo call
point and call
pot calling the kettle black
re-call
recall
slap my ass and call me Judy
slap my ass and call me Sally
smooth call
that's what I call
too close to call
voice calling in the wilderness
whatchacallit
what-d'ye-call-'em
what-d'ye-call-it
who's calling
will call
withcall
you call this
call of duty
call to the bar
check-call
overcall
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: այցելել
roman: aycʻelel
lang: Bulgarian
word: посеща́вам
roman: poseštávam
lang: Catalan
word: visitar
lang: Czech
word: navštívit
lang: Danish
word: besøge
lang: Dutch
word: bezoeken
lang: Finnish
word: vierailla
lang: Finnish
word: pysähtyä
lang: French
word: visiter
lang: Galician
word: visitar
lang: German
word: besuchen
lang: German
word: vorbeischauen
lang: Hungarian
word: meglátogat
lang: Icelandic
word: heimsækja
lang: Icelandic
word: heilsa upp á
lang: Italian
word: visitare
lang: Japanese
word: 訪ねる
roman: tazuneru
lang: Japanese
word: 訪問する
roman: hōmon-suru
lang: Korean
word: 찾아가다
roman: chajagada
lang: Korean
word: 방문(訪問)하다
roman: bangmunhada
lang: Macedonian
word: посе́тува
roman: posétuva
lang: Macedonian
word: на́враќа
roman: návraḱa
lang: Māori
word: peka
lang: Portuguese
word: visitar
lang: Russian
word: навеща́ть
roman: naveščátʹ
lang: Russian
word: навести́ть
roman: navestítʹ
lang: Russian
word: посеща́ть
roman: poseščátʹ
lang: Russian
word: посети́ть
roman: posetítʹ
lang: Swedish
word: besöka
lang: Swedish
word: hälsa på