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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Call \Call\ (k[add]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Called} (k[add]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Calling}] [OE. callen, AS. ceallian; akin to Icel. & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen to talk, prate, OHG. kall[=o]n to call; cf. Gr. ghry`ein to speak, sing, Skr. gar to praise. Cf. {Garrulous}.] 1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. [1913 Webster] Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious character; -- often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church. [1913 Webster] Paul . . . called to be an apostle --Rom. i. 1. [1913 Webster] The Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. --Acts xiii. 2. [1913 Webster] 3. To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with together; as, the President called Congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen. [1913 Webster] Now call we our high court of Parliament. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name. [1913 Webster] If you would but call me Rosalind. --Shak. [1913 Webster] And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. --Gen. i. 5. [1913 Webster] 5. To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate. [1913 Webster] What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. --Acts x. 15. [1913 Webster] 6. To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work. [1913 Webster] [The] army is called seven hundred thousand men. --Brougham. [1913 Webster] 7. To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] This speech calls him Spaniard. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster] 8. To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off; as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a military company. [1913 Webster] No parish clerk who calls the psalm so clear. --Gay. [1913 Webster] 9. To invoke; to appeal to. [1913 Webster] I call God for a witness. --2 Cor. i. 23 [Rev. Ver. ] [1913 Webster] 10. To rouse from sleep; to awaken. [1913 Webster] If thou canst awake by four o' the clock. I prithee call me. Sleep hath seized me wholly. --Shak. [1913 Webster] {To call a bond}, to give notice that the amount of the bond will be paid. {To call a party} (Law), to cry aloud his name in open court, and command him to come in and perform some duty requiring his presence at the time on pain of what may befall him. {To call back}, to revoke or retract; to recall; to summon back. {To call down}, to pray for, as blessing or curses. {To call forth}, to bring or summon to action; as, to call forth all the faculties of the mind. {To call in}, (a) To collect; as, to call in debts or money; ar to withdraw from cirulation; as, to call in uncurrent coin. (b) To summon to one's side; to invite to come together; as, to call in neighbors. {To call (any one) names}, to apply contemptuous names (to any one). {To call off}, to summon away; to divert; as, to call off the attention; to call off workmen from their employment. {To call out}. (a) To summon to fight; to challenge. (b) To summon into service; as, to call out the militia. {To call over}, to recite separate particulars in order, as a roll of names. {To call to account}, to demand explanation of. {To call to mind}, to recollect; to revive in memory. {To call to order}, to request to come to order; as: (a) A public meeting, when opening it for business. (b) A person, when he is transgressing the rules of debate. {To call to the bar}, to admit to practice in courts of law. {To call up}. (a) To bring into view or recollection; as to call up the image of deceased friend. (b) To bring into action or discussion; to demand the consideration of; as, to call up a bill before a legislative body. Syn: To name; denominate; invite; bid; summon; convoke; assemble; collect; exhort; warn; proclaim; invoke; appeal to; designate. Usage: {To Call}, {Convoke}, {Summon}. Call is the generic term; as, to call a public meeting. To convoke is to require the assembling of some organized body of men by an act of authority; as, the king convoked Parliament. To summon is to require attendance by an act more or less stringent anthority; as, to summon a witness. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Call \Call\, n. 1. The act of calling; -- usually with the voice, but often otherwise, as by signs, the sound of some instrument, or by writing; a summons; an entreaty; an invitation; as, a call for help; the bugle's call. "Call of the trumpet." --Shak. [1913 Webster] I rose as at thy call, but found thee not. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty. [1913 Webster] 3. (Eccl.) An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor. [1913 Webster] 4. A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case; a moral requirement or appeal. [1913 Webster] Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity. --Addison. [1913 Webster] Running into danger without any call of duty. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 5. A divine vocation or summons. [1913 Webster] St. Paul himself believed he did well, and that he had a call to it, when he persecuted the Christians. --Locke. [1913 Webster] 6. Vocation; employment. Note: [In this sense, calling is generally used.] [1913 Webster] 7. A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders. [1913 Webster] The baker's punctual call. --Cowper. [1913 Webster] 8. (Hunting) A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds. [1913 Webster] 9. (Naut.) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty. [1913 Webster] 10. (Fowling) The cry of a bird; also a noise or cry in imitation of a bird; or a pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry. [1913 Webster] 11. (Amer. Land Law) 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. [1913 Webster] 12. The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on. [Brokers' Cant] [1913 Webster] 13. See {Assessment}, 4. [1913 Webster] {At call}, or {On call}, liable to be demanded at any moment without previous notice; as money on deposit. {Call bird}, a bird taught to allure others into a snare. {Call boy} (a) A boy who calls the actors in a theater; a boy who transmits the orders of the captain of a vessel to the engineer, helmsman, etc. (b) A waiting boy who answers a cal, or cames at the ringing of a bell; a bell boy. {Call note}, the note naturally used by the male bird to call the female. It is artificially applied by birdcatchers as a decoy. --Latham. {Call of the house} (Legislative Bodies), a calling over the names of members, to discover who is absent, or for other purposes; a calling of names with a view to obtaining the ayes and noes from the persons named. {Call to the bar}, admission to practice in the courts. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Call \Call\, v. i. 1. To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; -- sometimes with to. [1913 Webster] You must call to the nurse. --Shak. [1913 Webster] The angel of God called to Hagar. --Gen. xxi. 17. [1913 Webster] 2. To make a demand, requirement, or request. [1913 Webster] They called for rooms, and he showed them one. --Bunyan. [1913 Webster] 3. To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders. [1913 Webster] He ordered her to call at the house once a week. --Temple. [1913 Webster] {To call for} (a) To demand; to require; as, a crime calls for punishment; a survey, grant, or deed calls for the metes and bounds, or the quantity of land, etc., which it describes. (b) To give an order for; to request. "Whenever the coach stopped, the sailor called for more ale." --Marryat. {To call on}, {To call upon}, (a) To make a short visit to; as, call on a friend. (b) To appeal to; to invite; to request earnestly; as, to call upon a person to make a speech. (c) To solicit payment, or make a demand, of a debt. (d) To invoke or play to; to worship; as, to call upon God. {To call out} To call or utter loudly; to brawl. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: call n 1: a telephone connection; "she reported several anonymous calls"; "he placed a phone call to London"; "he heard the phone ringing but didn't want to take the call" [syn: {call}, {phone call}, {telephone call}] 2: a special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course; "he was disappointed that he had not heard the Call" 3: a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition; "the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience" [syn: {cry}, {outcry}, {call}, {yell}, {shout}, {vociferation}] 4: a demand especially in the phrase "the call of duty" [syn: {call}, {claim}] 5: the characteristic sound produced by a bird; "a bird will not learn its song unless it hears it at an early age" [syn: {birdcall}, {call}, {birdsong}, {song}] 6: a brief social visit; "senior professors' wives no longer make afternoon calls on newcomers"; "the characters in Henry James' novels are forever paying calls on each other, usually in the parlor of some residence" 7: a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement [syn: {margin call}, {call}] 8: a demand for a show of hands in a card game; "after two raises there was a call" 9: a request; "many calls for Christmas stories"; "not many calls for buggywhips" 10: an instruction that interrupts the program being executed; "Pascal performs calls by simply giving the name of the routine to be executed" 11: a visit in an official or professional capacity; "the pastor's calls on his parishioners"; "the salesman's call on a customer" 12: (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee; "he was ejected for protesting the call" 13: the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date [syn: {call option}, {call}] [ant: {put}, {put option}] v 1: assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to; "They named their son David"; "The new school was named after the famous Civil Rights leader" [syn: {name}, {call}] 2: ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality; "He called me a bastard"; "She called her children lazy and ungrateful" 3: get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone; "I tried to call you all night"; "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning" [syn: {call}, {telephone}, {call up}, {phone}, {ring}] 4: utter a sudden loud cry; "she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle"; "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me" [syn: {shout}, {shout out}, {cry}, {call}, {yell}, {scream}, {holler}, {hollo}, {squall}] 5: order, request, or command to come; "She was called into the director's office"; "Call the police!" [syn: {call}, {send for}] 6: pay a brief visit; "The mayor likes to call on some of the prominent citizens" [syn: {visit}, {call in}, {call}] 7: call a meeting; invite or command to meet; "The Wannsee Conference was called to discuss the `Final Solution'"; "The new dean calls meetings every week" 8: read aloud to check for omissions or absentees; "Call roll" 9: send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc.; make a signal to in order to transmit a message; "Hawaii is calling!"; "A transmitter in Samoa was heard calling" 10: utter a characteristic note or cry; "bluejays called to one another" 11: stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather; "call a football game" 12: greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name; "He always addresses me with `Sir'"; "Call me Mister"; "She calls him by first name" [syn: {address}, {call}] 13: make a stop in a harbour; "The ship will call in Honolulu tomorrow" 14: demand payment of (a loan); "Call a loan" [syn: {call}, {call in}] 15: make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands; "He called his trump" [syn: {bid}, {call}] 16: give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance [syn: {call}, {call off}] 17: indicate a decision in regard to; "call balls and strikes behind the plate" 18: make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election" [syn: {predict}, {foretell}, {prognosticate}, {call}, {forebode}, {anticipate}, {promise}] 19: require the presentation of for redemption before maturation; "Call a bond" 20: challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense; "He deserves to be called on that" 21: declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee; "call a runner out" 22: lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal; "Call ducks" 23: order or request or give a command for; "The unions called a general strike for Sunday" 24: order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role; "He was already called 4 times for jury duty"; "They called him to active military duty" 25: utter in a loud voice or announce; "He called my name"; "The auctioneer called the bids" 26: challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of; "call the speaker on a question of fact" 27: consider or regard as being; "I would not call her beautiful" 28: rouse somebody from sleep with a call; "I was called at 5 A.M. this morning"