call : Idioms & Phrases

• liable to be demanded at any moment without previous notice; as money on deposit.

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• noun a birdcall that resembles the tone of a bell
  

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• ), an instrument form measuring minute distances or angles by means of two very minute threads (usually spider lines), one of which, at least, is movable; more commonly called a filar micrometer.

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• noun a signal broadcast by the sound of a bugle
  

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• verb enter a harbor
  out in.
  
  • the ship called in Athens

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• verb point out carefully and clearly
  signalise; signalize; point out.
  

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• verb cause to be returned
  recall; withdraw; call back.
  
  • recall the defective auto tires
  • The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt
• verb recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
  retrieve; remember; recall; recollect; call back; think.
  
  • I can't remember saying any such thing
  • I can't think what her last name was
  • can you remember her phone number?
  • Do you remember that he once loved you?
  • call up memories
• verb return or repeat a telephone call
  
  • I am busy right now--can you call back in an hour?
  • She left a message but the contractor never called back
• verb summon to return
  recall.
  
  • The ambassador was recalled to his country
  • The company called back many of the workers it had laid off during the recession

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• a bird taught to allure others into a snare.

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• noun booth for using a telephone
  phone booth; telephone kiosk; telephone booth; telephone box.
  
• noun a numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for
  letter box; Post-Office box; POB; PO Box.
  

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• (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.

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• noun a center equipped to handle a large volume of telephone calls (especially for taking orders or serving customers)
  call center.
  

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• noun a center equipped to handle a large volume of telephone calls (especially for taking orders or serving customers)
  call center.
  

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• verb summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
  arouse; raise; invoke; conjure up; bring up; call down; evoke; put forward; stir; conjure.
  
  • raise the specter of unemployment
  • he conjured wild birds in the air
  • call down the spirits from the mountain
• verb censure severely or angrily
  rag; dress down; remonstrate; chew out; take to task; call down; jaw; lambast; trounce; scold; chide; berate; chew up; have words; rebuke; reprimand; reproof; lecture; bawl out; lambaste.
  
  • The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car
  • The deputy ragged the Prime Minister
  • The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup

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• noun fire delivered on a specific target in response to a request from the supported unit
  

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• verb express the need or desire for; ask for
  bespeak; quest; request.
  
  • She requested an extra bed in her room
  • She called for room service
• verb require as useful, just, or proper
  require; necessitate; involve; need; take; demand; ask; postulate.
  
  • It takes nerve to do what she did
  • success usually requires hard work
  • This job asks a lot of patience and skill
  • This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice
  • This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert
  • This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent
• verb request the participation or presence of
  invite.
  
  • The organizers invite submissions of papers for the conference
• verb gather or collect
  collect; pick up; gather up.
  
  • You can get the results on Monday
  • She picked up the children at the day care center
  • They pick up our trash twice a week

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• verb evoke or provoke to appear or occur
  provoke; evoke; kick up.
  
  • Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple
• verb summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
  arouse; raise; invoke; conjure up; bring up; call down; evoke; put forward; stir; conjure.
  
  • raise the specter of unemployment
  • he conjured wild birds in the air
  • call down the spirits from the mountain

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• noun lets you transfer your incoming calls to any telephone that you can dial direct
  

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• noun a female prostitute who can be hired by telephone
  

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• verb summon to enter
  
  • The nurse called in the next patient
• verb summon to a particular activity or employment
  
  • Experts were called in
• verb pay a brief visit
  call; visit.
  
  • The mayor likes to call on some of the prominent citizens
• verb take a player out of a game in order to exchange for another player
  
• verb make a phone call
  
  • call in to a radio station
  • call in sick
• verb demand payment of (a loan)
  call.
  
  • Call a loan
• verb cause to be returned
  recall; withdraw; call back.
  
  • recall the defective auto tires
  • The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt

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• verb challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of
  question; oppugn.
  
  • We must question your judgment in this matter

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• verb stop doing what one is doing
  call it a day.
  
  • At midnight, the student decided to call it quits and closed his books

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• verb stop doing what one is doing
  call it a day.
  
  • At midnight, the student decided to call it quits and closed his books

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• noun a loan that is repayable on demand
  demand loan.
  

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• noun a mark consisting of characters written on a book; used to indicate shelf location
  call mark; pressmark.
  

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• the note naturally used by the male bird to call the female. It is artifically applied by birdcatchers as a decoy. Latham.

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• noun a mark consisting of characters written on a book; used to indicate shelf location
  call mark; pressmark.
  

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• (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.

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• verb postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
  cancel; scratch; scrub.
  
  • Call off the engagement
  • cancel the dinner party
  • we had to scrub our vacation plans
  • scratch that meeting--the chair is ill
• verb give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance
  call.
  

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• verb have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to
  turn.
  
  • She called on her Representative to help her
  • She turned to her relatives for help

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• verb censure severely or angrily
  rag; dress down; remonstrate; chew out; take to task; call down; jaw; lambast; trounce; scold; chide; berate; chew up; have words; rebuke; reprimand; reproof; lecture; bawl out; lambaste.
  
  • The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car
  • The deputy ragged the Prime Minister
  • The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup

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• verb ask to prove what someone is claiming
  
  • John called Mary's bluff when she claimed she could prove the theorem in under an hour

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• noun an option to buy
  
• noun the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
  call.
  

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• verb utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy
  exclaim; cry; cry out; shout; outcry.
  
  • `I won!' he exclaimed
  • `Help!' she cried
  • `I'm here,' the mother shouted when she saw her child looking lost
• verb call out loudly, as of names or numbers
  
• verb challenge to a duel
  
  • Aaron Burr called out Alexander Hamilton

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• verb exercise authority or be in charge
  call the shots; wear the trousers.
  
  • Who is calling the shots in this house?

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• verb exercise authority or be in charge
  call the shots; wear the trousers.
  
  • Who is calling the shots in this house?

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• verb open formally
  
  • the chairman called the meeting to order by pounding his gavel

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• admission to practice in the courts.

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• noun an order to report for military duty
  
• verb bring forward for consideration
  bring forward.
  
  • The case was called up in court
• verb get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
  phone; ring; call; telephone.
  
  • I tried to call you all night
  • Take two aspirin and call me in the morning
• verb recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
  retrieve; remember; recall; recollect; call back; think.
  
  • I can't remember saying any such thing
  • I can't think what her last name was
  • can you remember her phone number?
  • Do you remember that he once loved you?
  • call up memories
• verb call to arms; of military personnel
  rally; mobilize; mobilise.
  

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• noun a way of letting you know that someone else is calling when you are using your telephone
  

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• noun a return call
  
• noun the recall of an employee after a layoff
  

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• noun a bulletin board backstage in a theater
  

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• noun a telephone call to a radio station or a television station in which the caller participates in the on-going program
  

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• noun a challenge to a fight or duel
  

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• noun a card that is used instead of cash to make telephone calls
  phone card.
  
• noun a printed or written greeting that is left to indicate that you have visited
  card; visiting card.
  
• noun a distinguishing characteristic or behavior
  
  • bombs are a terrorist's calling cards

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• noun a challenge to defend what someone has said
  demand for explanation.
  

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• noun the act of convoking
  convocation.
  

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• noun something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin
  squeak; close shave; narrow escape; squeaker.
  

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• noun a telephone call that the receiving party is asked to pay for
  

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• noun a telephone call in which more than two people participate
  

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• noun a hostile telephone call (from a crank)
  

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• noun an appearance by actors or performers at the end of the concert or play in order to acknowledge the applause of the audience
  bow.
  

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• noun an internationally recognized signal sent out by a ship or plane indicating that help is needed
  distress signal.
  

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• (Theol.), a doctrine concerning the work of the Holy Spirit in producing conviction of sin and acceptance of salvation by Christ, one of the five points of Calvinism. See Calvinism.

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• (Mil.), a summons, by bugle or drum, to perform fatigue duties.

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• noun a call that passes control to a subroutine; after the subroutine is executed control returns to the next instruction in main program
  

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• a place, usually a public house, where journeymen connected with a particular trade assemble when out of work, ready for the call of employers. Eng. Simonds.

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• those logarithms (devised by John Speidell, 1619) of which the base is 2.7182818; so called from Napier, the inventor of logarithms.

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• noun a telephone call made within a local calling area
  

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• noun a telephone call made outside the local calling area
  long distance; long-distance call.
  
  • I talked to her by long distance

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• noun a call of names of those receiving mail
  

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• noun a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement
  call.
  

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• noun a call of the names of personnel at a military assembly
  

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• noun verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument
  names.
  
  • sticks and stones may break my bones but names can never hurt me

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• noun a telephone connection
  call; phone call.
  
  • 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

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• noun any port where a ship stops except its home port
  

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• a call or pipe for alluring quails into a net or within range.

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• (Civil Law), a burden imposed upon one estate in favor of another estate of another proprietor. Erskine. Bouvier.

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• noun calling out an official list of names
  

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• the act, or the time, of calling over a list names, as among soldiers.

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• noun an Algerian extremist Islamic offshoot of the Armed Islamic Group; now the largest and most active armed terrorist group in Algeria that seeks to overthrow the government; a major source of support and recruitment for al-Qaeda operations in Europe and northern Africa
  Salafist Group; GSPC.
  

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• noun a trip made by a repairman to visit the location of something in need of service
  

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• noun the daily military formation at which individuals report to the medical officer as sick
  sick parade.
  

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• noun the enticing appeal of something alluring but potentially dangerous
  siren song.
  
  • he succumbed to the siren call of the wilderness

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• adjective satellite doubtful or suspect
  alleged; supposed.
  
  • these so-called experts are no help

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So"-called` adjective

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1. So named; called by such a name (but perhaps called thus with doubtful propriety).

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• noun an instruction that interrupts the program being executed and passes control to the supervisor
  supervisor call instruction.
  

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• noun an instruction that interrupts the program being executed and passes control to the supervisor
  supervisor call instruction.
  

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• noun a telephone connection
  call; phone call.
  
  • 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

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• noun a way of adding a third party to your conversation without the assistance of a telephone operator
  

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• to apply contemptuous names (to any one).

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• to give notice that the amount of the bond will be paid.

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• (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.

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• to revoke or retract; to recall; to summon back.

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• to pray for, as blessing or curses.

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• (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.

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• to bring or summon to action; as, to call forth all the faculties of the mind.

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• (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.

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• to apply opprobrious epithets to; to call by reproachful appellations.

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• to summon away; to divert; as, to call off the attention; to call off workmen from their employment.

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• (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.

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• . (a) To summon to fight; to challenge. (b) To summon into service; as, to call out the militia.
• To call or utter loudly; to brawl.

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• to recite separate particulars in order, as a roll of names.

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• to call off or recite a list or roll of names of persons belonging to an organization, in order to ascertain who are present or to obtain responses from those present.

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• to demand explanation of.

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• to recollect; to revive in memory.

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• 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.

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• to admit to practice in courts of law.

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• . (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.

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• to name like and reference to.

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• noun a long-distance telephone call at charges above a local rate
  

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• noun a telephone call made outside the local calling area
  long distance; long-distance call.
  
  • I talked to her by long distance

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• noun a birdcall having two notes
  
  • the two-note call of the cuckoo

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• noun a warning to take action concerning something that was overlooked or neglected
  
  • the bombing was a wake-up call to strengthen domestic security
• noun a telephone call that you request be made a specific time in order to wake you up at that time (especially in hotels)
  
  • she left a wake-up call for 7 a.m.

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• (Mil.), a sound of trumpet or bugle summoning cavalry soldiers to assemble for the purpose of watering their horses.

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