Definitions for call
  • Call (v. t.) - To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.
  • Call (v. t.) - 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.
  • Call (v. t.) - 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.
  • Call (v. t.) - To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name.
  • Call (v. t.) - To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate.
  • Call (v. t.) - 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.
  • Call (v. t.) - To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of.
  • Call (v. t.) - 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.
  • Call (v. t.) - To invoke; to appeal to.
  • Call (v. t.) - To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
  • Call (v. i.) - To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; -- sometimes with to.
  • Call (v. i.) - To make a demand, requirement, or request.
  • Call (v. i.) - To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders.
  • Call (n.) - 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 (n.) - A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty.
  • Call (n.) - An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
  • Call (n.) - A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case; a moral requirement or appeal.
  • Call (n.) - A divine vocation or summons.
  • Call (n.) - Vocation; employment.
  • Call (n.) - A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders.
  • Call (n.) - A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds.
  • Call (n.) - A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty.
  • Call (n.) - 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.
  • Call (n.) - 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.
  • Call (n.) - The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on.
  • Call (n.) - See Assessment, 4.
  • Calle (n.) - A kind of head covering; a caul.
  • Called (imp. & p. p.) - of Call
  • Calles - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Calling (n.) - The act of one who calls; a crying aloud, esp. in order to summon, or to attact the attention of, some one.
  • Calling (n.) - A summoning or convocation, as of Parliament.
  • Calling (n.) - A divine summons or invitation; also, the state of being divinely called.
  • Calling (n.) - A naming, or inviting; a reading over or reciting in order, or a call of names with a view to obtaining an answer, as in legislative bodies.
  • Calling (n.) - One's usual occupation, or employment; vocation; business; trade.
  • Calling (n.) - The persons, collectively, engaged in any particular professions or employment.
  • Calling (n.) - Title; appellation; name.
  • Calling (p. pr. & vb. n.) - of Call
  • Callings - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Calls - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
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2 Letter Words
al la
3 Letter Words
all lac
4 Letter Words
call