Call word meaning and definition

[noun] the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
[noun] (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee; "he was ejected for protesting the call"
[noun] brief visit in an official or professional capacity; "the pastor's visits to his parishioners"; "a visit to a dentist"; "the salesman's call on a customer"
[noun] a brief social visit; "senior professors' wives no longer make afternoon calls on newcomers"
[noun] a special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course; "he was disappointed that he had not heard the Call"
[noun] 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"
[noun] an instruction that interrupts the program being executed; "Pascal performs calls by simply giving the name of the routine to be executed"
[noun] the characteristic sound produced by a bird; "a bird will not learn its song unless it hears it at an early age"
[noun] a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition; "the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience"
[noun] a request; "many calls for Christmas stories"; "not many calls for buggywhips"
[noun] a demand especially in the phrase"the call of duty"
[noun] a demand for a show of hands in a card game; "after two raises there was a call"
[noun] a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement
[verb] rouse somebody from sleep with a call; "I was called at 5 A.M. this morning"
[verb] consider or regard as being; "I would not call her beautiful"
[verb] challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of; "call the speaker on a question of fact"
[verb] utter in a loud voice or announce; "He called my name"; "The auctioneer called the bids"
[verb] 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"
[verb] order or request or give a command for; "The unions called a general strike for Sunday"
[verb] lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal; "Call ducks"

\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. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain --Shak. 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. Paul . . . called to be an apostle --Rom. i. 1. The Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. --Acts xiii. 2. 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. Now call we our high court of Parliament. --Shak. 4. To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name. If you would but call me Rosalind. --Shak. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. --Gen. i. 5. 5. To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate. What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. --Acts x. 15. 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. [The] army is called seven hundred thousand men. --Brougham. 7. To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of. [Obs.] This speech calls him Spaniard. --Beau. & Fl. 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. No parish clerk who calls the psalm so clear. --Gay. 9. To invoke; to appeal to. I call God for a witness. --2 Cor. i. 23 [Rev. Ver. ] 10. To rouse from sleep; to awaken. If thou canst awake by four o' the clock. I prithee call me. Sleep hath seized me wholly. --Shak. {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.
\Call\, v. i. 1. To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; -- sometimes with to. You must call to the nurse. --Shak. The angel of God called to Hagar. --Gen. xxi. 17. 2. To make a demand, requirement, or request. They called for rooms, and he showed them one. --Bunyan. 3. To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders. He ordered her to call at the house once a week. --Temple. {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.

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