1. 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"; "He called up his friend to share the good news";
   - telephone, call up, phone, ring
    
2. Order, request, or command to come
   "She was called into the director's office"; "Call the police!";
   - send for
    
3. Utter a sudden loud cry
   "The child called out in fear";
   - shout, shout out, cry, yell, scream, holler [informal], hollo [non-standard], squall
    
4. Assign a specified (usually proper) name to
   "They called their son David";
   - name, know as, be known as, christen
    
5. 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"
    
6. Pay a brief visit
   "The mayor likes to call on some of the prominent citizens";
   - visit, call in
    
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. Order, request or give a command for
   "The unions called a general strike for Sunday"
    
9. 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"
    
10. Utter in a loud voice or announce
    "He called my name"; "The auctioneer called the bids"
     
11. Utter a characteristic note or cry
    "bluejays called to one another"
     
12. (telecommunication) 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"
     
13. Read aloud to check for omissions or absentees
    "Call roll"
     
14. Greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name
    "Call me Mister"; "She calls him by first name";
    - address
     
15. Declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee
    "call a runner out"
     
16. (sport) indicate a decision in regard to
    "call balls and strikes behind the plate"
     
17. Make a prediction about; tell in advance
    "Call the outcome of an election";
    - predict, foretell, prognosticate, forebode, anticipate, promise
     
18. Challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offence
    "He deserves to be called on that"
     
19. Challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of
    "call the speaker on a question of fact"
     
20. Consider or regard as being
    "I would not call her beautiful"
     
21. (card game) make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands
    "He called his trump";
    - bid
     
22. Demand payment of (a loan)
    "Call a loan"; "call in a loan";
    - call in
     
23. Present for redemption before maturation
    "Call a bond"
     
24. Give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance
    "The experienced caller called off the steps for the square dance";
    - call off
     
25. Make a stop in a harbour
    "The ship will call in Honolulu tomorrow"
     
26. Stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather
    "call a football game"
     
27. Lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal
    "Call ducks"
     
28. Rouse somebody from sleep with a call
    "I was called at 5 A.M. this morning"

1. A method of contacting a person by phone
   "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"; "She made a telephone call to schedule an appointment";
   - phone call, telephone call
    
2. A request
   "many calls for Christmas stories"; "not many calls for buggywhips"
    
3. A loud utterance; often in protest or opposition
   "the speaker was interrupted by loud calls from the rear of the audience";
   - cry, outcry, yell, shout, vociferation
    
4. 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 parlour of some residence"
    
5. A visit in an official or professional capacity
   "the pastor's calls on his parishioners"; "the salesman's call on a customer"
    
6. The characteristic sound produced by a bird
   "a bird will not learn its call unless it hears it at an early age";
   - birdcall, birdsong, song
    
7. A moral duty or demand
   "He felt a call to serve his community";
   - claim
    
8. A demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring their margin up to the minimum requirement
   "After the stock market crash, many investors received margin calls";
   - margin call
    
9. A demand for a show of hands in a card game
   "after two raises there was a call"
    
10. An instruction that interrupts the program being executed
    "Pascal performs calls by simply giving the name of the routine to be executed"
     
11. (sport) the decision made by an umpire or referee
    "he was ejected for protesting the call"
     
12. The option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
    "He purchased a call option on tech stocks, anticipating a market rally";
    - call option

1. A special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course
   "he was disappointed that he had not heard the Call"

Sounds like: caul

Derived forms: calling, called, calls

See also: call up, invoke, provoke

Type of: address, adjudge, animal communication, arouse, ask, ask for, asking, awaken, bespeak, call for, challenge, command, conclusion, consider, decision, declare, defer, demand, determination, disposition, dispute, emit, enjoin, entice, exact, expect, gainsay, get together, give, guess, hazard, hold, hold over, inclination, indicate, instruction, label, let loose, let out, lure, meet, option, order, play, postpone, pretend, program line, prorogue, put back, put off, put over, read, reckon, regard, remit, request, require, rouse, say, see, set back, shelve, statement, stop, stop over, table [N. Amer], telecommunicate, telephone, telephony, tell, tempt, tendency, turn to, utter, utterance, venture, view, visit, vocalization, wake, wake up, waken

Antonym: put

Part of: card game, cards, span, straddle

Encyclopedia: Call, Rhydon Mays