How to pronounce “call”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (heading) To reach out with one's voice.
• (heading, intransitive) To visit.
• (heading) To name, identify, or describe.
• (heading) To declare, or declare in favor of, a predicted or actual result.
• (heading, sports) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
• (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
• (transitive, with into) To cause to be verbally subjected to.
• (transitive, colloquial) To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
• (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
• (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
• (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program); to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
• [Noun]
• A cry or shout.
• The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
• A beckoning or summoning.
• A telephone conversation; a phone call.
• An instance of calling someone on the telephone.
• A short visit, usually for social purposes.
• (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
• A decision or judgement.
• The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
• (finance) Ellipsis of call option.
• (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
• (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
• (uncountable) A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call.
• (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
• A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
• (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
• A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
• (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
• A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
• An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
• (archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.
• (US, 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.
• (informal, slang, prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
• (law) A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.
• (in negative constructions) Need; necessity.
• [Adjective]
• (regional) inapt, unuseful, naive

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