call
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(verb) rouse somebody from sleep with a call; "I was called at 5 A.M. this morning" |
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Related Words: arouse, awaken, rouse, wake up, waken |
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(noun) (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee; "he was ejected for protesting the call" |
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Related Words: conclusion, decision, determination |
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(verb) consider or regard as being; "I would not call her beautiful" |
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Related Words: consider, reckon, regard, see, view |
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(verb) challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of; "call the speaker on a question of fact" |
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Related Words: challenge, dispute, gainsay |
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(verb) utter in a loud voice or announce; "He called my name"; "The auctioneer called the bids" |
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Related Words: emit, let loose, let out, utter |
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(verb) order or request for a specific duty or role; "He was already called 4 times for jury duty" |
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Related Words: request |
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(verb) order or request or give a command for; "The unions called a general strike for Sunday" |
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Related Words: order |
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(verb) lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal: "Call ducks" |
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Related Words: entice, lure, tempt |
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(verb) get or try to get into communication by telephone; "I tried to call you all night"; "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning" |
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Synonyms: call up, phone, ring, telephone |
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Related Words: call in, telecommunicate |
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(verb) order, request, or command to come; "He has been called to active military duty"; "She was called into the director's office"; "Call the police!" |
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Synonyms: send for |
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Related Words: call for, call in, call up, cite, enjoin, hail, lift, mobilize, muster, order, rally, recall, say, summon, summons, tell |
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(verb) declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee; "call a runner out" |
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Related Words: adjudge, declare, hold |
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(verb) challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense; "He deserves to be called on that" |
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Related Words: challenge, dispute, gainsay |
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(verb) require the presentation of for redemption before maturation; "Call a bond" |
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Related Words: ask, expect, require |
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(verb) ascribe a quality to or give a name that reflects a quality; "He called me a bastard"; "She called her children lazy and ungrateful" |
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Related Words: brand, label, miscall, misname, post |
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(verb) utter a characteristic note or cry; "bluejays called to one another" |
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Related Words: emit, let loose, let out, utter |
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(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" |
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Related Words: round, visit |
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(noun) a brief social visit: "senior professors' wives no longer make afternoon calls on newcomers" |
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Related Words: visit |
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(verb) 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 Hawaii was heard calling" |
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Related Words: telecommunicate |
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(verb) read aloud to check for omissions or absentees; "Call roll" |
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Related Words: read |
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(verb) indicate a decision in regard to (sports): "call balls and strikes behind the plate" |
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Related Words: indicate |
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(verb) give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance |
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Synonyms: call off |
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(verb) demand payment of, as of a loan; "Call a loan" |
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Synonyms: call in |
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Related Words: demand, exact |
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(verb) 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" |
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Related Words: bespeak, call for, quest, request |
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(verb) stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather; "call a football game" |
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Related Words: defer, hold over, postpone, put off, put over, remit, set back, shelve, table |
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(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" |
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Related Words: disposition, inclination, tendency |
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(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" |
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Synonyms: phone call, telephone call |
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Related Words: call-back, collect call, conference call, crank call, local call, long-distance, long-distance call, telephone, telephony, trunk call |
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(noun) an instruction that interrupts the program being executed; "Pascal perfroms calls by simply giving the name of the routine to be executed" |
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Related Words: command, function call, instruction, program line, statement, supervisor call instruction, system call |
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(noun) a request; "many calls for Christmas stories"; "not many calls for buggywhips" |
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Related Words: asking, request |
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(noun) a demand especially in the phrase "the call of duty" |
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Synonyms: claim |
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Related Words: demand |
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(noun) a demand for a show of hands in a card game; "after two raises there was a call" |
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Related Words: demand |
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(noun) the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date |
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Synonyms: call option |
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Related Words: option |
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(verb) assign a specified name to; "They named their son David"; "The new school was named after the famous Civil Rights leader"; "Call me Boris" |
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Synonyms: name |
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Related Words: address, baptise, baptize, christen, dub, entitle, label, nickname, rename, style, tag, term, title |
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(verb) make a demand in card games, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands; "He called his trump" |
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Synonyms: bid |
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Related Words: outbid, outcall, overbid, play, preempt, raise, underbid |
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(noun) the characteristic sound produced by a bird; "a bird will not learn its song unless it hears it at an early age" |
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Synonyms: birdcall, birdsong, song |
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Related Words: animal communication |
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(noun) a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement |
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Synonyms: margin call |
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Related Words: demand |
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(verb) pay a brief visit; "The mayor likes to call on some of the prominent citizens" |
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Synonyms: call in, visit |
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Related Words: come by, drop by, drop in, get together, meet, see |
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(noun) a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition; "the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience" |
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Synonyms: cry, outcry, shout, vociferation, yell |
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Related Words: Bronx cheer, battle cry, bellow, bellowing, bird, boo, catcall, clamor, clamoring, clamour, clamouring, halloo, hiss, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, hoot, hosanna, hue and cry, rallying cry, raspberry, razzing, roar, roaring, scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shouting, shriek, shrieking, snort, utterance, war cry, war whoop, whoop, yelling, yodel, yowl, yowling |
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(verb) utter a sudden loud cry; "she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle"; "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me" |
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Synonyms: cry, holler, hollo, scream, shout, shout out, squall, yell |
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Related Words: emit, halloo, hollo, howl, hurrah, let loose, let out, pipe, pipe up, roar, screak, screech, scriech, shriek, shrill, skreak, skreigh, skriech, squawk, ululate, utter, wail, whoop, yawl |
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(verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election" |
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Synonyms: anticipate, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise |
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Related Words: augur, bet, calculate, forecast, guess, hazard, outguess, prophesy, read, secondguess, venture, wager |
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