Call
Definition of Call
Pronunciation: kạl v. t. | 1. | To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. | | 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. | | 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. | | 4. | To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name.If you would but call me Rosalind. - Shak. | | 5. | To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate. | | 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. | | 7. | To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of. | | 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. | | 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. | 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. | | 2. | To make a demand, requirement, or request. | | 3. | To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders. | n. | 1. | 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. | | 2. | A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty. | | 3. | (Eccl.) An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor. | | 4. | A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case; a moral requirement or appeal. | | 5. | A divine vocation or summons. | | 6. | Vocation; employment. | | 7. | A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders. | | 8. | (Hunting) A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds. | | 9. | (Naut.) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty. | | 10. | (Fowling) 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. | | 11. | (Amer. Land 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. | | 12. | The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on. | | 13. | See Assessment, 4. |
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