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Definition of Call

Call To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. 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. 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. To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name. To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate. 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. To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of. 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. To invoke; to appeal to. To rouse from sleep; to awaken. To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; -- sometimes with to. To make a demand, requirement, or request. To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders. 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. A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor. A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case; a moral requirement or appeal. A divine vocation or summons. Vocation; employment. A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders. A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds. A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty. 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. 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. The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on. See Assessment, 4. Related Definitions: Account, Act, Address, Agreed, Aldermen, Also, An, And, Any, Appeal, Appoint, Approximately, Arising, As, Assessment, At, Awaken, Be, Bird, Blown, Board, Boatswain, Brief, Bugle, But, By, Call, Called, Calling, Case, Certain, Character, Characterize, Charge, Church, Class, Come, Coming, Command, Commodity, Company, Congress, Convoke, Corresponding, Course, Cry, Daily, Day, Delivery, Demand, Denominate, Description, Designate, Designated, Discharge, Disclose, Distance, Distinct, Divine, Drum, Duty, Employment, Encourage, Entreaty, Especially, Estimate, Fact, Fixed, For, From, Full, Give, Grain, Grant, He, Help, His, Horn, Imitating, Imitation, In, Instrument, Invitation, Invite, Invoke, It, Kind, Land, Loosely, Loud, Make, Mate, Matter, Meet, Meeting, Military, Minister, Ministry, Moral, Name, Nationality, Neighbor, Noise, Note, Object, Of, Off, Office, Often, On, Or, Other, Otherwise, Out, Particular, Pastor, Pipe, Place, Present, President, Price, Privilege, Reference, Regard, Religious, Request, Requirement, Requiring, Roll, Rouse, See, Servant, Serve, Short, Show, Signal, Sleep, Solicit, Some, Sometimes, Sound, Speak, State, Statement, Stock, Stop, Strict, Summon, Summons, Survey, Take, Ten, The, Their, They, Time, To, Together, Tradesman, Trumpet, Used, Utter, Visit, Vocation, Voice, Whistle, With, Within, Without, Work, Writing

Call Quotations I don't even know if I can call myself a director. Charles S. Dutton It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. Marlene Dietrich Call us the future from your past. Fred Schneider All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired. Martin Luther This call for a new culture is not a new idea. John Hutton

Call Translations call in Afrikaans is noem call in Dutch is noemen, heten, benoemen, uitmaken voor call in Finnish is kutsua call in French is appel, appelons, manifeste, appelent, appeler call in German is Anruf {m}, anrufen, rufen, Aufruf {m}, Aufruf call in Italian is fama, chiamare, chiamata call in Latin is adsumo (assumo), citatio, dico, advoco call in Norwegian is kalle call in Portuguese is nomear, chamar, chamada call in Spanish is llamada, gritar, proclama, nombradia

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