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Noun A telephone conversation. A short visit, usually for social purposes. (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port. A cry or shout. A decision or judgement. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal. A beckoning or summoning. The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor. (finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time. (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.) A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see 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. Verb (heading) To use one's voice. (intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon. (intransitive) To cry or shout. (transitive) To utter in a loud or distinct voice. (transitive, intransitive) To contact by telephone. (transitive) To declare in advance. To rouse from sleep; to awaken. To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure. (heading, intransitive) To visit. To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again). To stop at a station or port. (heading) To name, identify or describe. (transitive) To name or refer to. (in passive) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name. (transitive) To predict. To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact. (obsolete) To disclose the class or character of; to identify. (heading, sports) Direct or indirect use of the voice. (cricket) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run. (baseball, cricket) (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions). (intransitive, poker) To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting. (intransitive, poker, proscribed) To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.) (transitive) To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on. (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand. (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium. (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan. (computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion. Find more words! 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