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Common
verb
•
To use
one's
voice
.
To
request
,
summon
, or
beckon
.
To
cry
or
shout
.
To
utter
in a
loud
or
distinct
voice
.
To
contact
by
telephone
.
To
declare
in advance
.
To
rouse
from
sleep
; to
awaken
.
To
declare
(an
effort
or project) to be a
failure
.
•
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
.
•
To
name
,
identify
or
describe
.
To
name
or
refer
to.
Of a person, to have as
one's
name
; of a
thing
, to have as its
name
.
To
predict
.
To
state
, or
estimate
,
approximately
or
loosely
; to
characterize
without
strict
regard
to
fact
.
To
claim
the
existence
of some
malfeasance
; to
denounce
as.
To
disclose
the
class
or
character
of; to
identify
.
•
In Cricket & Sports:
Direct
or
indirect
use of the
voice
.
(of a
batsman
): To
shout
directions
to the other
batsman
on whether
or not
they should take a
run
.
•
In Baseball, Cricket & Sports:
Direct
or
indirect
use of the
voice
.
(of a
fielder
): To
shout
to other
fielders
that he
intends
to take a
catch
(thus
avoiding
collisions
).
•
In Poker & Sports:
Direct
or
indirect
use of the
voice
.
To
equal
the same
amount
that other
players
are
currently
betting
.
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
.)
•
In Sports:
Direct
or
indirect
use of the
voice
.
To
state
, or
invoke
a
rule
, in many
games
such as
bridge
,
craps
,
jacks
,
and so on
.
•
To
require
,
demand
.
•
To
lay claim
to an
object
or role which is
up for grabs
.
•
In Finance:
To
announce
the
early
extinction
of a
debt
by
prepayment
,
usually
at a premium
.
•
In Banking:
To
demand
repayment
of a
loan
.
•
In Computing:
To
jump
to (another part of a
program
) to
perform
some
operation
,
returning
to the
original
point
on
completion
.
noun
•
A
telephone
conversation
; a
phone call
.
•
An
instance
of
calling
someone
on the telephone
.
•
A
short
visit
,
usually
for social
purposes
.
•
In 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
.
•
In Finance:
An
option
to
buy
stock
at a
specified
price
during or at a
specified
time.
•
In Cricket:
The
act
of
calling
to the other
batsman
.
•
In 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
).
•
In 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
.
•
In 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
.
•
In 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
.
•
Vocation
;
employment
;
calling
.
•
In American English & 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
.
•
A
meeting with
a
client
for
paid
sex
;
hookup
;
job
.
•
In Law:
A
lawyer
who was
called to the Bar
(became
licensed
as a
lawyer
) in a
specified
year.
•
Initialism
of computer-assisted
language
learning.
name
•
A
surname
.
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