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say it: kawl
call is a verb and noun meaning "assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to". It carries 41 recorded senses.
get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
“I tried to call you all night”
“Take two aspirin and call me in the morning”
telephone
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”
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 Samoa was heard calling”
telecommunication
stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather
“call a football game”
give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance
make a prediction about; tell in advance
“Call the outcome of an election”
challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense
“He deserves to be called on that”
order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role
“He was already called 4 times for jury duty”
“They called him to active military duty”
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”
a special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course
“he was disappointed that he had not heard the Call”
a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition
“the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience”
the characteristic sound produced by a bird
“a bird will not learn its song unless it hears it at an early age”
a brief social visit
“senior professors' wives no longer make afternoon calls on newcomers”
“the characters in Henry James' novels are forever paying calls on each other, usually in the parlor of some residence”
a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement
an instruction that interrupts the program being executed
“Pascal performs calls by simply giving the name of the routine to be executed”
(sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee
“he was ejected for protesting the call”
sport
the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for call come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.