A telephone conversation; a phone call.
An instance of calling someone on the telephone.
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) Short for call option.
(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.)
(uncountable) A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. 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.
(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.
(informal, slang, prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
(law) A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.
(in negative constructions) Need; necessity.
Use one's voice to request, summon, beckon, cry, shout, utter in a loud or distinct voice, contact by telephone, declare in advance, rouse from sleep, declare an effort or project to be a failure, and request that one's band play a particular tune in jazz.
(heading, intransitive) To visit, stop at a station or port, or come to pass; to afflict.
Name, identify, describe, refer to, have as a name, predict, state approximately, recognize a death, claim malfeasance
(heading, sports) To use the voice to give directions, shout to avoid collisions, equal the same bet amount in poker, match the current bet amount in preparation for a raise, or state/invoke a rule in various games.
(transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
(transitive, with into) To cause to be verbally subjected to.
(transitive, colloquial) To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
(transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
(transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
(transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
(Yorkshire) To scold.
(sports) To make a decision as a referee or umpire.
(cue sports) To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.