Call

/kɔ:l/

Thân thiện

Definition

1. Noun:

   • A loud utterance or cry: A vocal sound made to attract attention, often in protest or to communicate.
   • A demand or request: A need or requirement for something.
   • A brief social visit: A short, often formal, visit to someone's home or place of business.
   • A telephone connection: An instance of communicating with someone by telephone.
   • A characteristic sound made by an animal, especially a bird: The distinctive vocalization of a species.
   • A decision made by an official in a game: A ruling by a referee or umpire.
   • A summons or invitation: A request or command to come or assemble.
   • A special urge or vocation: A strong inner prompting toward a particular course of action.

2. Verb:

   • To cry out loudly; to shout: To utter words in a loud voice.
   • To telephone someone: To make a telephone connection to someone.
   • To give a name to; to designate: To address or refer to someone or something by a specific name or title.
   • To request or order someone to come: To summon or ask someone to be present.
   • To make a brief visit: To stop by a place for a short time.
   • To describe or characterize in a specific way: To consider or label someone or something as having particular qualities.
   • To announce or declare: To state something authoritatively.
   • To require or demand: To necessitate a particular action or response.
   • To predict: To foretell an outcome.

Examples of Usage

• Noun:

  • She heard a call for help from the alley.
  • There is a high call for renewable energy technology.
  • The doctor made a house call to see the patient.
  • I missed your call because my phone was on silent.
  • We recognized the bird by its distinctive call.
  • The referee's call was controversial and disputed by fans.
  • He felt a strong call to become a teacher.

• Verb:

  • "Watch out!" he called to the children near the road.
  • Please call me when you arrive at the airport.
  • They decided to call their daughter Sophia.
  • The manager called a staff meeting for 3 PM.
  • We should call on our new neighbors to welcome them.
  • I wouldn't call him lazy; he's just very deliberate.
  • The chairperson called the meeting to order.
  • This situation calls for immediate action.
  • It's difficult to call the election result this early.

Advanced Usage

• "To call it a day/night": To decide to stop working or an activity for the day/evening.

  • We've been painting for hours; let's call it a day.

• "To call into question": To express doubts about the truth or validity of something.

  • The new evidence calls into question the original verdict.

• "To call the shots": To be the person who makes the important decisions.

  • In this company, the CEO calls the shots.

Variants and Related Words

• Calling (n): A strong urge toward a particular way of life or career; a vocation.

  • She believed nursing was her true calling.

• Caller (n): A person who makes a telephone call or a brief visit.

  • The caller did not leave a message.

• Recall (v/n): To remember; to officially order the return of a product.

  • I cannot recall his name. / The company issued a product recall.

Synonyms

• Noun: Cry, shout, yell; demand, request; visit; vocation.
• Verb: Shout, yell; phone, ring; name, dub; summon, convene; visit.

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Call off: To cancel something.

  • They had to call off the picnic due to the storm.

• Call on/upon:

  • To formally ask someone to do something.

    • The professor called on the student to answer.
  • To visit someone.

    • We called on my grandparents last Sunday.

• Call for:

  • To require or demand.

    • This recipe calls for three eggs.
  • To publicly ask for something to happen.

    • Protesters are calling for political reform.

• Call up:

  • To telephone someone.

    • I'll call you up tomorrow.
  • To summon for military service.

    • He was called up during the war.

Related Idioms

• A close call: A situation where something bad nearly happened.

  • That car almost hit us! That was a close call.

• Call it quits: To agree to stop doing something; to end a relationship or activity.

  • After twenty years of working here, he decided to call it quits.

• The call of the wild: A powerful attraction to nature or a primitive way of life.

  • Reading that adventure novel gave him a sense of the call of the wild.

Học thuật

Noun

1. the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
2. (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee
   • he was ejected for protesting the call
3. a visit in an official or professional capacity
   • the pastor's calls on his parishioners
   • the salesman's call on a customer
4. an instruction that interrupts the program being executed
   • Pascal performs calls by simply giving the name of the routine to be executed
5. a request
   • many calls for Christmas stories
   • not many calls for buggywhips
6. a demand for a show of hands in a card game
   • after two raises there was a call
7. a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement
8. 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
9. the characteristic sound produced by a bird
   • a bird will not learn its song unless it hears it at an early age
10. a demand especially in the phrase "the call of duty"
11. a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition
    • the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience
12. a special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course
    • he was disappointed that he had not heard the Call
13. 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

Verb

1. rouse somebody from sleep with a call
   • I was called at 5 A.M. this morning
2. consider or regard as being
   • I would not call her beautiful
3. challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of
   • call the speaker on a question of fact
4. utter in a loud voice or announce
   • He called my name
   • The auctioneer called the bids
5. 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
6. order or request or give a command for
   • The unions called a general strike for Sunday
7. lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal
   • Call ducks
8. declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee
   • call a runner out
9. challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense
   • He deserves to be called on that
10. require the presentation of for redemption before maturation
    • Call a bond
11. make a prediction about; tell in advance
    • Call the outcome of an election
12. indicate a decision in regard to
    • call balls and strikes behind the plate
13. give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance
14. make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands
    • He called his trump
15. demand payment of (a loan)
    • Call a loan
16. make a stop in a harbour
    • The ship will call in Honolulu tomorrow
17. greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name
    • He always addresses me with `Sir'
    • Call me Mister
    • She calls him by first name
18. stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather
    • call a football game
19. utter a characteristic note or cry
    • bluejays called to one another
20. 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
21. read aloud to check for omissions or absentees
    • Call roll
22. 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
23. pay a brief visit
    • The mayor likes to call on some of the prominent citizens
24. order, request, or command to come
    • She was called into the director's office
    • Call the police!
25. utter a sudden loud cry
    • she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle
    • I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me
26. 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
27. ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality
    • He called me a bastard
    • She called her children lazy and ungrateful
28. assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
    • They named their son David
    • The new school was named after the famous Civil Rights leader

Từ đồng nghĩa

• call option
• margin call
• birdcall
• birdsong
• song
• claim
• cry
• outcry
• yell
• shout
• vociferation
• Call
• phone call
• telephone call
• predict
• foretell
• prognosticate
• forebode
• anticipate
• promise
• call off
• bid
• call in
• address
• visit
• send for
• shout out
• scream
• holler
• hollo