English Dictionary

call

/kɔːl/

verb

(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.

I will call you later.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon.

That person is hurt; call for help!

意味（2）

(intransitive) To cry or shout.

If you heare a child crie in the night you must call to the nurſe and bid her ſtil it.

意味（3）

(transitive) To utter in a loud or distinct voice.

to call the roll of a military company

意味（4）

(transitive, intransitive) To contact by telephone.

Why don’t you call me in the morning? Why don’t you call tomorrow?

意味（5）

(transitive) To declare in advance.

The captains call the coin toss.

意味（6）

To rouse from sleep; to awaken.

Take not away the Taper, leaue it burning: / And if thou canſt awake by foure o'th'clock, / I prythee call me: Sleepe hath ceiz'd me wholly.

意味（7）

To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.

After the third massive failure, John called the whole initiative.

意味（8）

(transitive, jazz) To request that one's band play (a particular tune).

They called I Got Rhythm, and turned to me again for a solo, and I said what?

意味（9）

To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).

We could always call on a friend. The engineer called round whilst you were away.

意味（10）

To stop at a station or port.

This train calls at Reading, Slough and London Paddington. Our cruise ship called at Bristol Harbour.

意味（11）

To come to pass; to afflict.

They say your love will surely fade girl / When things go wrong and trouble calls

意味（12）

(ditransitive) To name or refer to.

Why don’t we dispense with the formalities. Please call me Al.

意味（13）

(in passive) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.

I’m called John. A very tall building is called a skyscraper.

意味（14）

(transitive) To predict.

He called twelve of the last three recessions.

意味（15）

To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.

They call the distance ten miles. That's enough work. Let's call it a day and go home.

意味（16）

(transitive) To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death.

“Let’s call it. Time of death, 08:45.” The respiratory therapist stopped bagging. The doctor stopped CPR. There was no heartbeat on the monitor. Michael was dead.

2012, Marcy O. Diehl, Medical Transcription: Techniques and Procedures (Seventh Edition), page 127:

“Let’s call it. Time of death, 08:45.” The respiratory therapist stopped bagging. The doctor stopped CPR. There was no heartbeat on the monitor. Michael was dead. 2012, Marcy O. Diehl, Medical Transcription: Techniques and Procedures (Seventh Edition), page 127: EXAMPLES: Time of death was called at 16:34(Incorrect). Time of death was called at 1634 p.m.(Incorrect). Time of death was called at 1634 hours(Correct). NOTE: Military (or 24-hour) time is not used with a.m, p.m, or o’clock. It is frequently used to state birth and death times, as well as time of day in autopsy protocols. It is customary to write the word hours after the figures.

意味（17）

(transitive) To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.

I call bullshit. She called foul on their scheme.

意味（18）

(obsolete) To disclose the class or character of; to identify.

This ſpeech calls him Spaniard, being nothing but / A large inventory of his own commendations.

意味（19）

(cricket) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.

意味（20）

(baseball, cricket) (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).

意味（21）

(intransitive, poker) To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.

I bet $800 and Jane raised to $1600. My options: call (match her $1600 bet), reraise or fold.

意味（22）

(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.)

I’ll call your 300, and raise to 600!

意味（23）

(transitive) To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.

My partner called two spades.

意味（24）

(transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.

He felt called to help the old man.

意味（25）

(transitive, colloquial) To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.

I call the comfy chair!

意味（26）

(transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.

意味（27）

(transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.

意味（28）

(transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.

A recursive function is one that calls itself.

意味（29）

(Yorkshire) To scold.

CALL 1 scold"