Definition of call'd in English English dictionary
- calendar call
- A hearing at which a judge will require all attorneys with cases pending before the court to appear so that the court may schedule hearings and trials
- call
- A decision or judgement
That was a good call.
- call
- A telephone conversation
I received several calls today.
- call
- To name or refer to
Why don't we dispense with the formalities. Please call me Al.
- call
- A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on
There was a 20 dollar bet on the table, and my call was 9.
- call
- To demand repayment of a loan
- call
- A social visit
I paid a call to a dear friend of mine.
- call
- : To match or equal the amount of poker chips in the pot as the player that bet
- call
- (Can we clean up() this sense?) A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call)
- call
- To cry or shout
I can't see you. Call out to me so I can find you.
- call
- : To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run
- call
- To request, summon, or beckon
That person is hurt, call for help!.
- call
- To contact by telephone
Why don't you call me in the morning.
- call
- To pay a social visit
We could always call on a friend.
- call
- A beckoning or summoning
I had to yield to the call of the wild.
- call
- : An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time
- call
- (with an object preceded by the preposition for) To require, demand
This job calls for patience.
- call
- : To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions.)
- call
- The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
- call
- To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium
- call
- To predict
He called'' twelve of the last three recessions.
- call
- The act of calling to the other batsman
- call
- To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion
- call
- The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the point
- call
- (reflexively: to be called) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name
A very tall building is called a skyscraper.
- call
- A cry or shout
He heard a call from the other side of the room.
- call
- The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal
That sound is the distinctive call of the cuckoo bird.
- call
- To declare in advance
The captains call the coin toss.
- call
- To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on
My partner called 2 spades.
- call 'em as one sees 'em
- To candidly and honestly express an opinion or viewpoint
The pastor told his parishoners, Until the day comes where I am no longer able to preach, I'll call 'em as I see 'em when it comes to our fallen morality..
- call a spade a spade
- to speak the truth; to say things as they really are
Can we this quote? Maybe God just calls a spade a spade, when the president talks to God. - Bright Eyes.
- call an ambulance
- Use a telephone to ensure arrival of an ambulance
- call back
- To return to a shop or residence one has previously visited
- call back
- Request for a second interview or audition, following a successful initial interview
- call back
- To telephone someone again at a more convenient time
- call back
- To request someone's return
- call box
- A telephone box
- call box
- A telephone on the interstate to make phone calls in case of emergency
- call center
- A business location where a person can call for such things as customer service, to place an order, etc
- call center
- A business location where large numbers of telemarketing calls are placed
- call centers
- plural form of call center
- call centre
- Alternative spelling of call center
- call centres
- plural form of call centre
- call collect
- To make a telephone call in which the cost of the call is paid by the person receiving the call
- call date
- A date on which a callable bond may be redeemed before its maturity
- call dates
- plural form of call date
- call delay
- The time between the instant a system receives a call attempt and the instant of initiation of ringing at the call receiver end instrument
- call delay
- In telecommunication, the delay that occurs when a call arrives at an automatic switching device and no channel or facility is immediately available to process the call
- call drink
- A mixed drink for which one specifies (i.e., calls) the exact brand or brands of liquor to be used
Call drinks generally cost more than well drinks.
- call drinks
- plural form of call drink
- call for
- To stop at a place and ask for (someone)
I'll call for you just after midday.
- call for
- To ask for in a loud voice
We finished the main course in short order and called for more wine.
- call for
- To shout out in order to summon (a person)
I leant out of the back door and called for Lucy.
- call for
- To necessitate, demand
This situation calls for a high degree of courage.
- call for
- To request, demand
The government has called for an end to hostilities in the region.
- call forth
- To induce, inspire
- call girl
- A female prostitute, especially one who is hired by telephone
- call girls
- plural form of call girl
- call graph
- A directed graph that represents relationships between called and calling subroutines in a computer program, used in code analysis
- call graphs
- plural form of call graph
- call history
- A sorted list, derived from the above, showing those numbers called most often
- call history
- An itemised list of the telephone numbers called from a particular account
- call in
- To withdraw something from sale or circulation
- call in
- To summon someone, especially for help or advice
- call in
- To communicate with a base etc, by telephone
- call it a day
- To retire
- call it a day
- To cease the activity for the day
- call it a night
- To go to bed to sleep
- call it a night
- To cease what one has been doing for the night
- call it as one sees it
- To speak frankly about a given topic
- call it even
- To declare debts resolved or favors or other exchange equitable
Since you paid for dinner last time, I'll pay this time, and we'll call it even.
- call it quits
- To conclude; to quit or stop an activity, especially after applying oneself to it for a significant period of time
If you've been working so long that you're making matters worse, it might be time to call it quits and stop for the night.
- call letters
- Call sign
- call names
- To insult somebody childishly; to engage in name-calling
- call number
- a mark consisting of characters written on a book; used to indicate shelf location
- call number
- a combination of characters assigned to a library book to indicate its place on a shelf
- call number
- An identification number, which identifies and locates material within a library
- call of nature
- The bodily urge to urinate or defecate
Cook's concentration may have been broken by a call of nature a few minutes earlier, when he held up play to visit the bathroom.
- call off
- To recall; to cancel or call a halt to
The police called off the search for the missing boy.
- call off the dogs
- During a one-sided sports contest, to remove the first-string unit of a team from the game after dominating the opponent
Doing the opponents an obvious favor, the football coach decided to call off the dogs early after his team was up 56-0.
- call off the dogs
- To ease up on after inflicting great punishment
- call on
- To visit (a person); to pay a call to
I really should call on my aunt more often.
- call on
- To select (a student)
Mr. Rayney, Mr. Rayney,” the reporters clamored, and hands shot up. ¶ Charlotte called on the reporter from the L.A. Times, promising herself that she would lead with the OC Register reporter next time.
- call on
- To correct; to point out an error or untruth
The salesman persisted in quoting a rate higher than was listed, until we called him on it.
- call on
- To request or ask something of (a person); to select for a task
De Gaulle called on the military to break with their hierarchical superiors and on the other French citizens to distance themselves from their government.
- call on the carpet
- To reprimand; to censure severely or angrily
- call originator
- The person or machine placing a call to another subscriber on a telephone network
- call out
- A meeting or rally held in order to find interested participants, eg. for an activity or sports team
So many people attended the basketball call out that the coach decided to form 2 teams.
- call out
- An incidence of someone being summoned for some purpose
I had to pay for the call out of the plumber after the pipe burst.
- call out
- To order into service; to summon into service
The Governor called out the National Guard.
- call out
- To yell out; to vocalize audibly; announce
You just call out my name / And you know wherever I am / I'll come running to see you again.
- call out
- To challenge, to denounce
He was very insulting. Finally Jack called him out and shut him up.
- call out
- To specify, especially in detail
They call out 304 stainless steel in the drawing, but the part was made from aluminum.
- call outs
- plural form of call out
- call premium
- The amount over par value an issuer must pay to redeem a callable bond on a call date
- call screening
- The process of evaluating the characteristics of a telephone call before a conversation. Some methods may include:
- call sign
- A combination of letters and numbers used to identify a radio or television station
- call sign
- Any combination of characters or pronounceable words, which identifies a communication facility, a command, an authority, an activity, or a unit; used primarily for establishing and maintaining communications. Also called CS. (JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms.)
- call signs
- plural form of call sign
- call someone's bluff
- To take action on the basis that another person is bluffing
- call stack
- A stack that stores details of the functions called by a program in sequence, so that each function can return on completion to the code that called it
- call stacks
- plural form of call stack
- call the ball
- To sight the red fresnel light that shows a pilot to be on the correct approach path
- call the police
- Use telephone to ensure arrival of a police officer—a member of the organisation granted the legal authority to enforce the law
- call the shots
- To make the decisions; to be in charge; to give orders
You may know all about glassblowing, but here in the gym I call the shots.
- call them as one sees them
- Alternative form of call it as one sees it
- call to mind
- To cause to think about; to evoke
This sort of painting calls to mind what musicians call timbre.
- call to mind
- To intentionally think about; to reflect upon
- call to order
- To formally signal the start of a meeting or function
- call to prayer
- A public proclamation made five times a day in Muslim societies, broadcast from the mosques, to mark out the ordained occasions for worship
- call up
- To select e.g. to a sports squad
- call up
- To retrieve from personal or computer memory
- call up
- To call on the telephone
- call up
- An order to report for military service
- call ups
- plural form of call up
- call value
- The amount that must be paid by the issuer to a bondholder to call the bond before its maturity
The 2020s sell at 104, have a good yield, but are callable in 2010 with a call value of 103.
- call-by-future
- An evaluation strategy in which the arguments to a function are evaluated concurrently with the function body
- call-by-name
- An evaluation strategy in which the arguments to a function are evaluated when the function needs to use them
- call-by-need
- An evaluation strategy in which the arguments to a function are evaluated the first time they are used in that function
- call-by-reference
- An evaluation strategy in which the arguments to a function are evaluated first, and a pointer to the result is passed to the function
- call-by-value
- An evaluation strategy in which the arguments to a function are evaluated first, and the result is passed into the function
- call-in
- Such a call
- call-in
- Such a radio programme
- call-in
- Such a caller
- call-in
- In which members of the public telephone the studio and talk live to the presenter
- call-in show
- In television or radio programming, a type of talk show in which a host and, sometimes, one or more guests converse with members of the listening or viewing audience who telephone the show while the program is being broadcast
Billed as the first and only nationwide call-in show, it invites listeners to call collect from anywhere in North America to have a heart-to-heart squawk..
- call-out
- Alternative spelling of call out
- call-out
- A caption or label
- call-up
- Alternative spelling of call up
- cattle call
- An audition which is open to the public and thus draws a large number of applicants, many of whom are inexperienced
- Call after
- Name someone after somebody else
- call
- If you call someone or something a particular thing, you suggest they are that thing or describe them as that thing. The speech was interrupted by members of the Conservative Party, who called him a traitor She calls me lazy and selfish He called it particularly cynical to begin releasing the hostages on Christmas Day Anyone can call themselves a psychotherapist
- call
- {f} shout; cry; invite; make a telephone call; visit
- call
- If you call someone, you telephone them. Would you call me as soon as you find out? A friend of mine gave me this number to call `May I speak with Mr Coyne, please?' --- `May I ask who's calling?' = phone
- call
- If you call something, you say it in a loud voice, because you are trying to attract someone's attention. He could hear the others downstairs in different parts of the house calling his name `Boys!' she called again. Call out means the same as call. The butcher's son called out a greeting The train stopped and a porter called out, `Middlesbrough!'
- call
- {s} referring to someone or something that can be called
- call off
- give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance
- call off the dogs
- to stop criticizing or attacking another person
- call off your dogs
- to stop criticizing or attacking another person
- call the tune
- Exercise authority or be in charge
- call
- {n} a demand, claim, address, summons, pipe
- call
- {v} to name, invite, publish, susmmon, read
- call around
- (deyim) Telephone a number of different people in succession about something
- call dibs
- (deyim) Claim rights/possesion on sth
- call for
- (deyim) To come or go to get (someone or something)
John called for Mary to take her to the dance.
- call off the dogs
- (deyim) Tell your friends to stop harassing me
Okay, I'll pay what I owe you. But call off the dogs!.
- don't call us, we'll call you
- A stereotypical request from a hiring organisation to a potential candidate, suggesting that the candidate will not be hired
