call
/kɔl/ verb A2- To request, summon, or beckon. · That person is hurt; call for help!
- To cry or shout. · "Supper's ready," called Dad from the kitchen.
- To utter in a loud or distinct voice. · to call the roll of a military company
- To contact by telephone. · Why don’t you call me in the morning?· Why don’t you call tomorrow?
- To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
- To request that one's band play (a particular tune).
- To scold.
- 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.
Plural call · He/she/it calls · Past called · Past participle called · -ing form calling
Verb forms
- Base form
- call
- He/she/it
- calls
- Past
- called
- Past participle
- called
- -ing form
- calling
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- call around To make several phone calls, usually for the purpose of l...
- call away To summon; to cause to depart.
- call back To request someone's return; to bring back or restore; to...
- call down To lower (a price, value) by official proclamation.
- call in To communicate with a base etc, by telephone.
- call off To recall; to cancel or call a halt to.
- call on To visit (a person); to pay a call to.
- call out To specify, especially in detail.
- call over To ask (someone) to come to one's location, especially wh...
- call up To retrieve from personal or computer memory.
From the library
But when the Wolf, day after day, kept in the company of the sheep and did not make the slightest effort to seize them, the Shepherd began to look upon him as a guardian of his flock rather than as a plotter of evil against it; and when occasion called him one day into the city, he left the sheep entirely in his charge.
Then I thought, as the country was so green and beautiful, I would call it the Emerald City; and to make the name fit better I put green spectacles on all the people, so that everything they saw was green.”
The prisoner heard the cry, which sounded like the sob of a broken heart, and leaning from the coach he called out, “Good-bye, Mercédès—we shall soon meet again!” Then the vehicle disappeared round one of the turnings of Fort Saint Nicholas.
And then she called a dozen of her slaves, who were the Winkies, and gave them sharp spears, telling them to go to the strangers and destroy them.
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