Word Finder - calls

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A telephone conversation.

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I received several calls today.

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A short visit, usually for social purposes.

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I paid a call to a dear friend of mine.

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A visit by a ship or boat to a port.

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The ship made a call at Southampton.

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A cry or shout.

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He heard a call from the other side of the room.

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A decision or judgement.

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That was a good call.

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The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.

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That sound is the distinctive call of the cuckoo bird.

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A beckoning or summoning.

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I had to yield to the call of the wild.

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The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.

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I give the call to the Manager of Opposition Business.

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An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.

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The act of calling to the other batsman.

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The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)

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A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).

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The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.

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A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.

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There was a 20 dollar bet on the table, and my call was 9.

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The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.

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A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.

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A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.

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A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.

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An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.

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Vocation; employment; calling.

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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.

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(prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.

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(heading) To use one's voice.

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(heading) To visit.

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(heading) To name, identify or describe.

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(heading) Direct or indirect use of the voice.

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(sometimes with for) To require, demand.

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He felt called to help the old man.

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To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.

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To demand repayment of a loan.

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

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A recursive function is one that calls itself.

Just don't tell him I'm here when he calls, please!

A series of phone calls followed.

Now tell me where the calls come from.

She'll give up her husband who she practically calls stupid and this other Abbott person just so she can live.

I tried to get a number to call her back but she said no incoming calls were allowed.

Yes. I don't want to be home tomorrow when that man calls.

After a series of phone calls to Denver and some monstrous lies, Dean managed to finagle a slot on the bike tour, not an easy accomplishment given the short time before the popular event.

No one responded to her calls, and she found a note on the refrigerator.

Not personally but I think all calls are somehow monitored.

He suggested the center change their policy and not tape calls in the future.

I must be on my way, as business calls.

Do you treat these calls differently from the usual calls?

If one of our guys calls, I'll go.

Of the other German philosophers immediately following Kant, there is only one who calls for notice here, namely, Arthur Schopenhauer.

Lisa dropped her pad and pencil on the couch and crossed the room, wondering who might be calling her on his telephone and why Yancey was screening her calls.

While my relationship with Martha LeBlanc, nee Rossi, dated back to our play pen years and kindergarten days, lately we've hiked different paths, reducing our contact to Christmas cards and once a month phone calls.

Perhaps a female voice would offer less chance of a connection to our other calls.

They gave me a special telephone where the calls come in.

Her stammering made it obvious she'd taken at least some of the calls.

I would think if they see the connection they might be leery of taking our calls.

Though I detest getting back to a city, business calls and I respond.

Brenda Washington who handled tip line calls in Omaha was murdered by this person.

I'll be in touch but please don't trace my calls.

He pretended he needed time to make a few more phone calls but I could see he was disappointed by the delay.

My wife and I had promised each other to remain constantly in phone contact after the close calls in New Hampshire.

I'm taking calls and dealing with issues almost 24/7.

I've got parish calls to make this evening.

She dialed each of them, distressed when both calls went to voicemail.

Suspecting Ving had made a couple of hurried phone calls, she let the call go to voicemail.

Soon as this Fitzgerald guy calls with the details, we'll have a better idea of the time frame.

While there was a comment that father Joe Calvia hadn't taken the news well, no details were given, and no calls from a hospital emergency room followed.

While Cynthia took her shower, Dean made a few phone calls, asking for Ms. Dawkins, but after a dozen tries, he came up empty.

And you make house calls?

But no such calls came, and breathing became easier as the day moved along.

Someone has to cover the calls.

I wish I had someone to screen my calls.

She shook her head and focused on her phone again, willing Logan to return one of her dozens of calls or texts.

You sleep with a wacko, your boyfriend won't return your calls.

Supper was pancakes and eggs, with conversation directed to the children, interrupted by confirming calls from ice climbers who would begin arriving on Thursday.

The state boys figure I'm too close to you to be what somebody calls 'objective'.

Then five minutes later, some guy calls asking for her, by name!

Proper detective work calls for an orderly investigation.

Do you want to tell my why your best friend calls you the Ice Queen?

I'll make some phone calls, but we should get started as soon as possible, even before we're granted permission.

He hadn't responded to her calls in over three days.

We've heard mayday calls from several of them.

It's not good when the big guy calls you.

But I checked out the morning cab calls too.

Dean asked Harrigan to work up his end of the report on the Byrne matter and make a few last minute return phone calls to neighbors, just to dot the I's.

Three more telephone calls to Cece Baldwin were as unsuc­cessful as the first and Dean spent the rest of the evening poring over the Byrne file.