<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to cry out in a loud voice; shout: He called her name to see if she was home.</li><li>to command or request to come; summon: to call a dog; to call a cab; to call a witness.</li><li>to ask or invite to come: Will you call the family to dinner?</li><li>to communicate or try to communicate with by telephone: Call me when you arrive.</li><li>to rouse from sleep, as by a call; waken: Call me at eight o'clock.</li><li>to read over (a roll or a list) in a loud voice.</li><li>to convoke or convene: We will now call Congress into session.</li><li>to announce authoritatively; proclaim: The company called a halt to production of their latest line after many items failed quality checks.</li><li>to order into effect; decree: The union is planning to call a strike late this year.</li><li>to schedule: The director should call one more rehearsal before opening night.</li><li>to summon by or as if by divine command: He felt called to the ministry.</li><li>to summon to an office, duty, etc.: His country called him to service during the Korean War.</li><li>to cause to come; bring: to call to mind; to call into existence.</li><li>to bring under consideration or discussion: The judge called the case to court.</li><li>to attract or lure (birds or animals) by imitating characteristic sounds.</li><li>to direct or attract (attention): He called his roommate's attention to the mess.</li><li>to name or address (someone) as: His parents named him James, but the boys call him Jim.</li><li>to designate as something specified: He called me a liar.</li><li>to think of as something specified; consider; estimate: I call that a mean remark.</li><li>to demand of (someone) that they fulfill a promise, furnish evidence for a statement, etc.: They called him on his story.</li><li>to criticize adversely; express disapproval of; censure: She called him on his vulgar language.</li><li>to demand payment or fulfillment of (a loan).</li><li>to demand presentation of (bonds) for redemption.</li><li>to forecast correctly: He has called the outcome of the last three elections.</li><li>(of an official) to pronounce a judgment on (a shot, pitch, batter, etc.): The umpire called the pitch a strike.</li><li>to put an end to (a contest) because of inclement weather, poor field conditions, etc.: A sudden downpour forced the umpire to call the game.</li><li>to name (the ball) one intends to drive into a particular pocket.</li><li>to invoke (a subroutine or procedure) in a computer program.</li><li>to demand (a card).</li><li>to demand the display of a hand by (a player).</li><li>to equal (a bet) or equal the bet made by (the preceding bettor) in a round.</li><li>to signal one's partner for a lead of (a certain card or suit).</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a cry or shout: She gave a call across the lawn to her friend.</li><li>the cry or vocal sound of a bird or other animal: A crow's call sounds different from a raven's.</li><li>an instrument for imitating this cry and attracting or luring an animal: He bought a duck call.</li><li>an act or instance of telephoning: She returned his call as soon as her meeting was over.</li><li>a short visit: to make a call on someone.</li><li>a summons or signal sounded by a bugle, bell, etc.: We live so close to the fort that we can hear the bugle calls.</li><li>a summons, invitation, or bidding: The students gathered at the call of the dean.</li><li>a calling of a roll; roll call.</li><li>the fascination or appeal of a given place, vocation, etc.: the call of the sea.</li><li>a mystic experience of divine appointment to a vocation or service: He had a call to become a minister.</li><li>a request or invitation to become pastor of a church, a professor in a university, etc.</li><li>a need or occasion: He had no call to say such outrageous things.</li><li>a demand or claim: to make a call on a person's time.</li><li>a demand for payment of an obligation, especially where payment is at the option of the creditor.</li><li>a demand for a card or a showing of hands.</li><li>an equalizing of the preceding bet.</li><li>a bid or pass.</li><li>a judgment or decision by an umpire, a referee, or other official of a contest, as on a shot, pitch, or batter: The referees were making one bad call after another.</li><li>a notice of rehearsal posted by the stage manager.</li><li>act call; curtain call.</li><li>a figure or direction in square dancing, announced to the dancers by the caller.</li><li>an option that gives the right to buy a fixed amount of a particular stock at a predetermined price within a given period of time, purchased by a person who believes the price will rise.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb Phrase</strong></p><ul><li>to ask; appeal to: They called on him to represent them.</li><li>to visit for a short time: to call on friends.</li><li>to request or pray for; invoke: to call down the wrath of God.</li><li>to reprimand; scold: The boss called us down for lateness.</li><li>to distract; take away: Please call off your dog.</li><li>to cancel (something) that had been planned for a certain date: The performance was called off because of rain.</li><li>to summon into action; bring into existence: to call forth her courage and resolve.</li><li>to cause to leave or go; summon: A death in the family called him away.</li><li>call in (def).</li><li>to go or come to get; pick up; fetch.</li><li>to request; summon.</li><li>to require; need: The occasion calls for a cool head.</li><li>to bring forward for consideration or discussion.</li><li>to cause to remember; evoke.</li><li>to communicate or try to communicate with by telephone.</li><li>to summon for action or service: A large number of Army reservists were called up.</li><li>to summon (information) from a computer system for display on a screen: She called up the full text.</li></ul>