English Dictionary

call

/kɔːl/

noun

A telephone conversation; a phone call. / An instance of calling someone on the telephone. / A short visit, usually for social purposes. / (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.

I received a call from my friend yesterday.

意味（1）

A telephone conversation; a phone call.

I received several phone calls today.

意味（2）

An instance of calling someone on the telephone.

I made a call to Jim, but he didn't answer.

意味（3）

A short visit, usually for social purposes.

I paid a call to a dear friend of mine.

意味（4）

(nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.

The ship made a call at Southampton.

意味（5）

A cry or shout.

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

意味（6）

A decision or judgement.

That was a good call.

意味（7）

The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.

That sound is the distinctive call of the cuckoo bird.

意味（8）

A beckoning or summoning.

I had to yield to the call of the wild.

意味（9）

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

The Prime Minister has the call.

意味（10）

(finance) Short for call option.

意味（11）

(cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.

意味（12）

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

意味（13）

(uncountable) A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call.

page 48: “Mondays would be great, especially after a weekend of call.”

page 48: “Mondays would be great, especially after a weekend of call.” page 56: “ […] I’ve got call tonight, and all weekend, but I’ll be off tomorrow to help you some.”

意味（14）

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

意味（15）

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.

意味（16）

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

意味（17）

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

意味（18）

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

意味（19）

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

意味（20）

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

意味（21）

(archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.

意味（22）

(US, law) 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.

意味（23）

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

They have a little network of women that watch out for each other, Morford said. That means that if one prostitute doesn't come back after going out on a call – whether it's an Internet prostitute or a streetwalker – and the other women can't get hold of her, they get scared, close up shop and won't work, Morford said.

意味（24）

(law) A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.

The work was done by two lawyers, one a 1983 call and the other a 2010 call.

意味（25）

(in negative constructions) Need; necessity.

There's no call for that kind of bad language!