Coll vs. Call: Decoding the Right Spelling

Telephone Communication

A Visit or Brief Stop

To say in a loud voice; announce

To demand or ask for the presence of

To demand or ask for a meeting of; convene or convoke

To order or request to undertake a particular activity or work; summon

To give the command for; order

To communicate or try to communicate with by telephone

To dial (a telephone number)

To lure (prey) by imitating the characteristic cry of an animal

To cause to come to the mind or to attention

To name

To consider or regard as being of a particular type or kind; characterize

To designate; label

To demand payment of

To require the presentation of (a bond) for redemption before maturity.

To force the sale of (a stock or commodity) by exercising a call option.

To stop or postpone (a game) because of bad weather, darkness, or other adverse conditions.

To declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee

To indicate a decision in regard to

To give the orders or signals for

To describe the intended outcome of (one's billiard shot) before playing.

In poker, to place a bet equal to (the preceding bet or bettor).

To indicate or characterize accurately in advance; predict

To challenge the truthfulness or genuineness of

To shout directions in rhythm for (a square dance).

To speak loudly; shout

To utter a characteristic cry. Used of an animal

To communicate or try to communicate with someone by telephone

To pay a short visit

(Games) In poker, to place a bet equal to the preceding bet.

A loud cry; a shout.

The characteristic cry of an animal.

A sound or an instrument made to imitate such a cry, used as a lure

A telephone communication or connection.

Need or occasion

Demand

A claim on a person's time or life

A short visit, especially one made as a formality or for business or professional purposes.

A summons or invitation.

A signal, such as that made by a horn or bell.

The sounding of a horn to encourage hounds during a hunt.

A strong inner urge or prompting; a vocation

The strong attraction or appeal of a given activity or environment

A roll call.

A notice of rehearsal times posted in a theater.

A decision made by an umpire or referee.

An announced description of a game or race, as by a sportscaster.

A direction or series of directions rhythmically called out to square dancers.

A demand for payment of a debt.

A demand to submit bonds to the issuer for redemption before the maturity date.

An option to buy a certain quantity of a stock or commodity for a specified price within a specified time.

A demand for payment due on stock bought on margin when the value has shrunk.

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.

A cry or shout.

A decision or judgement.

The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.

A beckoning or summoning.

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

(finance) call option

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.

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.

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

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

(in negative constructions) Need; necessity.

To use one's voice.

(intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon.

(intransitive) To cry or shout.

(transitive) To utter in a loud or distinct voice.

(ambitransitive) To contact by telephone.

(transitive) To declare in advance.

To rouse from sleep; to awaken.

To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.

To request that one's band play (a particular tune).

To visit.

To pay a (social) visit often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again.

To stop at a station or port.

To come to pass; to afflict.

To name, identify or describe.

(ditransitive) To name or refer to.

(in passive) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.

(transitive) To predict.

To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.

(transitive) To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death.

(transitive) To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.

(obsolete) To disclose the class or character of; to identify.

Direct or indirect use of the voice.

(cricket) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.

(of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).

To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.

To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.)

(transitive) To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.

To require, demand.

To cause to be verbally subjected to.

To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.

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

To demand repayment of a loan.

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

(Yorkshire) To scold.

(sports) To make a decision as a referee or umpire.

(cue sports) To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious character; - often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church.

To invite or command to meet; to convoke; - often with together; as, the President called Congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen.

To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name.

To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate.

To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work.

To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of.

To utter in a loud or distinct voice; - often with off; as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a military company.

To invoke; to appeal to.

To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; - sometimes with to.

To make a demand, requirement, or request.

To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders.

The act of calling; - usually with the voice, but often otherwise, as by signs, the sound of some instrument, or by writing; a summons; an entreaty; an invitation; as, a call for help; the bugle's call.

A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty.

A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case; a moral requirement or appeal.

A divine vocation or summons.

Vocation; employment.

A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders.

A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds.

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

The cry of a bird; also a noise or cry in imitation of a bird; or a pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.

The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on.

See Assessment, 4.

A telephone connection;

A special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course;

A loud utterance; often in protest or opposition;

A demand especially in the phrase

The characteristic sound produced by a bird;

A brief social visit;

A demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement

A demand for a show of hands in a card game;

A request;

An instruction that interrupts the program being executed;

Brief visit in an official or professional capacity;

(sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee;

The option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date

Assign a specified, proper name to;

Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone;

Ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality;

Order, request, or command to come;

Utter a sudden loud cry;

Pay a brief visit;

Call a meeting; invite or command to meet;

Order or request or give a command for;

Order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role;

Indicate a decision in regard to;

Stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather;

Read aloud to check for omissions or absentees;

Send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc.; make a signal to in order to transmit a message;

Declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee;

Utter a characteristic note or cry;

Utter in a loud voice or announce;

Make a prediction about; tell in advance;

Challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense;

Consider or regard as being;

Demand payment of (a loan);

Give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance

Greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name;

Make a stop in a harbour;

Make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands;

Require the presentation of for redemption before maturation;

Lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal;

Challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of;

Rouse somebody from sleep with a call;

To Shout or Cry Out

A Demand or Request

A Profession or Vocation