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Coll vs. Call: Decoding the Right Spelling

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By Shumaila Saeed || Updated on December 25, 2023
"Coll is incorrect spelling while Call is correct; a call is a vocal request or a telephone conversation."
Coll vs. Call

Which is correct: Coll or Call

How to spell Call?

Coll is Incorrect

Call is Correct

How to remember correct spelling of Call?

Mnemonic Device: "Cats Always Love Listening" - the first letters spell out 'Call'.
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Association with 'Calling': Remember that 'calling' someone requires the base word 'Call', not 'Coll'.
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Visualize a Phone Call: Imagine making a phone call every time you write the word, linking it to the correct spelling.
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Break it Down: Think of 'Call' as 'C-All', emphasizing that you call 'all' to gather or communicate.
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Link to 'Ball': Remember that 'Call' rhymes with 'ball', both ending with 'all'.
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Call Definitions

Telephone Communication
He decided to call his friend rather than text.
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A Visit or Brief Stop
We made a call at the nearby store.
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To say in a loud voice; announce
Called my name from across the street.
Calling out numbers.
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To demand or ask for the presence of
Called the children to dinner.
Call the police.
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To demand or ask for a meeting of; convene or convoke
Call the legislature into session.
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To order or request to undertake a particular activity or work; summon
She was called for jury duty. He was called to the priesthood.
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To give the command for; order
Call a work stoppage.
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To communicate or try to communicate with by telephone
Called me at nine.
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To dial (a telephone number)
Call 911 for help.
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To lure (prey) by imitating the characteristic cry of an animal
Call ducks.
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To cause to come to the mind or to attention
A story that calls to mind an incident in my youth.
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To name
What will you call the baby?.
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To consider or regard as being of a particular type or kind; characterize
Let's call the game a draw. I'd hardly call him a good manager.
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To designate; label
Nobody calls me a liar.
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To demand payment of
Call a loan.
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To require the presentation of (a bond) for redemption before maturity.
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To force the sale of (a stock or commodity) by exercising a call option.
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To stop or postpone (a game) because of bad weather, darkness, or other adverse conditions.
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To declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee
Call a runner out.
Call a penalty for holding.
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To indicate a decision in regard to
Calling balls and strikes.
Called a close play at home plate.
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To give the orders or signals for
A quarterback who called a poor play.
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To describe the intended outcome of (one's billiard shot) before playing.
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In poker, to place a bet equal to (the preceding bet or bettor).
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To indicate or characterize accurately in advance; predict
It is often difficult to call the outcome of an election.
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To challenge the truthfulness or genuineness of
Called the debater on a question of fact.
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To shout directions in rhythm for (a square dance).
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To speak loudly; shout
A swimmer who was calling for help.
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To utter a characteristic cry. Used of an animal
Geese calling in the early morning.
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To communicate or try to communicate with someone by telephone
I called twice, but no one answered.
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To pay a short visit
We called to pay our respects. He called on the neighbors but they weren't home.
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(Games) In poker, to place a bet equal to the preceding bet.
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A loud cry; a shout.
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The characteristic cry of an animal.
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A sound or an instrument made to imitate such a cry, used as a lure
A moose call.
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A telephone communication or connection.
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Need or occasion
There was no call for an apology.
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Demand
There isn't much call for buggy whips today.
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A claim on a person's time or life
The call of duty.
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A short visit, especially one made as a formality or for business or professional purposes.
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A summons or invitation.
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A signal, such as that made by a horn or bell.
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The sounding of a horn to encourage hounds during a hunt.
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A strong inner urge or prompting; a vocation
A call to the priesthood.
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The strong attraction or appeal of a given activity or environment
The call of the wild.
Answered the call of the desert.
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A roll call.
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A notice of rehearsal times posted in a theater.
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A decision made by an umpire or referee.
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An announced description of a game or race, as by a sportscaster.
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A direction or series of directions rhythmically called out to square dancers.
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A demand for payment of a debt.
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A demand to submit bonds to the issuer for redemption before the maturity date.
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An option to buy a certain quantity of a stock or commodity for a specified price within a specified time.
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A demand for payment due on stock bought on margin when the value has shrunk.
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A telephone conversation; a phone call.
I received several phone calls today.
I received several calls today.
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An instance of calling someone on the telephone.
I made a call to Jim, but he didn't answer.
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A short visit, usually for social purposes.
I paid a call to a dear friend of mine.
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(nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
The ship made a call at Southampton.
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A cry or shout.
He heard a call from the other side of the room.
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A decision or judgement.
That was a good call.
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The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
That sound is the distinctive call of the cuckoo bird.
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A beckoning or summoning.
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.
The Prime Minister has the call.
I give the call to the Manager of Opposition Business.
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(finance) call option
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(cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
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(cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
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(uncountable) A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call.
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(computing) 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.
There was a 20 dollar bet on the table, and my call was 9.
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(poker) 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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(nautical) 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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(archaic) 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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A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
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(law) A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.
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(in negative constructions) Need; necessity.
There's no call for that kind of bad language!
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To use one's voice.
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(intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon.
That person is hurt; call for help!
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(intransitive) To cry or shout.
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(transitive) To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
To call the roll of a military company
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(ambitransitive) To contact by telephone.
Why don’t you call me in the morning?
Why don’t you call tomorrow?
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(transitive) To declare in advance.
The captains call the coin toss.
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To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
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To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.
After the third massive failure, John called the whole initiative.
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To request that one's band play (a particular tune).
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To visit.
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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.
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To stop at a station or port.
This train calls at Reading, Slough and London Paddington.
Our cruise ship called at Bristol Harbour.
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To come to pass; to afflict.
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To name, identify or describe.
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(ditransitive) To name or refer to.
Why don’t we dispense with the formalities. Please call me Al.
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(in passive) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
I’m called John.
A very tall building is called a skyscraper.
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(transitive) To predict.
He called twelve of the last three recessions.
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To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
They call the distance ten miles.
That's enough work. Let's call it a day and go home.
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(transitive) To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death.
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(transitive) To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.
I call bullshit.
She called foul on their scheme.
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(obsolete) To disclose the class or character of; to identify.
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Direct or indirect use of the voice.
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(cricket) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
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(of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).
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To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.
I bet $800 and Jane raised to $1600. My options: call (match her $1600 bet), reraise or fold.
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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.)
I’ll call your 300, and raise to 600!
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(transitive) To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
My partner called two spades.
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To require, demand.
He felt called to help the old man.
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To cause to be verbally subjected to.
The basis for his conclusion was called into doubt
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To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
I call the comfy chair!
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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.
A recursive function is one that calls itself.
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(Yorkshire) To scold.
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(sports) To make a decision as a referee or umpire.
The goal was called offside.
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(cue sports) To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.
Every shot must be called.
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To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.
Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain
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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.
Paul . . . called to be an apostle
The Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
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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.
Now call we our high court of Parliament.
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To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name.
If you would but call me Rosalind.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.
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To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate.
What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
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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.
[The] army is called seven hundred thousand men.
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To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of.
This speech calls him Spaniard.
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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.
No parish clerk who calls the psalm so clear.
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To invoke; to appeal to.
I call God for a witness.
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To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; - sometimes with to.
You must call to the nurse.
The angel of God called to Hagar.
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To make a demand, requirement, or request.
They called for rooms, and he showed them one.
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To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders.
He ordered her to call at the house once a week.
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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.
I rose as at thy call, but found thee not.
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A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty.
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A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case; a moral requirement or appeal.
Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity.
Running into danger without any call of duty.
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A divine vocation or summons.
St. Paul himself believed he did well, and that he had a call to it, when he persecuted the Christians.
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Vocation; employment.
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A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders.
The baker's punctual call.
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A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds.
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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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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.
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The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on.
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A telephone connection;
She reported several anonymous calls
He placed a phone call to London
He heard the phone ringing but didn't want to take the call
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A special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course;
He was disappointed that he had not heard the Call
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A loud utterance; often in protest or opposition;
The speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience
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A demand especially in the phrase
The call of duty
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The characteristic sound produced by a bird;
A bird will not learn its song unless it hears it at an early age
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A brief social visit;
Senior professors' wives no longer make afternoon calls on newcomers
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A demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement
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A demand for a show of hands in a card game;
After two raises there was a call
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A request;
Many calls for Christmas stories
Not many calls for buggywhips
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An instruction that interrupts the program being executed;
Pascal performs calls by simply giving the name of the routine to be executed
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Brief visit in an official or professional capacity;
The pastor's visits to his parishioners
A visit to a dentist
The salesman's call on a customer
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(sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee;
He was ejected for protesting the call
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The option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
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Assign a specified, proper name to;
They named their son David
The new school was named after the famous Civil Rights leader
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Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone;
I tried to call you all night
Take two aspirin and call me in the morning
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Ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality;
He called me a bastard
She called her children lazy and ungrateful
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Order, request, or command to come;
She was called into the director's office
Call the police!
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Utter a sudden loud cry;
She cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle
I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me
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Pay a brief visit;
The mayor likes to call on some of the prominent citizens
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Call a meeting; invite or command to meet;
The Wannsee Conference was called to discuss the `Final Solution'
The new dean calls meetings every week
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Order or request or give a command for;
The unions called a general strike for Sunday
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Order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role;
He was already called 4 times for jury duty
They called him to active military duty
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Indicate a decision in regard to;
Call balls and strikes behind the plate
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Stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather;
Call a football game
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Read aloud to check for omissions or absentees;
Call roll
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Send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc.; make a signal to in order to transmit a message;
Hawaii is calling!
A transmitter in Samoa was heard calling
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Declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee;
Call a runner out
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Utter a characteristic note or cry;
Bluejays called to one another
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Utter in a loud voice or announce;
He called my name
The auctioneer called the bids
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Make a prediction about; tell in advance;
Call the outcome of an election
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Challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense;
He deserves to be called on that
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Consider or regard as being;
I would not call her beautiful
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Demand payment of (a loan);
Call a loan
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Give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance
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Greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name;
He always addresses me with `Sir'
Call me Mister
She calls him by first name
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Make a stop in a harbour;
The ship will call in Honolulu tomorrow
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Make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands;
He called his trump
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Require the presentation of for redemption before maturation;
Call a bond
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Lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal;
Call ducks
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Challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of;
Call the speaker on a question of fact
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Rouse somebody from sleep with a call;
I was called at 5 A.M. this morning
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To Shout or Cry Out
She had to call for help when her car broke down.
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A Demand or Request
The situation calls for immediate action.
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A Profession or Vocation
He felt a call to become a teacher.
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Repeatedly Asked Queries

How can one remember 'Call' is spelled with 'all'?

By associating 'Call' with words like 'ball' or 'tall', which also end in 'all'.
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Why is 'Coll' considered incorrect?

'Coll' is a misspelling; 'Call' is the correct form, referring to vocal communication or summoning.
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Is 'Call' often misspelled as 'Coll'?

While not as common, 'Call' can be misspelled as 'Coll', particularly in hurried or informal writing.
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What is the origin of 'Call'?

'Call' comes from the Old Norse 'kalla', meaning to cry loudly or summon.
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What is a common error when using 'Call'?

A common error is misspelling it as 'Coll', especially among non-native speakers.
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Can 'Call' have negative connotations?

In some contexts, 'call' can be negative, such as a call to war or a distress call.
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Can 'Call' be used as both a noun and a verb?

Yes, 'Call' functions as both a noun (a phone call) and a verb (to call someone).
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What are some synonyms for 'Call'?

Synonyms include 'shout', 'cry', 'summon', 'phone', and 'name', depending on the context.
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In what contexts is 'Call' commonly used?

'Call' is used in contexts like communication, professions, demands, and even bird calls.
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Are there any common phrases or idioms with 'Call'?

Common idioms include 'call it a day' (to stop working) and 'close call' (a narrow escape).
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How has the usage of 'Call' evolved over time?

'Call' has evolved from a term for vocal shouting to include modern uses like telephone calls.
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Does 'Call' have different meanings in American and British English?

The meanings of 'Call' are consistent across English dialects, though colloquial uses may vary.
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What is an antonym for 'Call' in the context of communication?

Antonyms include 'ignore', 'silence', or 'dismiss'.
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How is 'Call' used in the business world?

In business, 'call' can refer to a phone meeting or a decision-making term in finance.
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Is 'Call' associated with specific historical events or periods?

While 'Call' is a general term, it's been historically significant in contexts like military calls or historical summonings.
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