aanroepen — meaning in English

English meaning

• call verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
• invoke verb To call on something, such as a rule, law, or higher power, for support or justification.

Senses

aanroepen is used for these senses in English:

• call (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program); to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
• invoke (transitive) To call upon (a person, a god) for help, assistance or guidance.
• invoke (transitive, computing) To cause (a program or subroutine) to execute.

call — full definition

1. verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
2. verb To give someone or something a name; to refer to something in a particular way.
3. verb To pay a brief visit, or to stop at a place, especially a ship stopping at a port.
4. verb To predict or officially declare an outcome.
5. noun An act of speaking to someone on the phone.

invoke — full definition

1. verb To call on something, such as a rule, law, or higher power, for support or justification.
2. verb Computing: to cause a program, function, or command to run.

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