kutsua — meaning in English
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English meaning
- BID verb To offer a specific amount of money for something, especially at an auction.
- call verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
- dub verb To give something a name or nickname.
- hail noun Small, hard balls of ice that fall from the sky during a storm.
- invite verb To ask someone to come to an event or take part in something.
- invoke verb To call on something, such as a rule, law, or higher power, for support or justification.
- summon verb To officially call people to come together or appear somewhere.
Senses
kutsua is used for these senses in English:
- bid (transitive) To invite; to summon.
- call (intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon.
- call To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
- call (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program); to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
- call for To shout out in order to summon (a person).
- call up (transitive) To select e.g. to a sports squad.
- dub (transitive, now, informal) To name, to entitle, to call. [from the later 16th c.]
- go by To be called, to use as a name.
BID — full definition
- verb To offer a specific amount of money for something, especially at an auction.
- noun An offer of a price, or a formal offer to carry out a piece of work.
- noun An attempt or effort to achieve something.
call — full definition
- verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
- verb To give someone or something a name; to refer to something in a particular way.
- verb To pay a brief visit, or to stop at a place, especially a ship stopping at a port.
- verb To predict or officially declare an outcome.
- noun An act of speaking to someone on the phone.