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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

  1. verb To offer a specific amount of money for something, especially at an auction.
  2. noun An offer of a price, or a formal offer to carry out a piece of work.
  3. noun An attempt or effort to achieve something.

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.

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