Call — meaning in English

English meaning

• call verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.

Senses

Call is used for these senses in English:

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

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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