chiamare — meaning in English

English meaning

• 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.
• name noun A word or phrase used to identify a specific person, place, or thing.
• summon verb To officially call people to come together or appear somewhere.

Senses

chiamare is used for these senses in English:

• call To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
• call up (transitive, idiomatic) To call on the telephone.
• dub (transitive, now, informal) To name, to entitle, to call. [from the later 16th c.]
• hail (transitive) To call out loudly in order to gain the attention of.
• summon (transitive) To call people together; to convene; to convoke.
• summon (transitive) To ask someone to come; to send for.

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.

dub — full definition

1. verb To give something a name or nickname.
2. verb To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a translated or new one.
3. noun A remix of a song, especially in reggae, with vocals stripped out and effects added.

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