訪問 — meaning in English

English meaning

• call verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
• visit verb To go and see a person or place, usually briefly.

Senses

訪問 is used for these senses in English:

• call A short visit, usually for social purposes.
• call To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).
• visit A single act of visiting.
• visit (transitive) To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) [from 13th c.]

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.

visit — full definition

1. verb To go and see a person or place, usually briefly.
2. verb To go somewhere on official business, such as an inspection.
3. noun An occasion of going to see a person or place.

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