chamar — 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.
• name noun A word or phrase used to identify a specific person, place, or thing.
• phone noun A device used to talk to someone over a distance, especially a mobile device that also runs apps.
• ring noun A small circular band, often worn on a finger as jewelry.

Senses

chamar is used for these senses in English:

• call (intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon.
• call To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
• call for To shout out in order to summon (a person).
• dub (transitive, now, informal) To name, to entitle, to call. [from the later 16th c.]
• phone (ambitransitive) To call (someone) using a telephone.
• ring (intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.

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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