convocar — meaning in English

English meaning

• call verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
• convene verb To come together, or to call people together, for a meeting.
• convoke verb To convene, to cause to assemble for a meeting.
• subpoena noun A legal order requiring someone to appear in court or produce evidence, under threat of punishment for ignoring it.
• summon verb To officially call people to come together or appear somewhere.

Senses

convocar is used for these senses in English:

• call (intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon.
• call To come to pass; to afflict.
• call out (transitive, idiomatic) To order into service; to summon into service.
• convene (transitive) To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke; to summon.
• convoke (transitive) To convene, to cause to assemble for a meeting.
• subpoena (law) To summon (someone) with a subpoena (noun sense 1) to appear in court, or at a deposition or some other legal proceeding, as a witness to give testimony or to produce evidence; to serve a subpoena on (someone).
• summon (transitive) To call people together; to convene; to convoke.

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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