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kalla — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • call verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
  • origin noun The point where something begins or comes from.
  • reference noun A mention of, or connection to, something else.
  • root noun The underground part of a plant that anchors it and draws in water and nutrients.
  • source noun The place, person, or thing that something originates from.
  • spring noun The season between winter and summer, when plants begin to grow again.
  • well adv In a good, skillful, or satisfactory way.

Senses

kalla 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.
  • origin The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
  • reference (academic writing) A previously published written work thus indicated; a source.
  • root (figurative) The primary source; origin.
  • source The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
  • spring (astronomy) The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
  • well A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.

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.

origin — full definition

  1. noun The point where something begins or comes from.
  2. noun A person's ancestry or background.

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