call

Definitions

• A telephone conversation.
• A short visit, usually for social purposes.
• (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
• A cry or shout.
• A decision or judgement.
• The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
• A beckoning or summoning.
• The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
• (finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
• (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
• (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
• A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).
• (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
• A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
• (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
• A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
• (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
• A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
• An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
• (archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.
• (US) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
• (informal) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.