Definizione monolingua

call

call (third-person singular simple present calls, present participle calling, simple past and past participle called)

1. To request, summon, or beckon.

   That person is hurt, call for help!

2. To cry or shout.

   I cant see you. Call out to me so I can find you.

3. To contact by telephone.

   Why dont you call me in the morning.

4. To pay a social visit.

   We could always call on a friend.

5. To name or refer to.

   Why dont we dispense with the formalities. Please call me Al.

6. (reflexively: to be called) Of a person, to have as ones name; of a thing, to have as its name.

   Im called John.

   A very tall building is called a skyscraper.

7. (cricket) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
8. (baseball, cricket) (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions.)
9. (poker) To match or equal the amount of poker chips in the pot as the player that bet.
10. (with an object preceded by the preposition for) To require, demand.

    This job calls for patience.

11. To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.

    My partner called 2 spades.

12. (finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
13. (banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
14. (transitive) To predict.

    He called twelve of the last three recessions.

15. (transitive) To declare in advance.

    The captains call the coin toss.

16. (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.

call (plural calls)

1. A telephone conversation.

   I received several phone calls today.

   I received several calls today.

2. A social visit.

   I paid a call to a dear friend of mine.

3. A cry or shout.

   He heard a call from the other side of the room.

4. A decision or judgement.

   That was a good call.

5. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.

   That sound is the distinctive call of the cuckoo bird.

6. A beckoning or summoning.

   I had to yield to the call of the wild.

7. (finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
8. (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
9. (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
10. A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).
    • 1978, Alan E. Nourse, The Practice,^[1] Harper & Row, ISBN 9780060131944:

      page 48: “Mondays would be great, especially after a weekend of call.”

      page 56: “ […] I’ve got call tonight, and all weekend, but I’ll be off tomorrow to help you some.”

    • 2007, William D. Bailey, You Will Never Run Out of Jesus, CrossHouse Publishing, ISBN 978-0-929292-24-3:

      page 29: I took general-surgery call at Bossier Medical Center and asked special permission to take general-medical call, which was gladly given away by the older staff members: […] . You would be surprised at how many surgical cases came out of medical call.

      page 206: My first night of primary medical call was greeted about midnight with a very ill 30-year-old lady who had a temperature of 103 degrees.

    • 2008, Jamal M. Bullocks et al., Plastic Surgery Emergencies: Principles and Techniques, Thieme, ISBN 978-1-58890-670-0, page ix:

      We attempted to include all topics that we ourselves have faced while taking plastic surgery call at the affiliated hospitals in the Texas Medical Center, one of the largest medical centers in the world, which sees over 100,000 patients per day.

    • 2009, Steven Louis Shelley, A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting, page 171:

      The columns in the second rectangle show fewer hours, but part of that is due to the fact that theres a division between a work call and a show call.

11. (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the point.
12. A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.

    There was a 20 dollar bet on the table, and my call was 9.

13. (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.

Definizione dizionario call

	chiamare
	to cry or shout
	to request, summon, or beckon
	to contact by telephone
	To transfer program execution to some section of code (usually a subroutine) while saving the necessary information to allow execution to resume at the calling point when the called section has completed execution. When a subroutine call occurs, one or more values (known as arguments or parameters) are often passed to the subroutine, which can then use and sometimes modify these values.

	chiamata
	telephone conversation
	beckoning or summoning
	To transfer program execution to some section of code (usually a subroutine) while saving the necessary information to allow execution to resume at the calling point when the called section has completed execution. When a subroutine call occurs, one or more values (known as arguments or parameters) are often passed to the subroutine, which can then use and sometimes modify these values.

	gridare
	to cry or shout

	richiamo
	characteristic cry of a bird or other animal
	beckoning or summoning

	telefonare
	Contattare qualcuno servendosi del telefono.
	To contact someone using the telephone.

	telefonata
	telephone conversation
	Una conversazione effettuata tramite una connessione che sfrutta la rete telefonica.
	A conversation by a connection over a telephone network.

	canto
	characteristic cry of a bird or other animal

	saluto
	social visit

	turno
	(medicine): overnight duty in the hospital

	urlo
	cry or shout

	visita
	social visit

appello

	convocazione
	beckoning or summoning

	coprire
	to match or equal the amount of poker chips in the pot as the player that bet

	grido
	cry or shout

	indire
	Rendere noto per mezzo di una comunicazione pubblica.

	predire
	To state, or make something known in advance, especially using inference or special knowledge.

	visitare
	to pay a social visit

annunciare

chiamarsi

citare

convocare

denominare

designare

dichiarare

fama

grido ou

intitolare

invitare

invito

invocare

invocazione

latrare

nominare

richiamare

ruggire

svegliare

telefono

verso

vocazione

vociare

Altri significati:

to be called

(finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.

(computing): the act of jumping to a subprogram

A beckoning or summoning.

call (for)

(reflexively: to be called) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.

call (e.g. phone)

A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.

To cry or shout.

To pay a social visit.

The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.

A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).

To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.

A social visit.

To name or refer to.

send (a fax)

(banking) To demand repayment of a loan.

To contact by telephone.

(transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.

call (to mind)

(cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.

(transitive) To declare in advance.

(to) call

to name or refer to

call (i.e. to give a name)

call out (to)

A cry or shout.

(transitive) To predict.

To request, summon, or beckon.

A decision or judgement.

(with an object preceded by the preposition for) To require, demand.

(finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.

A telephone conversation.

(computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the point.

To select a number on a telephone.

(poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.

(baseball, cricket) (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions.)

(cricket) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.

(poker) To match or equal the amount of poker chips in the pot as the player that bet.

(cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)