A Quick and Simple Dictionary

call

1. Noun.  A telephone conversation.
2. Noun.  A social visit.
3. Noun.  A cry or shout.
4. Noun.  A decision or judgement.
5. Noun.  The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
6. Noun.  A beckoning or summoning.
7. Noun.  (finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
8. Noun.  (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
9. Noun.  (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.).
10. Noun.  A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call). .
11. Noun.  (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the point.
12. Noun.  A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
13. Noun.  (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
14. Verb.  To request, summon, or beckon.
15. Verb.  To cry or shout.
16. Verb.  To contact by telephone.
17. Verb.  To pay a social visit.
18. Verb.  To name or refer to.
19. Verb.  (''reflexively'': '''to be called''') Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
20. Verb.  (cricket) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
21. Verb.  (baseball, cricket) (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions.).
22. Verb.  (poker) To match or equal the amount of poker chips in the pot as the player that bet.
23. Verb.  (''with an object preceded by the preposition'' for) To require, demand.
24. Verb.  To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
25. Verb.  (finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
26. Verb.  (banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
27. Verb.  (transitive) To predict.
28. Verb.  (transitive) To declare in advance.
29. Verb.  (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.