(v. t.) To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.
(v. t.) To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious character; -- often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church.
(v. t.) To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with together; as, the President called Congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen.
(v. t.) To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name.
(v. t.) To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate.
(v. t.) To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work.
(v. t.) To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of.
(v. t.) To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off; as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a military company.
(v. t.) To invoke; to appeal to.
(v. t.) To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
(v. i.) To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; -- sometimes with to.
(v. i.) To make a demand, requirement, or request.
(v. i.) To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders.
(n.) The act of calling; -- usually with the voice, but often otherwise, as by signs, the sound of some instrument, or by writing; a summons; an entreaty; an invitation; as, a call for help; the bugle's call.
(n.) A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty.
(n.) An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
(n.) A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case; a moral requirement or appeal.
(n.) A divine vocation or summons.
(n.) Vocation; employment.
(n.) A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders.
(n.) A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds.
(n.) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty.
(n.) The cry of a bird; also a noise or cry in imitation of a bird; or a pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on.
(n.) See Assessment, 4.
Example Sentences:
(1) The femoral component, made of Tivanium with titanium mesh attached to it by a new process called diffusion bonding, retains superalloy fatigue strength characteristics.
(2) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(3) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
(4) Then a handful of organisers took a major bet on the power of people – calling for the largest climate change mobilisation in history to kick-start political momentum.
(5) The result has been called the biggest human upheaval since the Second World War.
(6) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
(7) But earlier this year the Unesco world heritage committee called for the cancellation of all such Virunga oil permits and appealed to two concession holders, Total and Soco International, not to undertake exploration in world heritage sites.
(8) 2.39pm BST The European Union called for a "thorough and immediate" investigation of the alleged chemical attack.
(9) David Cameron has insisted that membership of the European Union is in Britain's national interest and vital for "millions of jobs and millions of families", as he urged his own backbenchers not to back calls for a referendum on the UK's relationship with Brussels.
(10) Another important factor, however, seems to be that patients, their families, doctors and employers estimate capacity of performance on account of the specific illness, thus calling for intensified efforts toward rehabilitation.
(11) The so-called literati aren't insular – this from a woman who ran the security service – but we aren't going to apologise for what we believe in either.
(12) Breast temperatures have been measured by the automated instrumentation called the 'Chronobra' for 16 progesterone cycles in women at normal risk for breast cancer and for 15 cycles in women at high risk for breast cancer.
(13) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
(14) In 60 rhesus monkeys with experimental renovascular malignant arterial hypertension (25 one-kidney and 35 two-kidney model animals), we studied the so-called 'hard exudates' or white retinal deposits in detail (by ophthalmoscopy, and stereoscopic color fundus photography and fluorescein fundus angiography, on long-term follow-up).
(15) On his blog, Grillo called the referendum results a victory for democracy.
(16) We assumed that the sensory messages received at a given level are transformed by a stochastic process, called Alopex, in a way which maximizes responses in central feature analyzers.
(17) Glucocorticoids have been shown in in vitro systems to inhibit the release of arachidonic acid metabolites, namely prostaglandins (PGs) and leukotrienes, apparently, via the induction of a phospholipase A2 inhibitory protein, called lipocortin.
(18) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
(19) Following mass disasters and individual deaths, dentists with special training and experience in forensic odontology are frequently called upon to assist in the identification of badly mutilated or decomposed bodies.
(20) Brewdog backs down over Lone Wolf pub trademark dispute Read more The fast-growing Scottish brewer, which has burnished its underdog credentials with vocal criticism of how major brewers operate , recently launched a vodka brand called Lone Wolf.
Calla
Definition:
(n.) A genus of plants, of the order Araceae.
Example Sentences:
(1) Initial analysis of aspirated bone marrow disclosed ALL FAB-L1 morphology, common (Ia+, cALLa+) immunophenotype and a complex abnormal karyotype.
(2) We therefore think that the detailed examination of CALLA(-) non-T non-B ALL cells using myeloid specific antibodies is helpful in clarifying the characteristics of myeloid precursors and the common bipotential stem cell of lymphoid and myeloid progenitors.
(3) Cytospin preparations of pleural fluid documented high-grade lymphoblastic lymphoma morphology and immature T cell (cortical thymocyte) phenotype: Leu 1-6-positive, Leu 9-positive, Tdt-positive, B-negative, Calla-positive.
(4) This group was transplanted for CALLA positive ALL and received an autologous transplant.
(5) In the blast phase, blast cells showed early B-cell phenotype (CALLA+, Ia+, TdT+) with a rearranged immunoglobulin heavy-chain gene joining region (JH).
(6) Four different monoclonal antibodies to the CALLA antigen all stain the membrane of adult human myoepithelial cells.
(7) On the contrary, B-cell markers BA-2 (CD9) and BA-1 (CD24) cross-reacted with the NB cells just as well as the marker for NK-cells (CD57), but they did not express reactivity with Leu-11b (CD16), anti-CALLA (CD10) and anti-HLA-DR.
(8) All three patients whose blast cells showed variations in gene rearrangement patterns between diagnosis and relapase also demonstrated a change in the immunophenotype: one from cALLA+ to cALLA- B precursor cell ALL; one from T-ALL to AML; and one showed a marked increase in myeloid characteristics at relapse.
(9) Two murine monoclonal antibodies, FMC-8 and WM-21, reactive with the human leucocyte differentiation antigens CD-9 (p-24) and CD-10 (CALLA), respectively, have been used for purging leukemic cells from remission bone marrow.
(10) New anti-CALLA(IF-3 through IF-7) were effectively selected by immunostaining on kidney sections.
(11) These heterodimers consisted of a (mAb) to CD2 (anti-T11(2) or anti-T11(3] linked to a mAb recognizing the tumor cell (J5, anti-CALLA).
(12) The percentages of B-cells, cALLA-positive, and PNA-positive lymphocytes do not change significantly after they reach their maximum values and are still high at 18 months.
(13) At diagnosis, blast cells were morphologically L2 and phenotypically B-cell precursors, as shown by common ALL antigen (CALLA), B1, B4 and HLA-DR positivity.
(14) The subsequent immunotyping revealed the expression of CALLA (common acute lymphoblastic leukaemia antigen) on these cells but there was no other sign for malignancy.
(15) The association with clinical and laboratory features of known adverse prognostic significance provides some explanation for the poor treatment outcome of CALLA- ALL.
(16) Both the J5 and BA-3 monoclonal antibodies are considered to be specific for epitopes on the common acute lymphoblastic leukemia antigen (CALLA).
(17) The common acute lymphoblastic leukemia antigen (CALLA) is a 749-amino acid type II integral membrane protein expressed by most acute lymphoblastic leukemias, certain other lymphoid malignancies with an immature phenotype, and normal lymphoid progenitors.
(18) We used 3 human melanoma cell lines (GLL-19, Mel Juso and G361) which lack receptors to alpha-MSH and express CALLA, and, as a control, one CALLA-negative melanoma cell line (HBL) with specific receptors for alpha-MSH.
(19) All cases showed expression of the B lineage markers T015, B1, and 4G7, and HLA-DR. CALLA was present in all but 1 case, similar to that reported for follicular lymphomas, and much higher than reported for diffuse large cell lymphoma.
(20) The leukemic cells expressed non-T, non-B cell marker profiles (CALLA+, J5+, Leu-1-, Leu-4-, Ia+, B1-, c-Ig mu- and TdT+).