(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.
Carl
Definition:
(n.) A rude, rustic man; a churl.
(n.) Large stalks of hemp which bear the seed; -- called also carl hemp.
(n.) A kind of food. See citation, below.
Example Sentences:
(1) Initial proceedings in Carl Pistorius' trial had focused on a request by South Africa's national broadcaster, SABC, to show the trial proceedings live on national television or record them for later use.
(2) Thus early neurosurgical operations were performed by Carl Daniel von Haartman in Finland and by Christopher Withusen and Gundelach Møller in Denmark.
(3) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
(4) This surgical procedure was made by microsurgery using a Carl Zeica amplification optic lens 2,3 X and a OFMI microscope with an amplification lens 40 X.
(5) Foggy feast Well done Carl Fogarty, the most successful world superbike racing champion ever, now known to a new generation as the winner of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here .
(6) The present study reports the age specific prevalence rate of tumors in autopsies of the years 1958--1969, registered in the Medical Academy "Carl Gustav Carus" Dresden.
(7) The groundwork for spa facilities intended for the treatment of children was performed by Dr. Carl von Mettenheimer in Schwerin with the foundation of a "Verein für die Errichtung von Kinderheilstätten an deutschen Seeküsten" ("Association for the Establishment of Pediatric Sanatoria on German Coasts").
(8) Roberts, who has also streaked at the Super Bowl and Royal Ascot, scored in the Liverpool v Chelsea Carling Cup game at Anfield in 2000 and the 2002 Champions League final, between Real Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Animal collector Carl Hagenbeck with his sons and a Bengal tiger, 1907.
(10) Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who chairs the Senate armed services committee, told the Detroit News on Monday that he was not sure air strikes "make sense," saying that "we ought to be mighty damn cautious" before launching them.
(11) His killing was condemned by the United Nations, the British ambassador and many prominent Swedes, including the former prime minister Carl Bildt.
(12) When Rory McIlroy is hitting hole-in-ones and Carl Frampton is swinging knock-out punches, we cheer together.
(13) The Medical Academy in Dresden bears his name "Carl Gustav Carus" since its foundation.
(14) The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Friends (£2.99) The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Friends is a reworking of Eric Carle’s classic book and illustrations, in the form of a digital “pop-up app” modelled after printed pop-up books.
(15) If we’d had a qualifier, we would have said: ‘Look, we need you for this,’ but we have Carl Jenkinson who can play there.
(16) In a press conference, senators Carl Levin and Jeff Merkley said they drew up the so-called Volcker rule in order to curtail bets like the one made by JP Morgan .
(17) The room held 52' Carl Hutchinson My childhood hero was World Wrestling Entertainment's Mick Foley .
(18) He took them to the Carling Cup final, to a play-off place and just lost out and the following season took them to the championship and promotion.
(19) "I think this could be a good thing for Spain in a strange way as it will make them realise that some players will need to go before the next World Cup (Arbeloa, Torres etc) and maybe blood some of the younger ones (take your pick from the under 21s)," writes Carl Finch.
(20) That day, the European Union’s special envoy, Carl Bildt, met Mladic and Miloševic while the killing machine was at full throttle, though he seems not to have mentioned the massacre.