What's the difference between call and convene?

Call


Definition:

  • (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.

Convene


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To come together; to meet; to unite.
  • (v. i.) To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.
  • (v. t.) To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke.
  • (v. t.) To summon judicially to meet or appear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The vast majority of members would rather have a quiet body, offering technical assistance here and there and convening an occasional summit.
  • (2) Israeli television reported that Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, was being briefed on the search and had convened an emergency security cabinet session with his senior defence chiefs at the defence ministry compound in Tel Aviv.
  • (3) The report of a panel convened by Save the Children and chaired by an independent expert from Public Health England says there is no conclusive evidence as to how Cafferkey was infected, but it points to the difference between her equipment and that of other volunteers.
  • (4) The World Health Organisation has convened an emergency committee to discuss the “explosive” spread of the Zika virus , with one of its scientists estimating there there could be 3m-4m Zika infections in the Americas over the next year.
  • (5) The conference was convened by the Prince of Wales, who has set up a working group to find ways of funding forest protection.
  • (6) A group convened by the WHO recommended full disclosure, but ordered an urgent review of the security and safety of labs where such viruses are stored.
  • (7) A verification of the epidemiological material, convened according to a common programme and the method of identification was made in separate districts of Ivanovo and the Andizhan Region.
  • (8) The two sides announced a renewed intention of convening a Geneva 2 conference to seek an overarching peace deal in Syria.
  • (9) The case, which highlighted the ultimate power of commanders as "convening authorities" to nullify a conviction by a military jury, became a focus of last month's Senate hearing on military sexual assault .
  • (10) I can therefore tell all members of this house that the cross-party charter will be on the agenda at a specially convened meeting of the privy council on 30 October.
  • (11) Addressing the World Economic Forum's 2006 panel, which was convened to consider global catastrophes, he gave this advice: "A great leader acts in awareness of the big picture and accepts responsibility for the long-term consequences of the policies he or she pursues.
  • (12) On 9 September, just two days after Stapel was suspended, the university convened an ad-hoc investigative committee of current and former faculty.
  • (13) Medical Research Council, Academy of Finland convened a Consensus Development Conference on Blood Cholesterol and Coronary Heart Disease on April 24-26, 1989.
  • (14) An interdisciplinary task force was convened to design and implement the transfer center, requiring two months from conception to implementation.
  • (15) And this week, at a summit of police and religious leaders convened by De Blasio and Cardinal Timothy Dolan, he drew a sharp contrast between the violent clashes between police and protesters in Ferguson with the peaceful protests that have marked Garner’s death.
  • (16) When the IPCC took over the investigation, a meeting was convened with the family and City of London police.
  • (17) His intervention came on the day that the 115th Congress convened, with Republicans in control of both chambers, hoping that the incoming president will prove willing to sign long-planned bills into law.
  • (18) The Biological Stain Commission-sponsored workshop was convened to address the following issues: a manufacturers' testing program for probity of commercial antibodies, development of a manual for performance criteria and quality control assurance procedures, standardization of package inserts, standardization of information provided in the Materials and Methods sections of publications, establishment of a reagent and procedure clearing house, study of the effects of different fixation regimes on tissue antigens, and investigation of the environmental conditions needed for antigen-antibody interaction.
  • (19) As the talks quickly broke down in Luxembourg, in Brussels, Donald Tusk, the president of the European council, promptly convened an emergency leaders’ summit on Monday evening, putting the onus on both Merkel and Tsipras as the two key leaders to bend towards concessions to clinch a deal.
  • (20) You know, there has been talk about "should we convene a conversation on race".