(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.
Premium
Definition:
(n.) A reward or recompense; a prize to be won by being before another, or others, in a competition; reward or prize to be adjudged; a bounty; as, a premium for good behavior or scholarship, for discoveries, etc.
(n.) Something offered or given for the loan of money; bonus; -- sometimes synonymous with interest, but generally signifying a sum in addition to the capital.
(n.) A sum of money paid to underwriters for insurance, or for undertaking to indemnify for losses of any kind.
(n.) A sum in advance of, or in addition to, the nominal or par value of anything; as, gold was at a premium; he sold his stock at a premium.
Example Sentences:
(1) He added: "Jobs and innovation and skills are really at a premium and are so needed, particularly in a place like the UK."
(2) Increasing food inflation means families within this group have to pay a £280 cost of living "premium" as they spend a greater share of their budget on essentials (which have risen faster than other goods) compared with higher-income households.
(3) It is likely most simply cannot afford full unsubsidized premiums.” Similarly, an analysis by the Urban Institute predicts that many of those who will lose their subsidies won’t be able to afford it without them and will cancel their insurance as a result.
(4) Rupert Murdoch has a battle on his hands to win over leading shareholders in BSkyB, who scent the opportunity for a high-stakes game of brinkmanship and are pushing for a premium price of well over £10bn for full control of the pay-television company.
(5) They are also concerned that house insurance premiums may increase substantially," she said.
(6) Houlihan said there was no sign that the "premium sports rights bubble" was about to burst: "Premium live sport delivers large audiences, typically characterised by an attractive demographic profile.
(7) • You can make a quick search for outstanding NS&I premium bond prizes online using the prize checker .
(8) Patients were randomized to have their skin closed with either continuous subcuticular non-absorbable polypropylene 'prolene' suture (33 patients) or metal skin staples (Autosuture 'Premium' or Davis and Geck 'Oppose'; 33 patients).
(9) The national obsession with smartphones and tablets appears to be firing demand for EE's faster service, despite its premium price.
(10) Debenhams said it also trailed behind its rivals in terms of convenience because it lacked a competitive range of premium delivery options.
(11) The company, which claims to have more than 24 million users, a quarter of whom pay for its premium ad-free service, has a $200m credit line from lenders including Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs, any of which could take the lead role in a flotation and earn millions in fees.
(12) The company’s success reflects affluent shoppers’ willingness to pay extra for products perceived to be of high quality, made with premium ingredients.
(13) This is in contrast to regular monthly premium payments which incur no further cost to the consumer if cancelled.
(14) In early February , about 70% of those who signed up for Aetna health plans through Obamacare went on to pay their premiums.
(15) The aim would be to raise insurance premiums and other shipping costs, and so boost oil prices as a way of inflicting pain on the west and replacing revenues lost through the embargo.
(16) Total costs (premium and out-of-pocket) for enrollees are 10 to 40 per cent lower than those for comparable people with health insurance.
(17) Almost 15,000 adopted children, many of them teenagers, will miss out on a £1,900 "pupil premium" for publicly funded schools in England, to provide extra help for them, according to the support group Adoption UK .
(18) A number of companies, including B&Q, Tesco and Morrisons have raised basic pay only to cut perks and premium payments for weekend, holiday or late working.
(19) I think that’s why 70% of the public now supports public ownership … the passengers pay a premium for privatisation.” For Cash, the short changing of passengers to benefit a few shareholders is symptomatic of the current regime – austerity for the many and prosperity for the few.
(20) However, even if you prefer Marmite to marmalade on your toast, citrus peel is a powerful tool in the kitchen, especially at this time of year, when bright, fresh flavours are at a premium.