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▸ verb:  To use one's voice.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To cry or shout.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
▸ verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To contact by telephone.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To declare in advance.
▸ verb:  To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
▸ verb:  To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.
▸ verb:  (transitive, jazz) To request that one's band play (a particular tune).
▸ verb:  (heading, intransitive) To visit.
▸ verb:  To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).
▸ verb:  To stop at a station or port.
▸ verb:  To come to pass; to afflict.
▸ verb:  To name, identify or describe.
▸ verb:  (ditransitive) To name or refer to.
▸ verb:  (in passive) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To predict.
▸ verb:  To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To disclose the class or character of; to identify.
▸ verb:  (heading, sports) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
▸ verb:  (cricket) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
▸ verb:  (baseball, cricket) (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).
▸ verb:  (intransitive, poker) To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, poker, proscribed) To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.)
▸ verb:  (transitive) To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
▸ verb:  (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
▸ verb:  (transitive, with into) To cause to be verbally subjected to.
▸ verb:  (transitive, colloquial) To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
▸ verb:  (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
▸ verb:  (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
▸ verb:  (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program); to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
▸ verb:  (Yorkshire) To scold.
▸ verb:  (sports) To make a decision as a referee or umpire.
▸ verb:  (cue sports) To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.
▸ noun:  A telephone conversation; a phone call.
▸ noun:  An instance of calling someone on the telephone.
▸ noun:  A short visit, usually for social purposes.
▸ noun:  (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
▸ noun:  A cry or shout.
▸ noun:  A decision or judgement.
▸ noun:  The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
▸ noun:  A beckoning or summoning.
▸ noun:  The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
▸ noun:  (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
▸ noun:  (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
▸ noun:  (uncountable) A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call.
▸ noun:  (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
▸ noun:  A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
▸ noun:  (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
▸ noun:  A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
▸ noun:  (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
▸ noun:  A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
▸ noun:  An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
▸ noun:  (archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.
▸ noun:  (US, law) 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.
▸ noun:  (informal, slang, prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
▸ noun:  (law) A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.
▸ noun:  (in negative constructions) Need; necessity.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  (finance) Short for call option. [(finance) An option to buy a stated quantity of an asset or financial product, such as stock, at a stated price (the strike price), on a stated future date (or range of dates).]
▸ noun:  Initialism of computer-assisted language learning.

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