Calls

Word CALLS
Character 5
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /kɑlz/

Definitions and meanings of "Calls"

What do we mean by calls?

A telephone conversation.

A short visit, usually for social purposes.

A visit by a ship or boat to a port.

A cry or shout.

A decision or judgement.

The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.

A beckoning or summoning.

The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.

An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.

The act of calling to the other batsman.

The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)

A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).

The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.

A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.

The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.

A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.

A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.

A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.

An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.

Vocation; employment; calling.

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.

(prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.

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The word "calls" in example sentences

Exemptions would apply for certain prerecorded health-care-related calls, professional charity fund-raisers, and information-only calls  (i.e.: Your cable installer is running five hours late.) ❋ Unknown (2008)

He's taken a position on the _Boston Beacon_ and calls, actually _calls_, on his wife evenings or takes her and me out to theatres and dinners. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

It has now dismissed me with a month's notice for what it calls -- what it _calls_, Canon Ronder -- ❋ Hugh Walpole (1912)

” Then the critic calls attention to the demands which the short-story makes on the writer if he is really to achieve a masterpiece in this form; and he asserts that the short-story at its best “calls for visual imagination of a high order: the power to see the object; to penetrate to the essential nature; to select the one characteristic trait by which it may be represented. ❋ Unknown (1907)

Designer Tracy Reese has an employee dedicated to creating exclusives, or, as the label calls them, "specials." ❋ Elizabeth Holmes (2011)

In Romaine Brooks's stylishly mannish self-portrait, painted in 1923; in Berenice Abbott's 1927 photograph of the writer Janet Flanner wearing a white top hat appended with two masks, one white and one black; and in Abbott's photograph, also from 1927, of a relatively demure Betty Parsons, future art dealer of the Abstract Expressionists, we see vivid portrayals of what a label calls the "elite expatriate lesbian society" that flourished in Paris between the wars. ❋ By ROBERTA SMITH (2011)

Ah, but Venkatesh in his title calls himsel a "rogue" sociologist, which I guess is sort of like being a tenured "radical" -- it gives you some leeway, no? ❋ Tenured Radical (2009)

The band of the title calls itself the Alexandria Police Ceremonial Orchestra and consists of eight Egyptian policemen of various ages, all of them dressed in snazzy powder-blue uniforms. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Coffee has antioxidants in it, and if it's organic (and fair trade, of course) like this delightful "PBS" Mexican coffee from Green Mountain (the label calls it "sweetly balanced and smooth," and indeed it's a great, complicated brew for people who enjoy medium roasts--although I'm more of a dark roast girl). ❋ GreenFertility (2007)

The title calls to him with that familiar term from long ago. ❋ Darnell Arnoult (2006)

On the website of Red Antenna Records, a distinction is made between commercial recordings and what the label calls “online objects,” or sets of free MP3 downloads. ❋ Unknown (2004)

If the label calls for hand washing, you should oblige. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The musical style is electronic with electric guitars, piano and Swedish vocals resulting in what the label calls ❋ Unknown (2010)

Take the bust Further Pressure from Cannibals (all work 2010): Its subject's gender is not readily discernible, and the title calls attention ironically to the way we as viewers consume the body. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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