call

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /kɔːl/|[kʰoɫ]|/koːl/    美 /kɔl/|[kʰɔɫ]|/kɑl/|[kʰɑɫ]|/koːl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cry or shout. countable,uncountable
    — He heard a call from the other side of the room.
  2. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal. countable,uncountable
    — That sound is the distinctive call of the cuckoo bird.
  3. A beckoning or summoning. countable,uncountable
    — I had to yield to the call of the wild.
  4. A telephone conversation; a phone call. countable,uncountable
    — I received several phone calls today.
  5. An instance of calling someone on the telephone. countable,uncountable
    — I made a call to Jim, but he didn’t answer.
  6. A short visit, usually for social purposes. countable,uncountable
    — I paid a call to a dear friend of mine.
  7. A visit by a ship or boat to a port. countable,uncountable
    — The ship made a call at Southampton.
  8. A decision or judgement. countable,uncountable
    — That was a good call.
  9. The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor. countable,uncountable
    — The Prime Minister has the call.
  10. Ellipsis of call option. abbreviation,alt-of,countable,ellipsis,uncountable
  11. The act of calling to the other batsman. countable,uncountable
  12. The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.) countable,uncountable
  13. A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call. uncountable
    — page 48: “Mondays would be great, especially after a weekend of call.” page 56: “[…] I’ve got call tonight, and all weekend, but I’ll be off tomorrow to help you some.”
  14. The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point. countable,uncountable
  15. A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on. countable,uncountable
    — There was a 20 dollar bet on the table, and my call was 9.
  16. The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting. countable,uncountable
  17. A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt. countable,uncountable
  18. A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty. countable,uncountable
  19. A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call. countable,uncountable
  20. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor. countable,uncountable
  21. Vocation; employment; calling. archaic,countable,uncountable
  22. 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. US,countable,uncountable
  23. A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job. countable,informal,slang,uncountable
    — "They have a little network of women that watch out for each other," Morford said. That means that if one prostitute doesn't come back after going out on a call – whether it's an Internet prostitute or a streetwalker – and the other women can't get hold of her, they get scared, close up shop and won't work, Morford said.
  24. A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year. countable,uncountable
    — The work was done by two lawyers, one a 1983 call and the other a 2010 call.
  25. Need; necessity. countable,uncountable
    — There's no call for that kind of bad language!
动词 v.
  1. To reach out with one's voice.; To request, summon, or beckon. intransitive
    — That person is hurt; call for help!
  2. To reach out with one's voice.; To cry or shout. intransitive
    — "Supper's ready," called Dad from the kitchen.
  3. To reach out with one's voice.; To utter in a loud or distinct voice. transitive
    — to call the roll of a military company
  4. To reach out with one's voice.; To contact by telephone. ambitransitive
    — Why don’t you call me in the morning?
  5. To reach out with one's voice.; To rouse from sleep; to awaken. transitive
    — Take not away the Taper, leaue it burning: / And if thou canſt awake by foure o’th’clock, / I prythee call me: Sleepe hath ceiz’d me wholly.
  6. To reach out with one's voice.; To request that one's band play (a particular tune). transitive
    — They called I Got Rhythm, and turned to me again for a solo, and I said what?
  7. To reach out with one's voice.; To scold. Yorkshire,transitive
    — CALL 1 scold
  8. To visit.; To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again). intransitive
    — We could always call on a friend.
  9. To visit.; To stop at a station or port. intransitive
    — This train calls at Reading, Slough and London Paddington.
  10. To visit.; To come to pass; to afflict. intransitive
    — They say your love will surely fade, girl, / When things go wrong and trouble calls.
  11. To name, identify, or describe.; To name or refer to. ditransitive
    — Why don’t we dispense with the formalities? Please call me Al.
  12. To name, identify, or describe.; Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
    — I’m called John.
  13. To name, identify, or describe.; To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
    — They call the distance ten miles.
  14. To name, identify, or describe.; To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as. transitive
    — I call bullshit.
  15. To name, identify, or describe.; To disclose the class or character of; to identify. obsolete
    — This ſpeech calls him Spaniard, being nothing but / A large inventory of his own commendations.
  16. To declare, or declare in favor of, a predicted or actual result.; To declare in advance. transitive
    — The captains call the coin toss.
  17. To declare, or declare in favor of, a predicted or actual result.; To predict. transitive
    — He called twelve of the last three recessions.
  18. To declare, or declare in favor of, a predicted or actual result.; To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death. transitive
    — “Let’s call it. Time of death, 08:45.” The respiratory therapist stopped bagging. The doctor stopped CPR. There was no heartbeat on the monitor. Michael was dead.
  19. To declare, or declare in favor of, a predicted or actual result.; To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.
    — After the third massive failure, John called the whole initiative.
  20. To declare, or declare in favor of, a predicted or actual result.; To make a decision as a referee or umpire.
    — The goal was called offside.
  21. Direct or indirect use of the voice.; (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
  22. Direct or indirect use of the voice.; (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).
  23. Direct or indirect use of the voice.; To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.
    — Every shot must be called.
  24. Direct or indirect use of the voice.; To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting. intransitive
    — I bet $800 and Jane raised to $1600. My options: call (match her $1600 bet), reraise, or fold.
  25. Direct or indirect use of the voice.; 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.) intransitive,proscribed
    — I’ll call your 300, and raise to 600!
  26. Direct or indirect use of the voice.; To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on. transitive
    — My partner called two spades.
  27. To require, demand. sometimes,transitive
    — He felt called to help the old man.
  28. To cause to be verbally subjected to. transitive
    — Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
  29. To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs. colloquial,transitive
    — I call the comfy chair!
  30. To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium. transitive
  31. To demand repayment of a loan. transitive
  32. To jump to (another part of a program); to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion. transitive
    — A recursive function is one that calls itself.

词形变化

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词汇关系

下位词
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衍生词
becall butter my butt and call it a biscuit butter my butt and call me a biscuit callability callable call a cab call after call again call a go call a halt call ahead call a lid call an ambulance call an audible call and collect call around call a shovel a shovel call a spade a shovel call a spade a spade call a spade a spade and a shovel a shovel call away call back call balls and strikes call bullshit call by call-by-future call-by-name call-by-need call-by-reference call down called to straw callee call 'em as one sees 'em caller call for call forth call in calling calling bell calling-card calling card calling crab calling name calling station call in sick call in the wilderness call into doubt call into question call it call it a day call it an early night call it a night call it as one sees it call it even call it half a day call it quits call it square call it stumps call names call off call on call on the carpet call onto the carpet call out call out of one's name call out sick call over call roll call round call someone every name in the book call someone everything but a child of God call someone's bluff call someone's number call the ball call the fire brigade call the fire department call them as one sees them call the police call the question call the shots call the tune call time call to call to account call together call to mind call to order call to task call to the Bar call up call upon cat calling the kettle black cold calling cold-calling come calling cop-call desperate times call for desperate measures don't call us, we'll call you drop call duty calls effectual calling I'll call the police is that what the kids are calling it these days I've never heard it called that before miscall name-call name-calling now that's what I call photo call point and call pot calling the kettle black re-call recall slap my ass and call me Judy slap my ass and call me Sally smooth call that's what I call too close to call voice calling in the wilderness whatchacallit what-d'ye-call-'em what-d'ye-call-it who's calling will call withcall you call this call of duty check-call overcall aftercall alarm call altar call answer the call answer the call of nature ass call at call auction call beck and call bird call birdcall boatswain's call booty call broker's call bugle call butt call calendar call call and response call bird callboard call board call-board call bond callbook call box callbox callboy call button call by future call by name call by need call by reference call-by-value call center call centre call date call delay call drink call fire call for help call forwarding call girl callgirl call graph call history call house call leaf call letters call liquor call loan call mark call money call money rate call note call number call of nature call of the wild call option call originator callout call-out call point call premium call price call protection call rate call risk call rule call screening callset call sheet call-shy callsign call sign call site call slip call stack calltip call to action call to arms call to prayer call tree callup call-up call value call waiting call-with-current-continuation captain's call casting call catcall cat call cattle call chow call clarion call close call cold call collect call conference call contact call countercall courtesy call covered call crank call crying call curtain call distress call downcall drastic times call for drastic measures duck call firecall first call first port of call flat call foodie call forecall function call ghost call hang-up call hero call hog call house call house of call insta-call international call prefix Jody call judgement call last call mail call makeup call margin call mating call midcall missed call money call moosecall mosh call naked call no-call-no-show noncall nuisance call on call on-call open call party call phantom call phee-call phone call photocall pocket call port of call prank call procedure call put-call remote procedure call reverse 911 call robocall roll call safety call seet call self-call servants' call service call sick call siren call social call subroutine call system call tail call telecall telephone call the call is coming from inside the house toll call tough call trumpet call trunk call turkey call uncovered call upcall video call voice call wake-up call wakeup call watering call within call wolf call

词源

词源 1
From Middle English callen, from Old English ċeallian (“to call, shout”) and Old Norse kalla (“to call; shout; refer to as; name”); both from Proto-Germanic *kalzōną (“to call, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *golH-so- (“voice, cry”), from *gel(H)- (“to vocalize, call, shout”).
Cognates
* Scots call, caw, ca (“to call, cry, shout”)
* Dutch kallen (“to chat, talk”)
* German Low German kallen (“to speak, talk”)
* German kallen (“to call”)
* Swedish kalla (“to call, refer to, beckon”)
* Norwegian kalle (“to call, name”)
* Danish kalde (“to call, name”)
* Icelandic kalla (“to call, shout, name”)
* Welsh galw (“to call, demand”)
* Polish głos (“voice”)
* Lithuanian gal̃sas (“echo”)
* Russian голос (golos, “voice”)
* Albanian gjuhë (“language, tongue”).
词源 2
From Middle English callen, from Old English ċeallian (“to call, shout”) and Old Norse kalla (“to call; shout; refer to as; name”); both from Proto-Germanic *kalzōną (“to call, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *golH-so- (“voice, cry”), from *gel(H)- (“to vocalize, call, shout”).
Cognates
* Scots call, caw, ca (“to call, cry, shout”)
* Dutch kallen (“to chat, talk”)
* German Low German kallen (“to speak, talk”)
* German kallen (“to call”)
* Swedish kalla (“to call, refer to, beckon”)
* Norwegian kalle (“to call, name”)
* Danish kalde (“to call, name”)
* Icelandic kalla (“to call, shout, name”)
* Welsh galw (“to call, demand”)
* Polish głos (“voice”)
* Lithuanian gal̃sas (“echo”)
* Russian голос (golos, “voice”)
* Albanian gjuhë (“language, tongue”).
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