calls

• abandons
• aborts
• abrogates
• accounts
• adjudications
• alerts
• amasses
• announces
• annuls
• anticipates
• asks
• assembles
• augurs
• awards
• baptizes
• barks
• bawls
• bays
• bear markets
• beckons
• beeps
• behests
• beliefs
• believes
• bellows
• bids
• birthrights
• blats
• bleats
• bodes
• brands
• brays
• breaks off
• bull markets
• buzzes
• cackles
• calculates
• callbacks
• callings
• calls for
• calls in
• calls off
• calls out
• calls up
• cancels
• caterwauls
• cautions
• caws
• charges
• cheeps
• chirps
• choices
• christens
• cites
• claims
• clepes
• clucks
• code-names
• cold calls
• cold-calls
• collects
• comes by
• comes over
• commandments
• commands
• conceives
• concludes
• conclusions
• conference calls
• conjectures
• consensuses
• considers
• convenes
• convictions
• convokes
• coos
• countermands
• counts
• crakes
• cries
• cries off
• croaks
• crows
• decisions
• declares
• decrees
• deduces
• deems
• deliverances
• demands
• denominates
• denotes
• designates
• determinations
• diagnoses
• dials
• dibs
• dictates
• directives
• directs
• discontinues
• dispositions
• divines
• dooms
• drop-ins
• drops
• drops by
• drops in
• dubs
• edicts
• ends
• entitles
• esteems
• estimates
• examinations
• explorations
• extrapolates
• eyes
• fancies
• favors
• feelings
• feels
• figures
• findings
• forbodes
• forebodes
• forecasts
• foreknows
• foresees
• foretells
• forewarns
• frequents
• gages
• gathers
• gauges
• get-togethers
• gives up
• groups
• grunts
• guesses
• hails
• halloos
• halts
• haunts
• heralds
• holds
• holds back
• hollers
• hollos
• honks
• hoots
• howls
• imagines
• infers
• inquests
• inquiries
• inquisitions
• instructions
• interrogations
• interrogatories
• interrupts
• invalidates
• investigations
• invites
• invokes
• judgements
• judges
• judgments
• knells
• labels
• last words
• looks up
• lows
• makes
• mandates
• markets
• meetings
• meows
• messages
• mews
• miaows
• minds
• miscalls
• misnames
• mistitles
• moos
• musters
• names
• neighs
• nicknames
• nominates
• notes
• notions
• nullifies
• oinks
• opinions
• options
• ordains
• orders
• pages
• peeps
• persuasions
• petitions
• phones
• places
• polls
• portends
• predicts
• prerogatives
• presages
• pretences
• pretenses
• pretensions
• privileges
• probes
• probings
• proclaims
• prognosticates
• promises
• prophesies
• puts
• quacks
• queries
• questionings
• questionnaires
• questions
• rallies
• rates
• reads
• reasons
• reassembles
• recalls
• recants
• rechristens
• reckons
• reconvenes
• refusals
• regards
• relabels
• relinquishes
• renames
• rendezvous
• repeals
• requests
• requires
• requisitions
• rescinds
• researches
• resolutions
• retracts
• reverses
• revokes
• rights
• rings
• roars
• rolls back
• rounds up
• rulings
• runs in
• say-sos
• scraps
• screams
• screeches
• scrubs
• sees
• selections
• sends for
• senses
• sentences
• sentiments
• sets down
• shouts
• shrieks
• shrills
• sings
• sounds off
• speaks out
• speaks up
• specifies
• squalls
• squawks
• squeaks
• squeals
• steps in
• stigmatizes
• stopovers
• stops
• studies
• styles
• subpoenas
• summons
• supposes
• surnames
• surrenders
• surveys
• suspends
• tags
• takes back
• takes for
• telephones
• terminates
• terms
• thinks
• thunders
• titles
• toll calls
• trumpets
• trysts
• tu-whit tu-whoos
• twitters
• ululates
• understands
• vaticinates
• verdicts
• views
• visitations
• visits
• vociferates
• voice mails
• voids
• wails
• warns
• whinnies
• whistles
• whoops
• withdraws
• words
• writes off
• yaps
• yaups
• yawps
• yells
• yelps
• yips
• yowls

• answers
• banishes
• begins
• breaks up
• breathes
• calibrates
• cancels
• casts out
• commences
• computes
• continues
• countermands
• deadlocks
• describes
• disclaimers
• dismisses
• dissolves
• draws
• ejects
• engages
• expels
• halts
• initiates
• keeps
• kicks out
• measures
• mumbles
• murmurs
• mutters
• narrates
• ousts
• outs
• pledges
• promises
• quitclaims
• recites
• recounts
• relates
• releases
• replies
• reports
• rescinds
• responses
• routs
• runs off
• scales
• stalemates
• standoffs
• starts
• takes on
• takes up
• tells
• throws out
• ties
• turns away
• undertakes
• waivers
• whispers
• works out

• noun
  1. A telephone conversation.
  2. A short visit, usually for social purposes.
  3. A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
  4. A cry or shout.
  5. A decision or judgement.
  6. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
  7. A beckoning or summoning.
  8. The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
  9. An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
  10. The act of calling to the other batsman.
  11. The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.).
  12. A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).
  13. The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
  14. A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
  15. The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
  16. A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
  17. A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
  18. A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
  19. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
  20. Vocation; employment; calling.
  21. 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.
  22. (prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
• verb
  1. (heading) To use one's voice.
  2. (heading) To visit.
  3. (heading) To name, identify or describe.
  4. (heading) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
  5. (sometimes with for) To require, demand.
  6. To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
  7. To demand repayment of a loan.
  8. To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.

• She calls her grandmother every Sunday to catch up.
• The referee calls a foul on the opposing team.
• The teacher calls the students' names during roll call.
• The bird calls echoed through the forest at dawn.
• The doctor calls to remind patients of their upcoming appointments.

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