Usually means: Request someone to communicate verbally.
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We found 83 dictionaries that define the word call:

General (35 matching dictionaries)
  1. call: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. call: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. call: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. call: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Call, call: Vocabulary.com
  6. Call, call: Wordnik
  7. call: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. CALL, Call, call: Wiktionary
  9. call: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. call: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. call: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. call: Dictionary.com
  13. call (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. call: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Call: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. call: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. call: Rhymezone
  19. call: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. call: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. CALL, call: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Call, Call: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. call: Free Dictionary
  24. call: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Call, call: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. call: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  3. Beginners' Bridge Glossay (No longer online)

Business (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. call: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. call: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Call: bizterms.net
  8. Call: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  9. Call: Harvey Financial
  10. Call: eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary
  11. Call, Call, Call: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  12. call: Finance-Glossary.com
  13. Call: Investopedia
  14. Call (disambiguation), call: Legal dictionary
  15. Call (disambiguation), Call: Financial dictionary
  16. Call: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  17. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  18. Call: WashingtonPost.com: Business
  19. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)
  20. call: Webster's New World Law Dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. CALL, call: CCI Computer
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Call (disambiguation), call: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Call (disambiguation), call: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. CALL: Acronym Finder
  2. Call: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. call: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Call: Easton Bible

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. call, call, call: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. call (someone): English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Call, The Call: Urban Dictionary

Sports (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Call: Dan's Poker
  2. Call: Skydiving Glossary
  3. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Call: Gambling Glossary
  5. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Keno Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Call: Poker Terms

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. call: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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