call

(Verb) To reach out with one's voice. To request, summon, or beckon.
• To request, summon, or beckon.
• To cry or shout.
• To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
• To contact by telephone.
• To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
• To request that one's band play (a particular tune).
• To scold.
• 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).
• To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).
• To stop at a station or port.
• To come to pass; to afflict.
• To name, identify, or describe. To name or refer to.
• To name or refer to.
• Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
• To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
• To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.
• To disclose the class or character of; to identify.
• To declare, or declare in favor of, a predicted or actual result. To declare in advance.
• To declare in advance.
• To predict.
• To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death.
• To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.
• To make a decision as a referee or umpire.
• 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. (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions). To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.
• (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
• (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).
• To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.
• To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.
• 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.)
• To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
• To require, demand.
• To cause to be verbally subjected to.
• To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
• To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
• To demand repayment of a loan.
• To jump to (another part of a program); to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.

(Noun) A cry or shout.
• The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
• A beckoning or summoning.
• A telephone conversation; a phone call.
• An instance of calling someone on the telephone.
• A short visit, usually for social purposes.
• A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
• A decision or judgement.
• The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
• Ellipsis of call option.
• 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, i.e. 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.
• A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
• A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.
• Need; necessity.