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call for
(mass) | call for
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call for
(encz) | call for,požadovat v: Zdeněk Brož |
call for
(encz) | call for,volat o Pavel Cvrček |
call for
(encz) | call for,vyzvednout [fráz.] someone - někoho, doma ap., např. "I'll call
for you after dinner" Pino |
call for
(encz) | call for,vyžadovat v: Zdeněk Brož |
call for
(wn) | call for
v 1: express the need or desire for; ask for; "She requested an
extra bed in her room"; "She called for room service" [syn:
request, bespeak, call for, quest]
2: require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do
what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This
job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands
a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a
spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a
patient's consent" [syn: necessitate, ask, postulate,
need, require, take, involve, call for, demand]
[ant: eliminate, obviate, rid of]
3: request the participation or presence of; "The organizers
invite submissions of papers for the conference" [syn:
invite, call for]
4: gather or collect; "You can get the results on Monday"; "She
picked up the children at the day care center"; "They pick up
our trash twice a week" [syn: collect, pick up, {gather
up}, call for] |
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call for discussion
(czen) | Call For Discussion,CFD[zkr.] |
To call for
(gcide) | Call \Call\, v. i.
1. To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; --
sometimes with to.
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You must call to the nurse. --Shak.
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The angel of God called to Hagar. --Gen. xxi.
17.
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2. To make a demand, requirement, or request.
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They called for rooms, and he showed them one.
--Bunyan.
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3. To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place
designated, as for orders.
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He ordered her to call at the house once a week.
--Temple.
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To call for
(a) To demand; to require; as, a crime calls for
punishment; a survey, grant, or deed calls for the
metes and bounds, or the quantity of land, etc., which
it describes.
(b) To give an order for; to request. "Whenever the coach
stopped, the sailor called for more ale." --Marryat.
To call on, To call upon,
(a) To make a short visit to; as, call on a friend.
(b) To appeal to; to invite; to request earnestly; as, to
call upon a person to make a speech.
(c) To solicit payment, or make a demand, of a debt.
(d) To invoke or play to; to worship; as, to call upon
God.
To call out To call or utter loudly; to brawl.
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To call forth
(gcide) | Call \Call\ (k[add]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Called (k[add]ld);
p. pr. & vb. n. Calling] [OE. callen, AS. ceallian; akin to
Icel. & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen to talk, prate, OHG.
kall[=o]n to call; cf. Gr. ghry`ein to speak, sing, Skr. gar
to praise. Cf. Garrulous.]
1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon;
as, to call a servant.
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Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain --Shak.
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2. To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to
designate for an office, or employment, especially of a
religious character; -- often used of a divine summons;
as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite;
as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church.
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Paul . . . called to be an apostle --Rom. i. 1.
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The Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul
for the work whereunto I have called them. --Acts
xiii. 2.
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3. To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with
together; as, the President called Congress together; to
appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of
Aldermen.
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Now call we our high court of Parliament. --Shak.
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4. To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a
specifed name.
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If you would but call me Rosalind. --Shak.
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And God called the light Day, and the darkness he
called Night. --Gen. i. 5.
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5. To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to
denominate; to designate.
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What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
--Acts x. 15.
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6. To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to
characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call
the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work.
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[The] army is called seven hundred thousand men.
--Brougham.
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7. To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality
of. [Obs.]
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This speech calls him Spaniard. --Beau. & Fl.
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8. To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off;
as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call
the roll of a military company.
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No parish clerk who calls the psalm so clear. --Gay.
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9. To invoke; to appeal to.
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I call God for a witness. --2 Cor. i. 23
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10. To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
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If thou canst awake by four o' the clock.
I prithee call me. Sleep hath seized me wholly.
--Shak.
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To call a bond, to give notice that the amount of the bond
will be paid.
To call a party (Law), to cry aloud his name in open court,
and command him to come in and perform some duty requiring
his presence at the time on pain of what may befall him.
To call back, to revoke or retract; to recall; to summon
back.
To call down, to pray for, as blessing or curses.
To call forth, to bring or summon to action; as, to call
forth all the faculties of the mind.
To call in,
(a) To collect; as, to call in debts or money; ar to
withdraw from cirulation; as, to call in uncurrent
coin.
(b) To summon to one's side; to invite to come together;
as, to call in neighbors.
To call (any one) names, to apply contemptuous names (to
any one).
To call off, to summon away; to divert; as, to call off the
attention; to call off workmen from their employment.
To call out.
(a) To summon to fight; to challenge.
(b) To summon into service; as, to call out the militia.
To call over, to recite separate particulars in order, as a
roll of names.
To call to account, to demand explanation of.
To call to mind, to recollect; to revive in memory.
To call to order, to request to come to order; as:
(a) A public meeting, when opening it for business.
(b) A person, when he is transgressing the rules of
debate.
To call to the bar, to admit to practice in courts of law.
To call up.
(a) To bring into view or recollection; as to call up the
image of deceased friend.
(b) To bring into action or discussion; to demand the
consideration of; as, to call up a bill before a
legislative body.
Syn: To name; denominate; invite; bid; summon; convoke;
assemble; collect; exhort; warn; proclaim; invoke;
appeal to; designate.
Usage: To Call, Convoke, Summon. Call is the generic
term; as, to call a public meeting. To convoke is to
require the assembling of some organized body of men
by an act of authority; as, the king convoked
Parliament. To summon is to require attendance by an
act more or less stringent anthority; as, to summon a
witness.
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call forth
(wn) | call forth
v 1: evoke or provoke to appear or occur; "Her behavior provoked
a quarrel between the couple" [syn: provoke, evoke,
call forth, kick up]
2: summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by
magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild
birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"
[syn: raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke,
stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward,
call forth] |
call forwarding
(wn) | call forwarding
n 1: lets you transfer your incoming calls to any telephone that
you can dial direct |
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