slovo | definícia |
call on (mass) | call on
- vzývať |
call on (encz) | call on,nazývat v: Pavel Cvrček |
call on (encz) | call on,stavit se v: např.: na návštevě u někoho Jiří Dadák |
call on (encz) | call on,vyzvat v: Zdeněk Brož |
call on (wn) | call on
v 1: have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or
information to; "She called on her Representative to help
her"; "She turned to her relatives for help" [syn: {call
on}, turn] |
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To call on (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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call on the carpet (wn) | call on the carpet
v 1: censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child
for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the
Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for
bringing cold soup" [syn: call on the carpet, {take to
task}, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture,
reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold,
chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out,
chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast] |
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