Called: Definition and part of speech

Called

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

p. pr. & vb. n. of Call
n. The act of one who calls; a crying aloud, esp. in order to summon, or to attact the attention of, some one.
n. A summoning or convocation, as of Parliament.
n. A divine summons or invitation; also, the state of being divinely called.
n. A naming, or inviting; a reading over or reciting in order, or a call of names with a view to obtaining an answer, as in legislative bodies.
n. One’s usual occupation, or employment; vocation; business; trade.
n. The persons, collectively, engaged in any particular professions or employment.

n. See Assessment, 4.
v. t. To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.
v. t. 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.
v. t. 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.
v. t. To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name.
v. t. To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate.
v. t. 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.
v. t. To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of.
v. t. 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.
v. t. To invoke; to appeal to.
1n. 1 See Assessment, 4.
1v. t. 1 To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

n. One of the small cuplike cavities, often with elevated borders, covering the surface of most corals. Each is formed by a polyp. (b) One of the cuplike structures inclosing the zooids of certain hydroids. See Campanularian.

a. Made of, or having the appearance of, calico; — often applied to an animal, as a horse or cat, on whose body are large patches of a color strikingly different from its main color.
n. Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc.
n. Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.

n. An hemipterous insect (Murgantia histrionica) which injures the cabbage and other garden plants; — called also calico bug and harlequin cabbage bug.
n. The calico bass.