Call
- 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.
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.