Call Up

Definition: Call Up

Call Up

Noun

1. An order to report for military duty.

Verb

1. Bring forward for consideration: "The case was called up in court".

2. Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone; "I tried to call you all night"; "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning".

3. Recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection: "I can't remember saying any such thing"; "I can't think what her last name was"; "can you remember her phone number?" "Do you remember that he once loved you?"; "call up memories".

4. Call to arms; of military personnel.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Call Up

Excitation

Verb: excite, affect, touch, move, impress, strike, interest, animate, inspire, impassion, smite, infect; stir the blood, fire the blood, warm the blood; set astir; wake, awake, awaken; call forth; evoke, provoke; raise up, summon up, call up, wake up, blow up, get up, light up; raise; get up the steam, rouse, arouse, stir; fire, kindle, enkindle, apply the torch, set on fire, inflame.

Memory

Recognize, recollect, bethink oneself, recall, call up, retrace; look back, trace back, trace backwards; think back, look back upon; review; call upon, recall upon, bring to mind, bring to remembrance; carry one's thoughts back; rake up the past.

Remind; suggest; (inform ); prompt; put in mind, keep in mind, bring to mind; fan the embers; call up, summon up, rip up; renew; infandum renovare dolorem; jog the memory, flap the memory, refresh the memory, rub up the memory, awaken the memory; pull by the sleeve; bring back to the memory, put in remembrance, memorialize.

Motive

Verb: induce, move; draw, draw on; bring in its train, give an impulse; Noun: to; inspire; put up to, prompt, call up; attract, beckon.

Sorcery

Verb: practice sorcery;Noun: cast a nativity, conjure, exorcise, charm, enchant; bewitch, bedevil; hoodoo, voodoo; entrance, mesmerize, magnetize; fascinate; (influence); taboo; wave a wand; rub the ring, rub the lamp; cast a spell; call up spirits, call up spirits from the vasty deep; raise spirits from the dead.

Crosswords: Call Up

A Cromwell would call up five million coloured men from the Empire, and not drain Britain of her wealth producing resources. (Labour of Love; writing credit: Andrea Piva)

Did you call up your mother to tell her you loved her; (Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning); performing artist: Alan Jackson)

Pick up the phone call up the line (Request Line; performing artist: Black Eyed Peas)

That's right I had to call up L (Hey Ma; performing artist: Cam'ron)

Just about to call up the DA man (Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress); performing artist: Hollies)

Then you call up and it's her girlfriend or her cousin's house (O.P.P.; performing artist: Naughty By Nature)

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Books

• Call Up the Groups!: The Golden Age of British Beat 1962-67 (reference)

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If you don't mind I think I'll call up Dr. Dafoe, I think there are going to be some more. Credit: Library of Congress.

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I then desired the Governor to call up Descartes and Gassendi, with whom I prevailed to explain their systems to Aristotle.

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Expressions using "call up": call up a spirit ♦ call up again ♦ call up order ♦ call up spirits from the vasty deep ♦ To call up. Additional references.

Albanian

thërres (ask, bawl, call, call out, conjure, convene, convoke, cry, exclaim, give a cry, hail, holler, invite, shout, sing out, summon, vociferate, wawl, whoop), thërras (ask, bawl, call, call out, conjure, convene, convoke, cry, drum up, exclaim, hail, holler, invite, obtest, page, shout, sing out, summon, vociferate, wawl, whoop), telefonoj (phone, ring up, telephone), sjell në mend (remember), kujtoj (bear in mind, bring to mind, guess, hold, impart, keep in mind, mind, recall, recollect, remember, retain, think, understand, visualize). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تلفن (buzz, call, phone, ring up), ‏تعبئة عامة, ‏إنذار (alert, intimation, notice, notification, prognosis, signalling, ultimatum, warning), ‏إستنفار, ‏إستدعى (call, demand, evoke, recall, send for, summon), ‏أيقظ من النوم (wake), ‏دعا للتعبئة العامة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

събуждам (arouse, awake, awaken, challenge, elevate, get up, rouse, shake up, wake, wake up, waken), свиквам (accustom, addict, adjust oneself, call, call together, convene, convoke, get acclimatized, habituate, inure, muster, summon), спомням си (place, recall, recollect, remember), обаждам се по телефона на, обаждам се по телефона (call, ring up), мобилизация (mobilization), мобилизирам (levy, mobilize), повиквам (beckon, call, call away, call in, call out, convene, send for, summon). (various references)

Czech

zavolat (call, call out, hail, ring, ring up, send for, summon), zatelefonovat, vyvolat (bring, bring about, call, call forth, cause, develop, draw, evoke, induce, initiate, invite, raise, start, stir), povolat (call in, draft), povolání k vojenské službì, přivolat (call, call in, call out, hail, ring up, summon), připomenout (bring back, bring to mind, commemorate, remind), mobilizovat (mobilize). (various references)

Finnish

kutsua sotapalvelukseen, kutsua asepalvelukseen. (various references)

French

convocation (calling), rappel (curtain call), mobiliser, mobilisation générale, faire un coup de téléphone, faire réveiller, appeler au téléphone, évoquer. (various references)

German

telefonieren (call, make a phone call, phone, ring, ring up, telephone, to phone, to telephone), mobilisieren (line up, make liquid, mobilize), einziehung (collection, conscription, draft, enlistment, induction, levy, requisition, withdrawal), einziehen (breathe in, bring in, call in, collect, confiscate, conscript, draft, draw in, draw up, duck, gather in, haul in, hold in, hunch, indent, induct, levy, lower, march in, move in, move into, muster in, pull in, put in, recall, requisition, retract, retraction, seize, settle in, sniff, soak in, soak up, suck in, take away, take in, thread, to move in, wind in, withdraw), einberufung (calling, conscription, convention, convocation, draft, induction, summoning), einberufen (conscript, convene, convoke, draft, induct, summon), aufrufen (appeal, call, call in, call upon, evoke, invoice, invoke, proclaim, summon, to invoice, to invoke), anrufen (appeal, appeal to, buzz, call, challenge, hail, invoke, make a phone call, phone, phone back, phone in, ring, ring up, shout to, summon, telephone, to buzz, to invoke), abrufen (call away, fetch, request delivery of, retrieve, to demand, to fetch, withdraw), abfragen (extract, interrogate, query, quiz, request, retrieval, sample, scan, test, to inquire, to interrogate, to request). (various references)

Greek 

ανακαλώ στο νου, τηλεφωνώ (call, phone, ring, ring up, telephone). (various references)

Hebrew 

אזעק�" (alarm, alert), �"זעק�" (alert, summoning), �'יוס (enlistment, induction, mobilization, recruitment), צו �'יוס (mobilization order). (various references)

Hungarian

felidéz (evoke, to call back, to conjure up, to evoke, to exorcise, to exorcize, to invoke, to recall, to reproduce, to wake), felhív (to call, to challenge, to dare, to put on), behívó (draft, draft call), behívás (conscription, draft, draft call). (various references)

Italian

leva (conscription, draft, generation, hand gear, lever, levers, levy, notification, prize, roundup, stimulus). (various references)

Manx

yllagh gys shirveish, gerrym caggee (battle cry, war cry). (various references)

Pig Latin

allcay upay

Portuguese

mandar subir, lembrar (admonish, caution, hark back, keep in mind, know, occur, put in mind, recall, recollect, remember, remind, smack, suggest, to remember, warn), intimar (challenge, convene, enjoin, garnish, intimate), instigar (actuate, egg on, encourage, impel, incite, instigate, push, put, put on, rouse, set on, spur on, stimulate, tempt, urge). (various references)

Romanian

chema sub drapel (call in), chema (ask, call, call down, challenge, chuckle, conjure, convene, convoke, entreat, hail, muster, page, ring, shout, signify, summon), suna (beat, blare, call, chime, go, hoot, jingle, resound, ring, sound, strike, tinkle, toot), mobiliza (call, mobilize, muster in), evoca (awake, conjure up, evoke, provoke, recall), deştepta (arouse, awake, awaken, call, enkindle, enliven, evoke, knock up, raise, reveille, rouse, wake). (various references)

Russian 

созвониться (ring fence), вызывать по телефону (ring up), вызвать по телефону, призыв на военную службу, позвонить (ring up), позвать наверх, подозвать (beckon). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

telefonirati (buzz, phone, ring up, telephone), pozvati (ask, call, call in, call on, invite), poziv (avocation, call, invitation, notification, profession, summons, vocation), izazvati (arouse, bring about, cause, challenge, create, educe, engender, generate, induce, originate, produce, prompt, tempt, touch off, trigger, trigger off). (various references)

Spanish

unión total, traer (bring, bring along, bring around, bring forward, bring in, bring round, bringing, carry, carry back, cover up, fetch, get, take along, wear, wheel out), servicio militar obligatorio (conscription), movilizar (mobilize), movilización (mobilization), llamar por teléfono (call on the phone, make a phone call, phone, ring up, telephone), llamar al servicio, llamar a filas, llamar (appeal to, beckon, buzz, call, call back, call in, call off, call over, call upon, draw, engage, get, get on to, give a ring, have in, hit, hollo, holloa, invoke, knock, knock up, name, recall, ring, ring the bell, ring up, strike, summon, term, to call, touch off, whip in), hacer subir (bring up, push up, send up, show up), evocar (conjure up, evoke, look back on, raise, to conjure up). (various references)

Swedish

inkalla (bring in, conscript, convene, induct, muster, summon). (various references)

Turkish

celp (citation, summons), telefon etmek (buzz, call, give a ring, give a tinkle, give smb. a tinkle, phone, ring smb. up, ring up, telephone), silâh altına almak (mobilize, recruit), hayalinde canlandırmak, hatırlamak (call to mind, recall, recapture, recollect, recur, remember), getirtmek (cause to bring, send for), gelmesini sağlamak, askere çağırmak (conscript), çağrı belgesi alanlar, çağrı belgesi, çağrı (call, calling, citation, convocation, garnishment, invitation, summons, vocation). (various references)

Turkmen 

jyссyrdatmak (make a call). (various references)

Ukrainian

виклик (call, calling, challenge, citation, dare, defiance, defy, provocation, ringing, summons), призов на війскову службу, покликати нагору, перекличка радіостанцій. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: culpa.

-2 letters: call, caul, clap, cull, pall, pula, pull.

-3 letters: all, alp, cap, cup, lac, lap, pac, pal, pul.

-4 letters: al, la, pa, up.

+2 letters: culpable, culpably, pullback, skullcap.

+3 letters: pullbacks, punchball, skullcaps.

+4 letters: callithump, eucalyptol, inculpable, leucoplast, peacefully, peculiarly, precalculi, publically, punchballs, punctually, sculptural, sepulchral, specularly.

+5 letters: apicultural, callipygous, callithumps, culpability, cupellation, eucalyptole, eucalyptols, leucoplasts, leukoplakic, municipally, nucleoplasm, peacefuller, pluralistic, polynuclear, precalculus, unpolitical, untypically.