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Definition: Call |
CallNoun1. A telephone connection; "she reported several anonymous calls"; "he placed a phone call to London"; "he heard the phone ringing but didn't want to take the call". 2. A special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course; "he was disappointed that he had not heard the Call". 3. A loud utterance; often in protest or opposition; "the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience". 4. A demand especially in the phrase "the call of duty". 5. The characteristic sound produced by a bird; "a bird will not learn its song unless it hears it at an early age". 6. A brief social visit: "senior professors' wives no longer make afternoon calls on newcomers". 7. A demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement. 8. A demand for a show of hands in a card game; "after two raises there was a call". 9. A request; "many calls for Christmas stories"; "not many calls for buggywhips". 10. : an instruction that interrupts the program being executed; "Pascal performs calls by simply giving the name of the routine to be executed". 11. : brief visit in an official or professional capacity: "the pastor's visits to his parishioners"; "a visit to a dentist"; "the salesman's call on a customer". 12. : (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee; "he was ejected for protesting the call". 13. : the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date. Verb1. Assign a specified, proper name to; "They named their son David"; "The new school was named after the famous Civil Rights leader". 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. Ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality; "He called me a bastard"; "She called her children lazy and ungrateful". 4. Order, request, or command to come; "She was called into the director's office"; "Call the police!". 5. Utter a sudden loud cry; "she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle"; "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me". 6. Pay a brief visit; "The mayor likes to call on some of the prominent citizens". 7. Call a meeting; invite or command to meet; "The Wannsee Conference was called to discuss the "Final Solution"; "The new dean calls meetings every week". 8. Order or request or give a command for; "The unions called a general strike for Sunday". 9. Order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role; "He was already called 4 times for jury duty"; "They called him to active military duty". 10. : indicate a decision in regard to (sports): "call balls and strikes behind the plate". 11. : stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather; "call a football game". 12. : read aloud to check for omissions or absentees; "Call roll". 13. : send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc.; make a signal to in order to transmit a message; "Hawaii is calling!"; "A transmitter in Samoa was heard calling". 14. : declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee; "call a runner out". 15. : utter a characteristic note or cry; "bluejays called to one another". 16. : utter in a loud voice or announce; "He called my name"; "The auctioneer called the bids". 17. : make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election". 18. : challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense; "He deserves to be called on that". 19. : consider or regard as being; "I would not call her beautiful". 20. : demand payment of, as of a loan; "Call a loan". 21. : give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance. 22. : greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name; "He always addresses me with `Sir'"; "Call me Mister"; "She calls him by first name". 23. : make a stop in a harbour; "The ship will call in Honolulu tomorrow". 24. : make a demand in card games, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands; "He called his trump". 25. : require the presentation of for redemption before maturation; "Call a bond". 26. : lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal: "Call ducks". 27. : challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of; "call the speaker on a question of fact". 28. : rouse somebody from sleep with a call; "I was called at 5 A.M. this morning". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "call" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Call (1.) To cry for help, hence to pray (Gen. 4:26). Thus men are said to "call upon the name of the Lord" (Acts 2:21; 7:59; 9:14; Rom. 10:12; 1 Cor. 1:2). (2.) God calls with respect to men when he designates them to some special office (Ex. 31:2; Isa. 22:20; Acts 13:2), and when he invites them to accept his offered grace (Matt. 9:13; 11:28; 22:4). In the message of the gospel his call is addressed to all men, to Jews and Gentiles alike (Matt. 28:19; Mark 16:15; Rom. 9:24, 25). But this universal call is not inseparably connected with salvation, although it leaves all to whom it comes inexcusable if they reject it (John 3:14-19; Matt. 22:14). An effectual call is something more than the outward message of the Word of God to men. It is internal, and is the result of the enlightening and sanctifying influence of the Holy Spirit (John 16:14; Acts 26: 18; John 6:44), effectually drawing men to Christ, and disposing and enabling them to receive the truth (John 6:45; Acts 16:14; Eph. 1:17). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Computing | An instruction used to transfer the program execution sequence temporarily to a subroutine or subprogram. Source: European Union. (references) |
Economics | 1. A demand for early repayment of an obligation, or for the performance of a specific act under a contract. 2. A demand for the payment of money 3. The act of redeeming a bond earlier than the full term. 4. Short for "Call Option," a contract giving the holder the right to receive from the issuer a specified amount of a security at a specified price on or before a certain date. 5. Short for "Margin Call" - a call by a future or an options exchange, or by a broker to its clients, for additional collateral to that previously posted when the futures, options, or securities were purchased without posting their full value. (references) |
Finance | Option which gives the right to buy a block of stock at a predetermined price within a given period. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Option contract that gives the holder the right to purchase a standardized quantity of a specified asset at a fixed price at or within a designated date or the right to receive the settlement price of the underlying value less the exercise price of the option at or within a designated date. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| An option to purchase designated securities at a predetermined price within a specified time limit. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| (1) an option to buy a specific security at a specified price within a designated period. (2) to demand payment of a loan because of the failure of the borrower to comply with the terms of the loan. (3) to demand payment for stocks or bonds that have been purchased or subscribed. See "put." (references) | |
Insurance | A sum for the right to indemnity by a Protection and Indemnity Club that members have to pay. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Call (A ). A "divine" summons or invitation, as "a call to the ministry." A call before the curtain. An applause inviting a favourite actor to appear before the curtain, and make his bow to the audience. A Gospel call. The invitation of the Gospel to men to believe in Jesus to the saving of their souls. A morning call. A short morning visit. A call on shareholders. A demand to pay up a part of the money due for shares allotted in a company. Payable at call. To be paid on demand. Call (To). I call God to witness. I solemnly declare that what I state is true. To call. To invite: as, the trumpet calls. "If honour calls, where'er she points the way, The sons of honour follow and obey." Churchill: The Farewell, stanza 7. To call [a man] out. To challenge him; to appeal to a man's honour to come forth and fight a duel. To call in question. To doubt the truth of a statement; to challenge the truth of a statement. "In dubium vocare. " To call over the coals. (See Coals.) To call to account. To demand an explanation; to reprove. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Post & Telecom | The establishment and use of a complete connection, following a call attempt ; a generic term related to the establishment, utilization and release of a connection. Source: European Union. (references) |
| All of the network layer processes involved in one network layer peer-to-peer association. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| In signalling, an association between two or more users, or between a user and a network entity, that is established by use of network capabilities. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The action performed by the calling party. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In computer science and telecommunications, calling is:
- Any attempt to set up a communications circuit.
- A unit of traffic measurement.
- The actions performed by a call originator.
- The operations required to establish, maintain, and release a connection.
- To use a connection between two stations.
- The action of bringing a computer program, subroutine, or variable into effect; usually by specifying the entry conditions and the entry point. In programming languages (such as C and C++) before subroutines and variables can be called, they must be declared.
References
- Federal Standard 1037C
- MIL-STD-188
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In the game of poker, to call is to make the total amount of one's bet equal to the amount of the immediately preceding bet (which will be the largest bet made in that round). All players must eventually call an equal amount for the betting round to end, or else one player must bet an amount that no one calls, thus ending the entire deal and awarding him the pot.When no one has yet Openeded the betting round, one may Check, which is equivalent to calling the current bet of zero.
The second and subsequent calls of a particular bet amount are sometimes called overcalls. That is, if one player bets, a second player calls, and a third player calls that same amount, this last call (and subsequent ones) are overcalls.
In a Fixed limit or Spread limit game, the act of calling a bet that includes two or more raises is called a cold call. For example, if the first player opens, and a second player raises, any player with no money already in the pot must call that full amount, and is said to cold call the two bets.
In public card rooms and casinos where verbal declarations in turn (and sometimes even out of turn) are binding, the word "call" is such a declaration. In particular, the practice commonly seen in poker games on television and in moives of saying "I call, and raise $100" is considered a string Raise and is not allowed in a serious poker game. Saying "I call" commits you to the action of calling, and only calling.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Call (poker)."
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A call option is a financial contract between two parties, the buyer and the seller of the option, that allows the buyer, then owner, of the option the right but not the obligation to buy an agreed quantity of a particular commodity or financial instrument from the seller of the option at a certain time (or times depending on the exact specification of the contract). for a certain price, known as the strike."Selling" in this context is not supplying something that the seller owns, but it means granting the buyer this right, against a fee.
The most widely-known call option is that when the option is to buy stock in a particular company. This is a stock option. However options are traded on many other quantities both financial, such as interest rates (called an interest rate cap) or foreign exchange rates (see foreign exchange option) and physical such as gold or crude oil.
Example of a call option on a stock
I might enter a contract to have the option to buy a share in Microsoft Corp. on June 1 2005 for $50. If the share price is actually $60 on that day then I would exercise my option (i.e. buy the share from the counter-party). I could then sell it in the open market for $60, i.e. the option would be worth $10; my profit would be $10 . If however the share price is only $40 then I would not exercise the option (if I really wanted to own such a share, I could buy it in the open market for $40, why waste $50 on it). My option would be be worth nothing. Thus in any future state of the world, I am certain not to lose money by owning the option. This implies that the option itself must have some positive value (the price of the option). This value varies with the share price and time. The science of determining this value is the central tenet of financial mathematics. The most common method is to use the Black-Scholes formula. Whatever the method used, the buyer and seller must agree this value initially and the buyer pays the seller this value as a fee.
Like in the case of share trading, buyers and sellers of options do not usually interact directly with each other; the options exchange is intermediary and quotes the market value of the option. The seller has to supply a guarantee to the options exchange that he can fulfill his obligation if the buyer chooses to execute his option.
Compare also
See also: Derivatives markets, Derivative security, Financial economics, Finance
- Put option
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Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) is a method of teaching and learning languages by means of computer software specially designed to be used in the classroom. CALL came up in the 1980s in the wake of the computer revolution, which eventually also led to the availability of PCss in schools.
History
At the outset, the methodological discussion triggered by educationalists and practitioners soon focused on the possible advantages and disadvantages of CALL over traditional teaching methods. In the days before the popularisation of the Internet and the commercialization of self-study programs all material to be used by learners had to be provided by the teacher, and it became one of the tenets that each teacher who wanted to make use of the new technology should be able to write their own programs for classroom use. However, this idea was soon abandoned in favour of professionally written programs.
London-based Wida Software were one of the first to offer such programs. Typical software of the first generation of CALL included Matchmaster (where students have to match two sentence halves or anything else that belongs together); Choicemaster (the classic multiple choice test format); Gapmaster (for gapped texts); Textmixer (which jumbles lines within a poem or sentences within a paragraph); Wordstore (a learner's own private vocabulary database, complete with a definition and an example sentence in which the word to be learned is used in a context); or Storyboard (where a short text is blotted out completely and has to be restored from scratch).
The early versions of these language programs were extremely small: For example, the whole Wida package could be stored on one 5¼" floppy disk with 360 kB of storage space. Sound effects were limited to the occasional beep if a wrong answer had been entered, and the use of a mouse was not enabled. However, the educational value of these programs was high because they ideally consisted of a student and a teacher version. The latter included an authoring program, where the individual teacher was encouraged to type in their own texts (rather than make do with the example texts provided by the manufacturers) which then would be jumbled, gapped, blotted out, or whatever. This way teachers were put in a position to cater for their classes' individual needs much better.
Other CALL activities in the early days of computer use in schools included working with text editors, which, it was hoped, would revolutionize text production assignments by enabling language learners to continually revise and have peer reviewed what they are writing before printing out the final version of their composition.
Methodological considerations
Fascinated by the new technology, many users within the school environment focused on technical issues, at the same time neglecting pedagogical questions and not realising that an innovative methodology was required to satisfactorily integrate the use of computers in language classes. One point of criticism which could easily be refuted was the claim that, within a class, each student should be able to work alone at a terminal so as not to be disturbed by their classmates. It was found out that using computers in language classes could, as a side effect, promote team work among students and, if planned well, might also encourage them to use the target language to communicate in front of their PCs, thus increasing the time they spend practising their oral skills.
Generally, it turned out that methodology was always lagging behind the software that had recently been put on the market.
The current situation
Today, the term CALL is rarely used. In many contexts, it has been replaced by TELL (Technology enhanced language learning), this way recognizing the massive use of CD-ROMs, the Internet and multimedia in classroom situations (see also E-learning).
Further reading
- Scott Windeatt, David Hardisty & David Eastment: The Internet (Resource Books for Teachers, ed. Alan Maley) (OUP, 2000) (ISBN 0194372235)
External links
- TELL & CALL magazine (partly in German)
- The WIDA website (including updates on most of their original programs, now called The Authoring Suite)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Computer-assisted language learning."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CALL | English | Computer assisted language learning | Computing, Education |
| CAC | English | Call admission control | Post & Telecom |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: CallSynonyms: birdcall (n), birdsong (n), call option (n), claim (n), margin call (n), outcry (n), phone call (n), shout (n), song (n), telephone call (n), vociferation (n), address (v), anticipate (v), bid (v), call in (v), call off (v), call up (v), cry (v), forebode (v), foretell (v), holler (v), hollo (v), name (v), phone (v), predict (v), prognosticate (v), promise (v), ring (v), scream (v), send for (v), shout out (v), squall (v), telephone (v), visit (v), yell (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: put option (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Advice | Enjoin, enforce, charge, instruct, call; call upon; (request); dictate. |
Command | Noun: command, order, ordinance, act, fiat, hukm, bidding, dictum, hest, behest, call, beck, nod. |
Deity | Predestinate, elect, call, ordain, bless, justify, sanctify, glorify; |
Duty | Noun: duty, what ought to be done, moral obligation, accountableness, liability, onus, responsibility; bounden duty, imperative duty; call, call of duty; accountability. |
Evidence | Adduce, attest, cite, quote; refer to, appeal to; call, call to witness; bring forward, bring into court; allege, plead; produce witnesses, confront witnesses. |
Indication | Word of command, call; bugle call, trumpet call; bell, alarum, cry; battle cry, rallying cry; angelus; reveille; sacring bell, sanctus bell. |
Motive | Reason, ground, call, principle; by end, by purpose; mainspring, primum mobile, keystone; the why and the wherefore; pro and con, reason why; secret motive, arriere pensee; intention. |
Nomenclature | Verb: name, call, term, denominate designate, style, clepe, dub, christen, baptize, characterize, specify, define, distinguish by the name of; label; (mark). |
Phrase | Verb: express, phrase; word, word it; give words to, give expression to; voice; arrange in words, clothe in words, put into words, express by words; couch in terms; find words to express; speak by the card; call, denominate, designate, dub. |
Possession | Futures contract, warrant, put, call, option; right of first refusal. |
Sociality | Visiting; round of visits; call, morning call; interview; (conversation); assignation; tryst, trysting place; appointment. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Friends call me Nova as in Casonova (American Pie; writing credit: Adam Herz) I need to call a phone (I.Q.; writing credit: Andy Breckman and Michael Leeson.) and you give me my phone call. (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.) Cosmo, call me a cab. (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green) Some call me one thing and others another (Red River; writing credit: Borden Chase) | |
Lyrics | Just because I made that call and lied (The Call; performing artist: Backstreet Boys) Call on me 'cause (Call On Me; performing artist: Chicago) So why they call it fallin (Why They Call It Fallin; performing artist: Lee Ann Womack) Why don't you call me again (Why Didn't You Call Me?; performing artist: Macy Gray) Babe call me (Call Me; performing artist: Tweet) | |
Clever | She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot. (references; author: Mark Twain) No call alligator long mouth till you pass him. (references; author: Jamaican Proverb) Why do they call it a TV set when you only get one? (references; author: unknown) Why is it that doctors call what they do "practice"? (references; author: unknown) What do you call Santa's helpers? Subordinate Clauses. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Call Me Claus (2001) I Heard the Owl Call My Name (1973) On Call (1973) Call Her Mom (1972) Casting Call (1972) | |
Song Titles | Bugle Call Rag (performing artist: The Glenn Miller Orchestra) Someone To Call My Lover (performing artist: Janet Jackson) WHENEVER I CALL YOU FRIEND (performing artist: KENNY LOGGINS) Why They Call It Feeling (performing artist: Lee Ann Womack) Why Didn't You Call Me (performing artist: Macy Gray) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Public Health nurse with Eskimo and dog team preparing to make a call on local residents. Credit: CDC. |  | Swim call in the Arabian Sea OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Washington Monument and Smithsonian Institution as seen from Potomac River. In: "Protection from Lightning" by Alexander McAdie. 1894. Library Call Number TH 9057.M3 1894. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | "View of Benicia from the West", frontispiece. In: Reports of Explorations and Surveys .... Vol. 5. Commonly known as Pacific Railroad Surveys. Call Number F593 .U58. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Swim call! Undaunted by Jaws movies, ALBATROSS IV crewman dives into waters off Menempsha Bight. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | "The Emperors' Conclave". In: "The Heart of the Antarctic", Volume II, by E. H. Shackleton, 1909. P. 240. Library Call Number G149 S52. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Text accompanying Plate I. In: "Report on the Florida Reefs", 1880, by Louis Agassiz. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Vol. VII, No. 1. Plate I. NOAA Central Library Call No. QE565.A263 1880 These plates help document the oldest studies of the Florida Reefs. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | Current measuring device. In: Richard, J., 1907, "L'Oceanographie," p. 176. Paris, Vuibert & Nony Editeurs. Library Call Number 525.8 R51. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | A green laser water penetration system devised by Sylvania Electronic Systems in the late 1970's. Although advertised for fisheries use, this technology has evolved into LIDAR, a system for measuring shallow-water bathymetry and also for into a rapid terrain mapping technique. In: Farooq Hussain, 1970, "Living Underwater, " p. 87. Library Call Number GC65 H8 1970b. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Staff Sgt. Norm Leo, a crisis hotline volunteer from the 623rd Air Mobility Support Squadon, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, passes information to fellow volunteer Teresa McBride as she responds to a call. (P.; photo by Master Sgt. Keith Reed).. |
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| "Call me!! 1" by Pollyana Rosa Commentary: "Estas fotos foram tiradas para um trabalho em um museu do telefone. these pictures were taken for a job in a museum of telephones)." | "No call" by Markus . Commentary: "Take a call or leave it." |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Amplified harmonica using a call and response; a beginning of a short jam. | | Modern blues style excerpt showcasing a call and response between piano and trumpet. |
| Heron call. | | Call and response influenced interaction between rhythm section and tenor saxophone. |
| Minor synthesized call and response melody and counterpoint. | | Female dispatcher's police radio call. |
| Rhinoceros call. | | Heron call. |
| Quick staccato melody incorporating a call and response style melody. | | Sparrow's call. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Abigail Adams | Great necessities call out great virtues. |
Aeschylus | Call no man happy till he is dead. |
Benjamin Disraeli | We make our fortunes and we call them fate. |
Menander | I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade. |
O Wen Wister | When you call me that, smile! |
Pierre Corneille | Just vengeance does not call for punishment. |
Publius Cornelius Tacitus | They make a wilderness and call it peace. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Whatever limits us we call fate. |
William Shakespeare | O, call back yesterday, bid time return. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Both these he gives up, when he joins in a private, if I may so call it, or particular politic society, and incorporates into any common-wealth, separate from the rest of mankind. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961 | The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Shall I call upon them |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | I think I ought to call, at any rate, and offer my congratulations |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | He was so fluttered and so glowing with his good intentions, that his broken voice would scarcely answer to his call. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A miliary fever they call it. |
Imitation of Horace | John Dryden | Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own; He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | It was queer too that you could not call him sir because he was a brother and had a different kind of look |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Call for some men of sound direction |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | They call that sound business |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | When this method fails, they have two others more effectual, which the learned among them call acrostics and anagrams |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Call 911 immediately. (references) | |
Call your doctor if these symptoms occur. (references) | ||
Call their attention to sounds that are harmful. (references) | ||
Business | Voice over IP and call centers represent growing demand. (references) | |
Call center services are expected to experience considerable growth. (references) | ||
In 1998, the call center market in France totaled $616 M (6FRF=1USD). (references) | ||
Children | Qatar | The system allows both citizen and noncitizen children to call in with questions and concerns ranging from school, health, and psychological problems to concerns about sexual harassment. (references) |
Iceland | Building regulations updated in 1998 call for public accommodations--such as hotels, restaurants, banks, and stores--as well as government buildings to be accessible so that persons in wheelchairs have access without assistance. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Sri Lanka | Police traced the call to discover the caller's address. (references) |
Discrimination | Hong Kong | Human rights groups continued to call for laws specifically targeting, among other problems, public or private discrimination based on race and age. (references) |
Economic History | Armenia | Call (374-1) 524 661 or fax (374-1)151-550. (references) |
Sweden | Opening up a call center? - consider Sweden. (references) | |
Human Rights | Jamaica | The PNP's council on human rights echoed the residents' call. (references) |
Jamaica | Following a call from the opposition, the Prime Minister established a Commission of Inquiry. (references) | |
Argentina | Trials are public, and defendants have the right to legal counsel and to call defense witnesses. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Venezuela | Instead they call on the Government to recognize lands traditionally inhabited by them as territories belonging to each respective indigenous group. (references) |
Minorities | Ukraine | Rusyns (Ruthenians) continued to call for status as an official ethnic group in the country. (references) |
Germany | This has, at times, led to societal discord, such as local resistance to the construction of mosques or disagreements over whether Muslims can use loudspeakers in residential neighborhoods to call the faithful to prayer. (references) | |
Political Economy | Georgia | In times of internal disorder, the Government may call on the MOI or the military. (references) |
Italy | The President can also dissolve Parliament and call for elections if it is clear that no governing majority can be formed. (references) | |
Israel | However, if s/he chooses, the Prime Minister has the option to call for new elections before the end of the four-year term. (references) | |
Political Rights | Bangladesh | Nonetheless, parties continued to call hartals. (references) |
Egypt | The People's Assembly debates Government proposals, and members exercise their authority to call cabinet ministers to explain policy. (references) | |
Pakistan | Although many persons welcomed these changes, the major political parties continued to call for national elections to be held immediately and for the return of exiled political leaders. (references) | |
Trade | Argentina | For a list of USEACs call 1-800-USA-TRADE or go to www.USATrade.gov. (references) |
Switzerland | WEKO also will be permitted to call witnesses and to conduct searches. (references) | |
Czech Rep | Call 1-800-USA-TRADE for the location of your nearest U.S. Export Assistance Center. (references) | |
Travel | Vietnam | A general business call lasts no more than one hour. (references) |
South Africa | Appointments should be made in advance of a business call. (references) | |
Ghana | The Sprint access code is 01900. Call Back Services have also become popular. (references) | |
Women | Benin | Some women deputies have threatened to call for public protests if the legislation does not receive full, fair, and expeditious consideration. (references) |
Cape Verde | The Organization of Cape Verdean Women alleged that there is disparate treatment in inheritance matters, despite laws that call for equal rights. (references) | |
Kuwait | Leading the call for questioning were Assembly members who voted for the law in 1996. In October the Minister of Education submitted a report on measures already taken and future plans for gender segregation. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Tajikistan | The law mandates arbitration before a union legally may call a strike. (references) |
Ghana | A union may call a legal strike if the Government does not call for formal arbitration. (references) | |
Sweden | Safety ombudsmen have the authority to stop unsafe activity immediately and to call in an inspector. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Byron, who recovered long enough to call it "entuzy-muzy," had a relapse, which carried him off -- to Missolonghi. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dan Rather | Thanks for staying here. Welcome back. We're going to take a call, go to the telephones now, from Virginia Beach, Virginia. You're on. |
Gerald Ford | Some call me an elder statesman. I don't know. I don't mind telling you that I'm not ready to quit yet! |
James Van Praagh | Whatever you may call him. The higher self of yourself, the God self, your Christ self, whatever you wan to call the higher part of yourself. |
Jerry Lewis | If there's any of you folks out in television that have a phone, if you could call the studio and tell my lighting director that the damn lights are a pain in the tuchus. |
Joan Lunden | I don't know if you'd call me that because I never had a fertility problem. Your uterus, I guess, at a certain point maybe doesn't decide go along to go with the program. |
Mary Tyler Moore | Well, because it used to be thought that it only hit children in the way that you have to treat it as a type-one, we call it now. It's insulin dependency that is called juvenile or type one. |
Robert Novak | Earlier in the day, the Senate Judiciary Committee, headed by Senator Leahy, heard a call for FBI reorganization from Director Robert Mueller and whistle-blower Coleen Rowley. |
Rush Limbaugh | Call it whatever you like, but know that once again, Rush is right. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | On this call, momentous in the extreme, I sought and weighted what might best subdue the crisis. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | I believe it the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet invasions of the public order as his own personal concern. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Circumstances make it my duty to call the attention of Congress to the Bank of the United States. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Since then the housing shortage in countless communities, affecting millions of families, has magnified this call to action. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | World affairs will continue to call upon our energy and our courage. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Tonight I call on you--in fact, all the people of America--to help our Nation. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Because that's the way we are, this unique breed we call Americans. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | We've got to step forward when there's trouble, lend a hand, be what I call a point of light to a stranger in need. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | In today's health care system, insurance companies call all the shots. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Encouraging responsibility is not a search for scapegoats, it is a call to conscience. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Call" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 43.04% of the time. "Call" is used about 17,454 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 43.04% | 7,512 | 1,284 |
| Noun (singular) | 29.45% | 5,141 | 1,903 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 27.46% | 4,793 | 2,043 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.04% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17,454 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "call" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Call | Last name |