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📖 Определения и значения для слова call

📒 to give somebody/something a particular name; to use a particular name or title when you are talking to somebody

  • call somebody/something + noun They decided to call the baby Mark.
  • His name's Hiroshi but everyone calls him Hiro.
  • be called + noun What's their son called?

📒 to phone somebody

  • I'll call again later.
  • I got a message to call home immediately.
  • call somebody/something to do something I called the office to tell them I'd be late.

📒 to ask somebody/something to come quickly to a particular place by phoning

  • call somebody/something Someone called the police.
  • to call an ambulance/a doctor
  • call something for somebody I'll call a taxi for you.

📒 to describe somebody/something in a particular way; to consider somebody/something to be something

  • call somebody/something + noun I wouldn't call German an easy language.
  • Are you calling me a liar?
  • She now calls Southern California home (= she lives there).

📒 to claim that you are a particular type of person, especially when other people question whether this is true

  • Call yourself a friend? So why won't you help me, then?
  • She's no right to call herself a feminist.

📒 to shout or say something loudly to attract somebody’s attention

  • I thought I heard somebody calling.
  • call (out) to somebody (for something) She called out to her father for help.
  • call (out) to somebody to do something Someone called to him to wait.

📒 to ask somebody to come by shouting or speaking loudly

  • call somebody + adv./prep. Will you call the kids in for lunch?
  • call (somebody) He heard me call him and came to the door.
  • Did you call?

📒 to order somebody to come to a place

  • be called + adv./prep. Several candidates were called for a second interview.
  • The ambassador was called back to London by the prime minister.
  • He felt called to the priesthood (= had a strong feeling that he must become a priest).

📒 to order something to happen; to announce that something will happen

  • call something to call a meeting/strike
  • call something for… The prime minister has called an election for 8 June.

📒 to make a short visit to a person or place

  • I'll call round and see you on my way home.
  • call on somebody Let's call on John.
  • call to do something He was out when I called to see him.

📒 to make the noise that is typical for it

  • The cuckoo called across the trees to its mate.

📒 to predict what the result of something will be

  • call something It's a very open game that is very hard to call.
  • to be difficult/impossible to call
  • The result of this election is going to be too close to call.

📒 to say which side of a coin you think will face upwards after it is thrown

  • to call heads/tails

📒 to shout out the steps for people performing a square dance or country dance

📒 to remember somebody/something

  • She couldn't call to mind where she had seen him before.

📒 to remind you of somebody/something

  • The painting brings to mind some of Picasso's early works.

📒 to tell somebody to do what they are threatening to do, because you believe that they will not be cruel or brave enough to do it

  • She was tempted to call his bluff, hardly able to believe he’d carry out his threat.

📒 to make use of something

  • Chess is a game that calls into play all your powers of concentration.

📒 to doubt something or make others doubt something

  • His honesty has never been called into question.

📒 to decide or agree to stop doing something

  • After forty years in politics I think it's time for me to call it a day (= to retire).

📒 to agree to end a contest, argument, etc. because both sides seem equal

📒 to decide to stop doing something

📒 to use offensive words about somebody

  • Stop calling me names!

📒 to be the person who controls a situation

📒 to say exactly what you think without trying to hide your opinion

  • I believe in calling a spade a spade.

📒 to say or decide that it is time for something to finish

📒 to make somebody explain a mistake, etc. because they are responsible for it

📒 to ask people in a meeting to be quiet so that the meeting can start or continue

📒 to order somebody to obey the formal rules of a meeting; to start a formal meeting

  • The argument continued until the chairman called them both to order.
  • The president brought the meeting to order at 9.15 a.m.
  • As the meeting was brought to order, the councillor immediately stood and began to protest.

📒 the person who provides the money for something can also control how it is spent

📒 called to see somebody in authority because you have done something wrong

  • I got called on the carpet for being late.

📒 used to say that you should not criticize somebody for a fault that you have yourself

📒 used instead of a name that you cannot remember

  • She's just gone out with old what-d'you-call-him.
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