Call (v. t.) To command or request to come or be present |
Call (v. t.) To summon to the discharge of a particular duty |
Call (v. t.) To invite or command to meet |
Call (v. t.) To give name to |
Call (v. t.) To regard or characterize as of a certain kind |
Call (v. t.) To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely |
Call (v. t.) To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of. |
Call (v. t.) To utter in a loud or distinct voice |
Call (v. t.) To invoke |
Call (v. t.) To rouse from sleep |
Call (v. i.) To speak in loud voice |
Call (v. i.) To make a demand, requirement, or request. |
Call (v. i.) To make a brief visit |
Call (n.) The act of calling |
Call (n.) A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty. |
Call (n.) An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor. |
Call (n.) A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case |
Call (n.) A divine vocation or summons. |
Call (n.) Vocation |
Call (n.) A short visit |
Call (n.) A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds. |
Call (n.) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty. |
Call (n.) The cry of a bird |
Call (n.) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land. |
Call (n.) The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on. |
Call (n.) See Assessment, 4. |
Mobile (a.) Capable of being moved |
Mobile (a.) Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity |
Mobile (a.) Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction |
Mobile (a.) Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind |
Mobile (a.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited |
Mobile (a.) The mob |
Primum mobile () In the Ptolemaic system, the outermost of the revolving concentric spheres constituting the universe, the motion of which was supposed to carry with it all the inclosed spheres with their planets in a daily revolution from east to west. See Crystalline heavens, under Crystalline. |
Radio- () A combining form indicating connection with, or relation to, a radius or ray |
Radio-flagellata (n. pl.) A group of Protozoa having both flagella and pseudopodia. |
Selective (a.) Selecting |
close call close shave squeak squeaker narrow escape | something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin |
call option call | the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date |
call | (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee, he was ejected for protesting the call |
lipectomy selective lipectomy | plastic surgery involving the breakdown and removal of fatty tissue |
call fire | fire delivered on a specific target in response to a request from the supported unit |
roll call | calling out an official list of names |
mail call | a call of names of those receiving mail |
muster call | a call of the names of personnel at a military assembly |
call | a visit in an official or professional capacity, the pastor's calls on his parishioners, the salesman's call on a customer |
call | a brief social visit, senior professors' wives no longer make afternoon calls on newcomers, the characters in Henry James' novels are forever paying calls on each other, usually in the parlor of some residence |
conscription muster draft selective service | compulsory military service |
call-back | the recall of an employee after a layoff |
service call | a trip made by a repairman to visit the location of something in need of service |
radio observation | an observation made with a radio telescope |
spot jamming selective jamming | electronic jamming of a specific channel or frequency |
call-board | a bulletin board backstage in a theater |
call center call centre | a center equipped to handle a large volume of telephone calls (especially for taking orders or serving customers) |
canteen mobile canteen | a restaurant outside, often for soldiers or policemen |
cellular telephone cellular phone cellphone cell mobile phone | a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own shortange transmitter receiver |
clock radio | a radio that includes a clock that can be set to turn it on automatically |
mobile | sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents |
mobile home manufactured home | a large house trailer that can be connected to utilities and can be parked in one place and used as permanent housing |
omnirange omnidirectional range omnidirectional radio range | a navigational system consisting of a network of radio beacons that provide aircraft with information about exact position and bearing |
Post-Office box PO Box POB call box letter box | a numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for |
push-button radio | a radio receiver that can be tuned by pressing buttons |
radar microwave radar radio detection and ranging radiolocation | measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects |
radio wireless | a communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves |
radio antenna radio aerial | omnidirectional antenna comprising the part of a radio receiver by means of which radio signals are received |
radio beacon beacon | a radio station that broadcasts a directional signal for navigational purposes |
radio chassis | a chassis for a radio receiver |
radio compass | a direction finder that gives a bearing by determining the direction of incoming radio signals |
radio interferometer | radio telescope that uses interference patterns from two antennas instead of a parabolic antenna |
radio link link | a two-way radio communication system (usually microwave), part of a more extensive telecommunication network |
radio-phonograph radio-gramophone | electronic equipment consisting of a combination of a radio receiver and a record player |
radio receiver receiving set radio set radio tuner wireless | an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals |
radio station | station for the production and transmission of AM or FM radio broadcasts |
radio telescope radio reflector | astronomical telescope that picks up electromagnetic radiations in the radio-frequency range from extraterrestrial sources |
radio transmitter | transmitter that is the part of a radio system that transmits signals |
selective-serotonin reuptake inhibitor SSRI | an antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain |
telephone booth phone booth call box telephone box telephone kiosk | booth for using a telephone |
siren call siren song | the enticing appeal of something alluring but potentially dangerous, he succumbed to the siren call of the wilderness |
radio brightness | the strength of a radio wave picked up by a radio telescope |
radio frequency | an electromagnetic wave frequency between audio and infrared |
information selective information entropy | (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome, the signal contained thousands of bits of information |
selective amnesia | amnesia about particular events that is very convenient for the person who cannot remember, why do politicians always develop selective amnesia when questioned about their transgressions? |
radio astronomy | the branch of astronomy that detects and studies the radio waves emitted by celestial bodies |
Call | a special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course, he was disappointed that he had not heard the Call |
call phone call telephone call | 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 |
call-back | a return call |
collect call | a telephone call that the receiving party is asked to pay for |