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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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) |
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 |
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 |
| 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 |
| call forwarding | lets you transfer your incoming calls to any telephone that you can dial direct |
| call-in | a telephone call to a radio station or a television station in which the caller participates in the on-going program |
| call waiting | a way of letting you know that someone else is calling when you are using your telephone |
| crank call | a hostile telephone call (from a crank) |
| local call | a telephone call made within a local calling area |
long distance
long-distance call
trunk call | a telephone call made outside the local calling area, I talked to her by long distance |
| toll call | a long-distance telephone call at charges above a local rate |
| conference call | a telephone call in which more than two people participate |
| wake-up call | a telephone call that you request be made a specific time in order to wake you up at that time (especially in hotels), she left a wake-up call for a.m. |
direct object
object of the verb | the object that receives the direct action of the verb |
predicate
verb phrase | one of the two main constituents of a sentence, the predicate contains the verb and its complements |
| verb | the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence |
| auxiliary verb | a verb that combines with another verb in a verb phrase to help form tense, mood, voice, or condition of the verb it combines with |
modal auxiliary verb
modal auxiliary
modal verb
modal | an auxiliary verb (such as `can' or `will') that is used to express modality |
| verb | a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence |
| reflexive verb | a verb whose agent performs an action that is directed at the agent, the sentence `he washed' has a reflexive verb, `perjure' is a reflexive verb because you cannot perjure anyone but yourself |
| phrasal verb | an English verb followed by one or more particles where the combination behaves as a syntactic and semantic unit, `turn out' is a phrasal verb in the question `how many turned out to vote?' |
transitive verb
transitive verb form
transitive | a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical |
doubly transitive verb
doubly transitive verb form | a transitive verb that takes both a direct and an indirect object |
intransitive verb
intransitive verb form
intransitive | a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object |
copula
copulative
linking verb | an equating verb (such as `be' or `become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence |
| call | an instruction that interrupts the program being executed, Pascal performs calls by simply giving the name of the routine to be executed |
| function call | a call that passes control to a subroutine, after the subroutine is executed control returns to the next instruction in main program |
system call
supervisor call instruction | an instruction that interrupts the program being executed and passes control to the supervisor |
birdcall
call birdsong
song | the characteristic sound produced by a bird, a bird will not learn its song unless it hears it at an early age |
| bell-like call | a birdcall that resembles the tone of a bell |
| two-note call | a birdcall having two notes, the two-note call of the cuckoo |
distress signal
distress call | an internationally recognized signal sent out by a ship or plane indicating that help is needed |
| bugle call | a signal broadcast by the sound of a bugle |
call mark
call number
pressmark | a mark consisting of characters written on a book, used to indicate shelf location |