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 |
finale close closing curtain finis | the concluding part of any performance |
curtain raiser | any preliminary activity |
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) |
curtain drape drapery mantle pall | hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) |
curtain ring | a circular ring for holding up a curtain |
drop curtain drop cloth drop | a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies, often used as background scenery |
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 |
safety curtain | a fireproof theater curtain to be dropped in case of fire |
shower curtain | a curtain that keeps water from splashing out of the shower area |
telephone booth phone booth call box telephone box telephone kiosk | booth for using a telephone |
theater curtain theatre curtain | a hanging cloth that conceals the stage from the view of the audience, rises or parts at the beginning and descends or closes between acts and at the end of a performance |
siren call siren song | the enticing appeal of something alluring but potentially dangerous, he succumbed to the siren call of the wilderness |
iron curtain | an impenetrable barrier to communication or information especially as imposed by rigid censorship and secrecy, used by Winston Churchill in to describe the demarcation between democratic and communist countries |
bamboo curtain | an ideological barrier around communist China especially in the s and s |
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. |
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 |
curtain lecture | a private lecture to a husband by his wife |
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 |
curtain raiser | a short play presented before the main play |