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Call can be a noun or a verb.
call used as a noun:
- A telephone conversation.
"I received several phone calls today." - A social visit.
"I paid a call to a dear friend of mine." - A cry or shout.
"He heard a call from the other side of the room." - A decision or judgement.
"That was a good call." - The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
"That sound is the distinctive call of the cuckoo bird." - A beckoning or summoning.
"I had to yield to the call of the wild." - An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
- The act of calling to the other batsman.
- The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
- An overnight duty in the hospital.
- The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the point.
- A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
"There was a 20 dollar bet on the table, and my call was 9."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
call used as a verb:
- To request, summon, or beckon.
"That person is hurt, call for help!" - To cry or shout.
"I can't see you. Call out to me so I can find you." - To contact by telephone.
"Why don't you call me in the morning." - To pay a social visit.
"We could always call on a friend." - To name or refer to.
"Why don't we dispense with the formalities. Please call me Al." - (reflexively: to be called) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
"I'm called John." - (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
- (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions.)
- To match or equal the amount of poker chips in the pot as the player that bet.
- (with an object preceded by the preposition for) To require, demand.
"This job calls for patience." - To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
"My partner called 2 spades." - To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
- To demand repayment of a loan.
- To predict.
"He called twelve of the last three recessions." - To declare in advance.
"The captains call the coin toss." - To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is call?
- Noun usage: I received several phone calls today.
- Noun usage: I received several calls today.
- Noun usage: I paid a call to a dear friend of mine.
- Noun usage: He heard a call from the other side of the room.
- Noun usage: That was a good call.
- Noun usage: That sound is the distinctive call of the cuckoo bird.
- Noun usage: I had to yield to the call of the wild.
- Noun usage: There was a 20 dollar bet on the table, and my call was 9.
- Verb usage: That person is hurt, call for help!
- Verb usage: I can't see you. Call out to me so I can find you.
- Verb usage: Why don't you call me in the morning.
- Verb usage: We could always call on a friend.
- Verb usage: Why don't we dispense with the formalities. Please call me Al.
- Verb usage: I'm called John.
- Verb usage: A very tall building is called a skyscraper.
- Verb usage: This job calls for patience.
- Verb usage: My partner called 2 spades.
- Verb usage: He called twelve of the last three recessions.
- Verb usage: The captains call the coin toss.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of call are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of call, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).