English Words: C

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call awayverb

To summon; to cause to depart.

call balls and strikesverb

To act as a home plate umpire.

call birdnoun

A captive bird used by hunters to lure free-flying birds into a snare or trap.

call buttonnoun

A button used to request assistance.

call collectverb

To make a telephone call in which the cost of the call is paid by the person receiving the call; to place a collect call.

call downverb

To pray for; to request from God.

call drinknoun

A mixed drink for which one specifies (i.e., calls) the exact brand or brands of liquor to be used.

call forverb

To shout out in order to summon (a person).

call forthverb

To summon, to call to speak.

call girlnoun

A female prostitute who is hired by telephone.

call inverb

To communicate with a base etc, by telephone.

call in sickverb

To inform one's workplace or school that one temporarily cannot attend work or school due to illness.

call into questionverb

To cause to be questioned; to introduce doubt regarding.

call itverb

To call it a day

call it a dayverb

To cease an activity.

call it evenverb

To declare debts resolved or favors or other exchange equitable.

call it quitsverb

To conclude; to quit or stop an activity, especially after applying oneself to it for a significant period of time.

call it stumpsverb

To decide to end an activity; to call it a day.

call lettersnoun

Call sign.

call namesverb

To use abusive or insulting language, engage in name-calling.

call notenoun

The note naturally used by a male bird to call a female. It is artificially applied by birdcatchers as a decoy.

call of dutynoun

What one's duty obliges one to do.

call of naturenoun

The bodily urge to urinate or defecate.

call offverb

To recall; to cancel or call a halt to.

call off the dogsverb

To ease up on after inflicting great punishment.

call onverb

To visit (a person); to pay a call to.

call on the carpetverb

To reprimand; to censure severely or angrily.

call outverb

To specify, especially in detail.

call out of one's nameverb

To call someone by a name other than their actual name; to misname.

call outta one's nameverb

Alternative form of call out of one's name.

call oververb

To ask (someone) to come to one's location, especially when raising one's voice towards someone within earshot.

call rollverb

To make a roll call; to take attendance.

call roundverb

To pay a short visit.

call screeningnoun

The process of evaluating the characteristics of a telephone call before a conversation. Some methods may include

call sheetnoun

The production schedule for a single day, detailing every scene to be filmed, and who is needed for each of those scenes.

call signnoun

A combination of letters and numbers used to identify a radio or television station.

call someone everything but a child of Godverb

To call someone many abusive names.

call someone's bluffverb

To take action on the basis that another person is bluffing.

call someone's numberverb

To be assigned to carry the ball at the start of a play.

call stacknoun

A stack that stores details of the functions called by a program in sequence, so that each function can return on completion to the code that called it.

call the ballverb

When landing on a US aircraft carrier: to sight the lights from the multi-colored optical landing system that shows a pilot to be on the correct approach path or how to correct the approach path.

call the shotsverb

To make the decisions; to be in charge; to give orders.

call the tuneverb

Synonym of call the shots.

call timeverb

To announce the closing of a pub for the day.

call toverb

To tempt (someone or something); to beckon; to be difficult to resist.

call to accountverb

To challenge or contest; to hold answerable for something.

call to armsnoun

An appeal to fight or to engage in conflict.

call to mindverb

To intentionally think about; to reflect upon.

call to taskverb

Alternative form of take to task.

call upverb

To retrieve from personal or computer memory.

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The English alphabetical index for the letter C contains 43,570 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 872 pages, and you are currently viewing page 31. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.

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