Definition of calls

"calls" in the noun sense

1. 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"

2. 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"

3. cry, outcry, call, yell, shout, vociferation

a loud utterance often in protest or opposition

"the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience"

4. call, claim

a demand especially in the phrase "the call of duty"

5. 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"

6. 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"

7. margin call, call

a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement

8. call

a demand for a show of hands in a card game

"after two raises there was a call"

9. call

a request

"many calls for Christmas stories"

"not many calls for buggywhips"

10. call

an instruction that interrupts the program being executed

"Pascal performs calls by simply giving the name of the routine to be executed"

11. call

a visit in an official or professional capacity

"the pastor's calls on his parishioners"

"the salesman's call on a customer"

12. call

sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee

"he was ejected for protesting the call"

13. call option, call

the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date

"calls" in the verb sense

1. name, call, know as, be known as

assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to

"They named their son David"

"The new school was named after the famous Civil Rights leader"

2. call

ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality

"He called me a bastard"

"She called her children lazy and ungrateful"

3. call, telephone, call up, phone, ring

get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone

"I tried to call you all night"

"Take two aspirin and call me in the morning"

4. shout, shout out, cry, call, yell, scream, holler, hollo, squall

utter a sudden loud cry

"she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle"

"I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me"

5. call, send for

order, request, or command to come

"She was called into the director's office"

"Call the police!"

6. visit, call in, call

pay a brief visit

"The mayor likes to call on some of the prominent citizens"

7. call

call a meeting invite or command to meet

"The Wannsee Conference was called to discuss the `Final Solution'"

"The new dean calls meetings every week"

8. call

read aloud to check for omissions or absentees

"Call roll"

9. call

send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc. make a signal to in order to transmit a message

"Hawaii is calling!"

"A transmitter in Samoa was heard calling"

10. call

utter a characteristic note or cry

"bluejays called to one another"

11. call

stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather

"call a football game"

12. address, call

greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name

"He always addresses me with `Sir'"

"Call me Mister"

"She calls him by first name"

13. call

make a stop in a harbour

"The ship will call in Honolulu tomorrow"

14. call, call in

demand payment of (a loan

"Call a loan"

15. bid, call

make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands

"He called his trump"

16. call, call off

give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance

17. call

indicate a decision in regard to

"call balls and strikes behind the plate"

18. predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise

make a prediction about tell in advance

"Call the outcome of an election"

19. call

require the presentation of for redemption before maturation

"Call a bond"

20. call

challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement charge with or censure for an offense

"He deserves to be called on that"

21. call

declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee

"call a runner out"

22. call

lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal

"Call ducks"

23. call

order or request or give a command for

"The unions called a general strike for Sunday"

24. call

order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role

"He was already called 4 times for jury duty"

"They called him to active military duty"

25. call

utter in a loud voice or announce

"He called my name"

"The auctioneer called the bids"

26. call

challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of

"call the speaker on a question of fact"

27. call

consider or regard as being

"I would not call her beautiful"

28. call

rouse somebody from sleep with a call

"I was called at 5 A.M. this morning"

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Quotations for calls

One lie calls for many. [ Proverb ]

The hole calls the thief. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Nobody calls himself rogue. [ Proverb ]

The time calls for a leader. [ Lucan ]

Money calls, but does not stay:
It is round and rolls away. [ Proverb ]

Laziness calls for whip and spur. [ Proverb ]

When the scourge
Inexorable, and the torturing hour
Calls us to penance. [ Milton ]

Right coral calls for no colouring. [ Proverb ]

The rain comes when the wind calls. [ Emerson ]

He makes a solitude, and calls it peace. [ Byron ]

If honor calls, where'er she points the way
The sons of honor follow, and obey. [ Churchill ]

Can wealth give happiness? look round, and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whatever fortune lavishly can pour.
The mind annihilates, and calls for more. [ Young ]

I have a passion for the name of Mary,
For once it was a magic sound to me,
And still it half calls up the realms of fairy.
Where I beheld what never was to be. [ Byron ]

The immortal mind, superior to his fate.
Amid the outrage of external things,
Firm as the solid base of this great world.
Rests on his own foundation. Blow, ye winds!
Ye waves! ye thunders! roll your tempests on!
Shake, ye old pillars of the marble sky!
Till at its orbs and all its worlds of fire
Be loosen'd from their seats; yet still serene,
The unconquer'd mind looks down upon the wreck;
And ever stronger as the storms advance,
Firm through the closing ruin holds his way,
When nature calls him to the destined goal. [ Akenside ]

Every sprat, now-a-days, calls itself a herring. [ Proverb ]

I like that ancient Saxon phrase which calls
The burial ground, God's Acre! It is just;
It consecrates each grave within its walls.
And breathes a benison over the sleeping dust.
* * * * *
Into its furrows shall we all be cast.
In the sure faith, that we shall rise again
At the great harvest, when the archangel's blast
Shall winnow, like a fan, the chaff and grain. [ Longfellow ]

But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought
Of freedom, in that hope itself possess
All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength,
The scorn of danger, and united hearts,
The surest presage of the good they seek. [ Cowper ]

Joy is an exchange.
Joy flies monopolies; it calls for two:
Rich fruit, heaven-planted, never plucked by one. [ Edward Young ]

Joy is an import; joy is an exchange;
Joy flies monopolists: it calls for two;
Rich fruit! Heaven planted! never plucked by one. [ Young ]

Custom calls me to it -
What custom wills, in all things should we do it? [ William Shakespeare ]

He calls for a shooing-horn to help on his gloves. [ Proverb ]

Some one calls biography the home aspect of history. [ Beecher ]

Life is a mournful silence in which the heart ever calls. [ Lamartine ]

Whether your time calls you to live or die, do both like a prince. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Common sense, in an uncommon degree, is what the world calls wisdom. [ Coleridge ]

A man of parts may lie hid all his life, unless fortune calls him out. [ Proverb ]

For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief. [ Dr. Watts ]

Ingratitude calls forth reproaches, as gratitude brings fresh kindnesses. [ Madame de Sevigne ]

He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the evil that a man can be guilty of. [ Swift ]

Who fails to grieve when just occasion calls.
Or grieves too much, deserves not to be blest: Inhuman, or effeminate, his heart. [ Young ]

Beware what earth calls happiness; beware all joys but joys that never can expire. [ Young ]

The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood. [ Arndt ]

What is admirable justly calls forth our admiration, yet a woman seems to be no true woman who calls forth nothing else. [ Platen ]

When one is in love one begins by deceiving oneself, one ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls romance. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Never shrink from doing anything which your business calls you to do. The man who is above his business may one day find his business above him. [ Drew ]

Employment, which Galen calls nature's physician, is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery. [ Burton ]

The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation. [ Dr. Johnson ]

A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy. [ Cicero ]

I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly, and I believe he will often find that what he calls a zeal for his religion is either pride, interest, or ill-repute. [ Addison ]

He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who so lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die. [ Owen Feltham ]

It is more reasonable to wish for reputation while it may be enjoyed, as Anacreon calls upon his companions to give him for present use the wine and garlands which they propose to bestow upon his tomb. [ Dr. Johnson ]

He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior understanding he unites with. [ Burke ]

The power of painter or poet to describe rightly what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal, but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith. [ Ruskin ]

Seek such union to the Son of God as, leaving no present death within, shall make the second death impossible, and shall leave in all your future only that shadow of death which men call dissolution, and which the gospel calls sleeping in Jesus. [ James Hamilton ]

There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero. [ Fielding ]

It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke. [ Colton ]

It is averse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds or inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed, nor calls out his powers, if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke. [ Colton ]

We lose in depth of expression when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer calls Juno ox-eyed; and the epithet suits well with the eyes of that goddess, because she may be supposed, with all her beauty, to want a certain humanity. Her large eyes look at you with a royal indifference. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Society is but the contest of a thousand little opposite interests - an eternal contest between all the vanities that clash with each other, wounded, humiliated the one by the other, and which expiate tomorrow in the disgust of a defeat the triumph of today. To live in solitude, to avoid being crushed in the surging throng, is what the world calls being a nonentity - to have no existence. Poor, miserable humanity! [ Chamfort ]

Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Domitian said, that nothing was more grateful; Aristotle afirmed that beauty was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature, and Ovid, alluding to him, calls it a favor bestowed by the gods. [ From the Italian ]

Among the smaller duties of life, I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due. Reputation is one of the prizes for which men contend: it is, as Mr. Burke calls it, the cheap defense and ornament of nations. It produces more labor and more talent than twice the wealth of a country could ever rear up. It is the coin of genius, and it is the imperious duty of every man to bestow it with the most scrupulous justice and the wisest economy. [ Sydney Smith ]

calls in Scrabble®

The word calls is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

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calls in Words With Friends™

The word calls is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

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Words within the letters of calls

2 letter words in calls (2 words)

3 letter words in calls (2 words)

4 letter words in calls (1 word)

5 letter words in calls (1 word)

calls + 1 blank (5 words)

Words containing the sequence calls

Words that start with calls (1 word)

Words with calls in them (1 word)

Word Growth involving calls

Shorter words in calls

all call

Longer words containing calls

birdcalls

catcalls

miscalls

moosecalls

outcalls

phonecalls

recalls

rollcalls