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callsnounpl. of call a natural vocal sound made by an animala ranger who could immediately identify the call of every creature in the forest cries, notes barks, bays, bellows, blats, bleats, brays, cackles, callings, caterwauls, caws, cheeps, chirps, clucks, coos, crakes, croaks, crows, grunts, honks, hoots, howls, lows, meows(also miaows), mews, moos, neighs, oinks, peeps, quacks, roars, screeches, squalls, squawks, squeaks, squeals, trumpets, tu-whit tu-whoos, twitters, whinnies, yaps, yelps, yips, yowls a coming to see another briefly for social or business reasonswe paid a call on the new neighbors the day after they moved in visitations, visits drop-ins, stopoversget-togethers, meetings, rendezvous, trysts a communication by telephonegive me a call as soon as you arrive, so I'll know you got there safely an act or instance of asking for informationput out a call for background information about the suspect inquiries, queries, questions, requests interrogatoriespolls, questionnaires, surveysinquisitions, interrogationsexaminations, explorations, inquests, investigations, probes, probings, researches, studies answers, replies, responses an entitlement to somethingyou have no call to insult people claims, dibs, pretenses(or pretences), pretensions, rights birthrights, prerogatives, titlesfavors, privilegesrefusals disclaimers, quitclaims, releases, waivers a position arrived at after considerationI told you my preference for a cruise destination, but it's your call awards, conclusions, decisions, deliverances, determinations, diagnoses, judgments(or judgements), opinions, resolutions, verdicts behests, charges, commandments, decrees, dictates, directives, edicts, instructions, mandates, orders, wordslast words, say-sosadjudications, dispositions, dooms, findings, rulings, sentenceschoices, options, selectionsconsensusesbeliefs, convictions, eyes, feelings, minds, notions, persuasions, sentiments, views deadlocks, draws, halts, stalemates, standoffs, ties the state of being sought after especially for purchasethere's not much call for woodstoves in this part of the country callsverbpresent tense third-person singular of callto speak so as to be heard at a distancewe could hear someone calling for help from the other side of the wall bawls, bays, bellows, cries, hollers, hollos(or halloos), roars, shouts, sounds off, thunders, vociferates, yells crows, whoopsscreams, screeches, shrieks, shrills, squeaks, squealscaterwauls, howls, ululates, wails, yawps(or yaups), yowlshailsspeaks out, speaks up breathes, mumbles, murmurs, mutters, whispers to make a telephone call touse this cell phone to call me if there's an emergency to make a brief visitthe hospital posts the hours during which friends and relatives may call comes by, comes over, drops by, drops in, pops (in), runs in, runs (over), steps in, stops (by or in), visits barges (in)looks up, seesbops (into), happens (by)frequents, hangs (at), haunts, resorts (to) to put an end to (something planned or previously agreed to)the game was called on account of rain abandons, aborts, calls off, cancels, cries off, drops, recalls, repeals, rescinds, revokes, scraps, scrubs abrogates, annuls, invalidates, nullifies, voids, writes offrecants, retracts, takes back, withdrawscountermands, reverses, rolls backbreaks off, discontinues, ends, halts, stops, terminatesholds back, interrupts, suspendsgives up, relinquishes, surrenders continues, keeps engages, pledges, promisesbegins, commences, initiates, startstakes on, takes up, undertakes to think of in a particular wayI wouldn't quite call that cheating, but it's not entirely ethical either accounts, considers, counts, esteems, holds, looks (on or upon), rates, reckons, regards, sets down, views believes, deems, feels, senses, thinksconceives, fancies, imagines takes for to utter one's distinctive animal soundthe dog called whenever it flushed a quail to bring together in assembly by or as if by commandcalled all the night workers in for a meeting assembles, convenes, convokes, musters, summons ralliescalls in, calls out, calls up, knellsamasses, collects, gathers, groups, rounds upreassembles, reconvenes breaks up, dissolves to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurementlet's call that five feet for now, and we'll measure it out later calculates, conjectures, estimates, figures, gauges(also gages), guesses, judges, makes, places, puts, reckons, supposes concludes, deduces, extrapolates, gathers, infers, reasons, understands calibrates, measures, scalescomputes, works out to demand or request the presence or service ofrushed to call a tow truck operator when the car broke down hails, summons cites, subpoenasassembles, calls out, calls up, convenes, convokes, mustersasks, bids, invitescommands, orders, requests, requisitionsbeckons, demands, invokesbuzzes, knells, pages, rings, whistles sends for dismisses, sends (away), turns awaybanishes, boots (out), casts out, drums (out), ejects, expels, kicks out, ousts, outs, routs, runs off, throws out, turfs (out)(chiefly British) to give a name towe've decided to call the kitten "Molly" baptizes, christens, clepes(archaic), denominates, designates, dubs, entitles, labels, names, nominates, styles, terms, titles brands, stigmatizes, tagsdenotes, specifiesmiscalls, misnames, mistitlescode-names, nicknamesrechristens, relabels, renamessurnames to request the doing of by virtue of one's authoritythe union president is refusing to call a strike commands, decrees, dictates, directs, mandates, ordains, orders asks, petitions, requestsdemands, requires calls for cancels, countermands, rescinds to tell of or describe beforehandsomehow the political pundit called the race results within a mere percentage point augurs, forecasts, foretells, predicts, presages, prognosticates, prophesies, reads, vaticinates alerts, cautions, forewarns, warnsbodes, forebodes(also forbodes), portends, promisesanticipates, divines, foreknows, foreseesannounces, declares, heralds, proclaims describes, narrates, recites, recounts, relates, reports, tells |