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Meaning:
Noun:
- A telephone conversation.
- A beckoning or summoning.
- A cry or shout.
- A decision or judgement.
- A social visit.
- A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
- computing The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the point.
- cricket The act of calling to the other batsman.
- cricket The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
- finance: An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
- Medicine An overnight duty in the hospital.
- The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
Source: Wiktionary
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Verb:
- banking To demand repayment of a loan.
- Cricket (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions.)
- cricket (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
- finance To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
- poker: To match or equal the amount of poker chips in the pot as the player that bet.
- (''reflexively'': '''to be called''') Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
- To contact by telephone.
- To cry or shout.
- To name or refer to.
- To pay a social visit.
- To request, summon, or beckon.
- To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
- computing To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
- transitive To declare in advance.
- transitive To predict.
- (''with an object preceded by the preposition'' demand.
Source: Wiktionary
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