Call vs Set - What's the difference?
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A telephone conversation.
A short visit, usually for social purposes.
* Cowper
A cry or shout.
A decision or judgement.
The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
A beckoning or summoning.
* Addison
* Macaulay
(finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
(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.)
A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).
* 1978 , , The Practice , Harper & Row, ISBN 9780060131944:
* 2007 , William D. Bailey, You Will Never Run Out of Jesus , CrossHouse Publishing, ISBN 978-0-929292-24-3:
* 2008 , Jamal M. Bullocks et al., Plastic Surgery Emergencies: Principles and Techniques , Thieme, ISBN 978-1-58890-670-0,
* 2009 , Steven Louis Shelley, A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting , page 171:
(computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
(poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
(nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
A pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.
An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
Vocation; employment; calling.
A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
(lb) To use one's voice.
#(lb) To request, summon, or beckon.
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#*(John Bunyan) (1628-1688)
#*:They called for rooms, and he showed them one.
#(lb) To cry or shout.
#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:You must call to the nurse.
#*(Rudyard Kipling) (1865-1936), Merrow Down
#*:For far — oh, very far behind, / So far she cannot call to him, / Comes Tegumai alone to find / The daughter that was all to him!
#(lb) To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
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#*(John Gay) (1685-1732)
#*:no parish clerk who calls the psalm so clear
# To contact by telephone.
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#(lb) To declare in advance.
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#To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:If thou canst awake by four o' the clock, / I prithee call me. Sleep hath seized me wholly.
To visit.
#To pay a (social) visit.
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#* (1628–1699)
#*:He ordered her to call at the house once a week.
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#To stop at a station or port.
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(lb) To name, identify or describe.
#(lb) To name or refer to.
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#*:The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
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, title= #(lb) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= #(lb) To predict.
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#To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
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#*(John Brougham) (1814-1880)
#*:[The] army is called seven hundred thousand men.
#(lb) To disclose the class or character of; to identify.
#*(Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)
#*:This speech calls him Spaniard.
Direct or indirect use of the voice.
#(lb) (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.
#(lb) To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
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To require, .
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
To demand repayment of a loan.
To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
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To put (something) down, to rest.
To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
* Bible, Genesis iv. 15
To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxviii. 1
* Bible, Matthew x. 35
* Coleridge
(dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
To determine or settle.
To adjust.
To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
To arrange with dishes and cutlery.
To introduce or describe.
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To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
To prepare (a stage or film set).
To fit (someone) up in a situation.
To arrange (type).
To devise and assign (work) to.
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, title= (volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
To solidify.
To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
(bridge) To defeat a contract.
To begin to move; to go forth.
* c. 1599 , (William Shakespeare),
(of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
* 1906 , Canada. Dept. of Agriculture. Fruit Branch, Fruit crop report
(intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
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, title= To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
(hunting, ambitransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
(obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
* Hammond
(ambitransitive) To fit music to words.
* Dryden
(ambitransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
* Old proverb
To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
To place or fix in a setting.
* Dryden
To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
To extend and bring into position; to spread.
To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
(masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
(obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
* Shakespeare
To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
* Dryden
* Wordsworth
(obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at .
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
(Scotland) To suit; to become.
A punch for setting nails in wood.
A device for receiving broadcast radio waves; a radio or television.
A sett; a hole made and lived in by a badger.
(horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
(obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
(engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
(piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
(printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
A young oyster when first attached.
Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
A series of, a group of.
Fixed in position.
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, title= Rigid, solidified.
Ready, prepared.
Intent, determined (to do something).
Prearranged.
Fixed in one’s opinion.
(of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
A rudimentary fruit.
The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
* Tennyson
* Shakespeare
(literally, and, figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
A matching collection of similar things.
A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
An object made up of several parts.
(set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
Set theory.
A group of people, usually meeting socially.
The scenery for a film or play.
(dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
(exercise) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
* 1974 , Charles Gaines & George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding , page 22.
(tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
(volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
(volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
(music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
(music) A drum kit, a drum set.
(UK, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
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(poker, slang) Three of a kind]] in poker. In [[w:community card poker, community card games, the term is usually reserved for a situation in which a pair in a player's hand is matched by a single card on the board. Compare with trips''. Weisenberg, Michael (2000) ''
To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
* 2008 , Patricia Murphy, ?Robert McCormick, Knowledge and Practice: Representations and Identities
*:In setted' classes, students are brought together because they are believed to be of similar 'ability'. Yet, '''setted lessons are often conducted as though students are not only similar, but ''identical —in terms of ability, preferred learning style and pace of working.
* 2002 , Jo Boaler, Experiencing School Mathematics: Traditional and Reform Approaches and Their Impact on Student Learning
*:At Amber Hill, setting was a high-profile concept, and the students were frequently reminded of the set to which they belonged.
As a noun call
is a telephone conversation.As a verb call
is (lb) to use one's voice .As a numeral set is
seven.call
English
(wikipedia call)Noun
(en noun)- I received several phone calls today.
- I received several calls today.
- I paid a call to a dear friend of mine.
- the baker's punctual call
- He heard a call from the other side of the room.
- That was a good call .
- That sound is the distinctive call of the cuckoo bird.
- I had to yield to the call of the wild.
- Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity.
- running into danger without any call of duty
- page 48: “Mondays would be great, especially after a weekend of call .”
- page 56: “ I’ve got call tonight, and all weekend, but I’ll be off tomorrow to help you some.”
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: I took general-surgery call' at Bossier Medical Center and asked special permission to take general-medical '''call''', which was gladly given away by the older staff members: . You would be surprised at how many surgical cases came out of medical ' call .
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: My first night of primary medical call was greeted about midnight with a very ill 30-year-old lady who had a temperature of 103 degrees.
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- We attempted to include all topics that we ourselves have faced while taking plastic surgery call at the affiliated hospitals in the Texas Medical Center, one of the largest medical centers in the world, which sees over 100,000 patients per day.
- The columns in the second rectangle show fewer hours, but part of that is due to the fact that there's a division between a work call' and a show ' call .
- There was a 20 dollar bet on the table, and my call was 9.
Quotations
* 2007 , Latina , volume 11, page 101: *: We actually have a call tomorrow, which is a Sunday, right after my bridal shower. I have to make enchiladas for 10 people!Derived terms
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(en verb)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=“I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call' him, will get on, but I do know that if you '''call''' my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs ' called a livery.
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic
The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.}}
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoDerived terms
(Terms derived from the verb "call") * becall * call a spade a spade * call after * call by * call back * call down * call for * call in * call into question * call it a day * call it quits * call off * call on * call out * call round * call someone's bluff * call the shots * call the tune * call time * call to account * call to the Bar * call up * call upon * calling * miscallStatistics
* 1000 English basic words ----set
English
Etymology 1
* From (etyl) . * From (etyl) .Verb
- I have set my heart on running the marathon.
- The Lord set a mark upon Cain.
- The Lord thy God will set thee on high.
- I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother.
- Every incident sets him thinking.
- to set a coach in the mud
- An incident which happened about this time will set the characters of these two lads more fairly before the discerning reader than is in the power of the longest dissertation.
- This crossword was set by Araucaria.
Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting .}}
- to set milk for cheese
- The king is set from London, and the scene is now transported, gentles, to Southampton
- In the Annapolis Valley, in spite of an irregular bloom, the fruit has set well and has, as yet, been little affected by scab.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.}}
- The dog sets the bird.
- Your dog sets well.
- If he sets industriously and sincerely to perform the commands of Christ, he can have no ground of doubting but it shall prove successful to him.
- Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
- (Shakespeare)
- to set pear trees in an orchard
- Sow dry, and set wet.
- (Francis Bacon)
- The current sets''' to the north; the tide '''sets to the windward.
- to set a precious stone in a border of metal
- to set glass in a sash
- And him too rich a jewel to be set / In vulgar metal for a vulgar use.
- to set (that is, to hone) a razor
- to set a saw
- to set the sails of a ship
- to set a psalm
- (Fielding)
- to set a broken bone
- I have set my life upon a cast, / And I will stand the hazard of the die.
- High on their heads, with jewels richly set , / Each lady wore a radiant coronet.
- pastoral dales thin set with modern farms
- Be you contented, wearing now the garland, / To have a son set your decrees at naught.
- I do not set my life at a pin's fee.
- to set''' a good example; to '''set lessons to be learned
- It sets him ill.
Derived terms
* reset * set about * set against * set ahead * set apart * set-aside * set a spell * set back * set by * set down * set foot * set forth * set forward * set in * set in motion * set in stone * set off * set on * set on a pedestal * set on fire * set one’s heart on * set out * set straight * set the cat among the pigeons * set the scene * set the table * set to * set upNoun
(wikipedia set) (en noun)- nail set
- television set
- We will in France, by God's grace, play a set / Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard.
- That was but civil war, an equal set .
- the set of a spring
Adjective
(en adjective)Ian Sample
Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains, passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
Synonyms
* determined, intent * (prearranged) dictated, prearranged, predetermined, prescribed, specified * (sense, fixed in one's opinion) fixed, rigidDerived terms
* heavyset, heavy-set * nail set * mindset * moonset * offset * outset * photoset * preset * quickset * set-aside * saw set * set back * setback * set chisel * set for life * sethood * set-in * setlist * setter * set-to * sunset * television set * thickset * trendsetter * typeset * unset * upsetEtymology 2
From (etyl) set, sete, . See (l).Noun
(en noun)- the set of day
- The weary sun hath made a golden set .
- Here and there, amongst individuals alive to the particular evils of the age, and watching the very set of the current, there may have been even a more systematic counteraction applied to the mischief. — Thomas De Quincey.
- a set of tables
- a set of tools
- a set of steps
- the country set
- This is the fourth set of benchpresses.
- He plays the set on Saturdays.
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