Dream vs Call - What's the difference?
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Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* (Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
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A hope or wish.
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* (Martin Luther King)
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=August 5, author=Nathan Rabin
, title= A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
* (w) (1819-1885)
(lb) To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.
(lb) To hope, to wish.
(lb) To daydream.
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(lb) To envision as an imaginary experience (usually when asleep).
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*(and other bibliographic particulars) (Cowper)
*:And still they dream that they shall still succeed.
*(and other bibliographic particulars) (Dryden)
*:At length in sleep their bodies they compose, / And dreamt the future fight, and early rose.
(lb) To consider the possibility (of).
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*1599-1602 , (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet) , Act I scene 5, lines 167-8
*:There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
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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, passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}
#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.
#*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, 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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As nouns the difference between dream and call
is that dream is imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping while call is a telephone conversation.As verbs the difference between dream and call
is that dream is (lb) to see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping while call is (lb) to use one's voice .dream
English
(wikipedia dream)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . The derivation from Old English dr?am'' is controversial, since the word itself is only attested in writing in its meaning of “joy, mirth, musical sound”. Possibly there was a separate word ''dr?am meaning “images seen while sleeping”, which was avoided in literature due to potential confusion with “joy” sense, which would account for the common definition in the other Germanic languages, or the derivation may indeed simply be a strange progression from “mirth, joy, musical sound”.. Attested words for “sleeping vision” in Old English were . The verb is from (etyl) (m), possibly (see above) from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes.
- I had a dream' which was not all a ' dream .
- She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
- So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams .
- I have a dream' that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a ' dream today!
TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993), passage=Ralph Wiggum is generally employed as a bottomless fount of glorious non sequiturs, but in “I Love Lisa” he stands in for every oblivious chump who ever deluded himself into thinking that with persistence, determination, and a pure heart he can win the girl of his dreams .}}
- There sober thought pursued the amusing theme, / Till Fancy coloured it and formed a dream .
- It is not to them a mere dream , but a very real aim which they propose.
Synonyms
* (events experienced whilst asleep) sweven (archaic)Derived terms
* American dream * daydream * dreamboat * dreamcatcher * dreamland * dreamscape * dream team * dreamy * dream vision * dreamworld * live the dream * lucid dream * pipe dream * wet dreamSee also
* nightmareVerb
Derived terms
* bedream * dream up * dream onUsage notes
* "Dreamt" is less common in both US and UK English in current usage, though somewhat more prevalent in the UK than in the US. "Drempt" is quite rare, possibly just eye-dialect.References
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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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page 206
: 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.}}