Summoning vs Call - 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.
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* 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).
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(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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, title= #(lb) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
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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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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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Summoning is a related term of call.
As verbs the difference between summoning and call
is that summoning is while call is (lb) to use one's voice .As nouns the difference between summoning and call
is that summoning is the act by which somebody is summoned while call is a telephone conversation.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.}}