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To use the telephone to speak with someone. To use a word or name to describe someone or something in a particular way.

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Usage examples (53)
  • I tried to call my mom, but she wasn't home.
  • The salesman's call on a customer
  • He was ejected for protesting the call
  • call a football game
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  • When she saw the caul (part of the membrane around a fetus), she dropped it in a cawl (wooden basket) and went to call (to phone) the doctor.
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