Crossword clues for called
called
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Call \Call\ (k[add]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Called (k[add]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Calling] [OE. callen, AS. ceallian; akin to Icel. & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen to talk, prate, OHG. kall[=o]n to call; cf. Gr. ghry`ein to speak, sing, Skr. gar to praise. Cf. Garrulous.]
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To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.
Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain
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To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious character; -- often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church. Paul . . . called to be an apostle --Rom. i.
The Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
--Acts xiii.
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To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with together; as, the President called Congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen.
Now call we our high court of Parliament.
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To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name.
If you would but call me Rosalind.
--Shak.And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.
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5. To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate.
What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
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To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work.
[The] army is called seven hundred thousand men.
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To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of. [Obs.]
This speech calls him Spaniard.
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To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off; as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a military company.
No parish clerk who calls the psalm so clear.
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To invoke; to appeal to.
I call God for a witness.
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To rouse from sleep; to awaken. If thou canst awake by four o' the clock. I prithee call me. Sleep hath seized me wholly. --Shak. To call a bond, to give notice that the amount of the bond will be paid. To call a party (Law), to cry aloud his name in open court, and command him to come in and perform some duty requiring his presence at the time on pain of what may befall him. To call back, to revoke or retract; to recall; to summon back. To call down, to pray for, as blessing or curses. To call forth, to bring or summon to action; as, to call forth all the faculties of the mind. To call in,
To collect; as, to call in debts or money; ar to withdraw from cirulation; as, to call in uncurrent coin.
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To summon to one's side; to invite to come together; as, to call in neighbors. To call (any one) names, to apply contemptuous names (to any one). To call off, to summon away; to divert; as, to call off the attention; to call off workmen from their employment. To call out.
To summon to fight; to challenge.
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To summon into service; as, to call out the militia. To call over, to recite separate particulars in order, as a roll of names. To call to account, to demand explanation of. To call to mind, to recollect; to revive in memory. To call to order, to request to come to order; as:
A public meeting, when opening it for business.
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A person, when he is transgressing the rules of debate. To call to the bar, to admit to practice in courts of law. To call up.
To bring into view or recollection; as to call up the image of deceased friend.
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To bring into action or discussion; to demand the consideration of; as, to call up a bill before a legislative body.
Syn: To name; denominate; invite; bid; summon; convoke; assemble; collect; exhort; warn; proclaim; invoke; appeal to; designate.
Usage: To Call, Convoke, Summon. Call is the generic term; as, to call a public meeting. To convoke is to require the assembling of some organized body of men by an act of authority; as, the king convoked Parliament. To summon is to require attendance by an act more or less stringent anthority; as, to summon a witness.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: call)
WordNet
adj. given or having a specified name; "they called his name Jesus"; "forces...which Empedocles called `love' and `hate'"; "an actor named Harold Lloyd"; "a building in Cardiff named the Temple of Peace" [syn: named]
known or spoken of as; "though she is named Katherine, she is called Kitty" [syn: known as]
Usage examples of "called".
The idea that Skidians could have been as unsophisticated and primitive as the offworlders at some time in the past called into question all he had believed about his own illustrious ancestry.
The fat one called Mulgoon who had delivered the food and another one that Bruce couldn't recall having seen before.
The one called Mulgoon opened his mouth and then, seeming to think the better of it, closed it again.
The tobacco like material was called agbar and demonstrations of its use caused Bruce to double up with laughter.
The Skidian called Cyprus pushed his way past the two grim figures and said gravely, as if passing a sentence, "It is time for your presentation to the senate, these guards will escort you.
The room was bare except for the bed, and painted in what in a mental institution would be called soothing green.
Her references to the fact that Stim, rugby, or whatever the game was called looked like a bastardized form of American football, and Bruce's towering rage at this comment, undoubtedly contributed to her making herself scarce for a while.
Then Bruce walked across the space between the wall around the garden and the storage area he called a shed, pulling the free end of the metal string and attached it to the wall.
Staring at the organic material that Bruce called meat, Cyprus with a sudden clarity of thought, realized that if this material proved incompatible with his digestive system then not only was he a dead man, but so was Skid.
The 'meat' as Cyprus as Bruce called the material, was perfectly safe for him to eat.
He did not follow how Bruce's effort was important to the development of the organic plant, or 'farm' as Bruce called it.
Or the ivops they cautiously trailed, once Bruce called in his dogs and stopped to make sure none of the main herd tried to join the small breakaway group.
After a lazy breakfast, putting off the time when he would have to start the day's work, he went and called on Oridor and Cyprus.
Bruce called after his retreating figure, and immediately felt a whole lot better.
Bruce called belligerently for another beer, which was delivered by drone.