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To call for

Call \Call\, v. i.

  1. To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; -- sometimes with to.

    You must call to the nurse.
    --Shak.

    The angel of God called to Hagar.
    --Gen. xxi. 17.

  2. To make a demand, requirement, or request.

    They called for rooms, and he showed them one.
    --Bunyan.

  3. To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders. He ordered her to call at the house once a week. --Temple. To call for

    1. To demand; to require; as, a crime calls for punishment; a survey, grant, or deed calls for the metes and bounds, or the quantity of land, etc., which it describes.

    2. To give an order for; to request. ``Whenever the coach stopped, the sailor called for more ale.'' --Marryat. To call on, To call upon,

      1. To make a short visit to; as, call on a friend.

      2. To appeal to; to invite; to request earnestly; as, to call upon a person to make a speech.

    3. To solicit payment, or make a demand, of a debt.

    4. To invoke or play to; to worship; as, to call upon God.

      To call out To call or utter loudly; to brawl.

Usage examples of "to call for".

It was the man who had tried to call for the sentry an hour back, and Pine had him out also.

I didn't want a repeat performance of being trapped in my apartment, not able to call for help.

He smiled and started to call for a phone when he realized it was four in the morning.

The leader of the troop, who'd been a very junior officer when he led his own band of refugees south looking for any shelter from the Boman storm, waved his battle flag to call for a halt.

Even before his new team of lawyers went to work, the press began to call for a reexamination of his murder conviction.

He raised his arms as if to call for even deeper silence, and when he spoke, the exquisite acoustics of the temple square carried his voice clearly to the farthest ear.

Bogess' description of the effectiveness of the shield wall had been scoffed at so loudly by the raucous crowd that the chairman of the Council had been forced to call for order.

Apparently they had not even a radio available to call for help from Unith.

The driver used an emergency roadside phone to call for another bus.

So much of this could be dealt with by calling Chinthliss and teaming up with him, but his friend and mentor had problems of his own, and was just as likely to call for Tannim's help.