call

1. (heading) To reach out with one's voice.Examples: "That person is hurt; call for help!"; "So they called for Rooms; and he ſhewed them one for Christiana and her Children and Mercy, and another for Mr. Great-heart and the old Gentleman."intransitive

2. (heading) To reach out with one's voice.Examples: ""Supper's ready," called Dad from the kitchen."; "If you heare a child crie in the night you must call to the nurſe and bid her ſtil it."; "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!"Synonyms: holler, yell, call, cry, holler, roar, roop, screamintransitive

3. (heading) To reach out with one's voice.Examples: "to call the roll of a military company"; "Not ballad-ſinger plac'd above the croud, / Sings with a note ſo ſhrilling ſweet and loud, / Nor pariſh clerk who calls the pſalm ſo clear, / Like Bowzybeus ſooths th' attentive ear."transitive

4. (heading) To reach out with one's voice.Examples: "Why don’t you call me in the morning?"; "Why don’t you call tomorrow?"; "There they waited until after eleven, then Paulvitch took down the receiver of their telephone. He called a number."Synonyms: drop a line, ring, get on the horn, give someone a ring, give someone a bell, telephone, call, call upambitransitive

5. (heading) To reach out with one's voice.Examples: "Take not away the Taper, leaue it burning: / And if thou canſt awake by foure o’th’clock, / I prythee call me: Sleepe hath ceiz’d me wholly."Synonyms: wake up, arouse, awake, awaken, bring round, cry, knock up, rousetransitive

6. (heading) To reach out with one's voice.Examples: "They called I Got Rhythm, and turned to me again for a solo, and I said what?"; "Jeff Castleman and Rufus Jones were in position when they went out, and he immediately called Satin Doll."; "I thought he forgot all about it, but late in the set he called St. Louis Blues."transitive