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# call

«call» in Mova's school dictionary: **to phone someone** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (call, calls, called, calling); noun (a call, calls)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To call is to phone someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/call/#m1)

2) To call is to shout or say loudly so someone hears. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/call/#m2)

3) To call is to give a name: «We call him Max». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/call/#m3)

4) To call on or call in is to visit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/call/#m4)

5) A call is a phone call, a shout, or a bird's cry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/call/#m5)

6) To call someone can also mean to summon them so that they come to you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/call/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

phone calls with minutes and costs; or naming something; in everyday safety, calling 911, 999, 000 or 111 in an emergency; phrases «call back», «call off» (cancel), «call out», «call names» (insult), «is called»

### examples

- Each call lasts 5 minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/call/#x1)
- A call costs 10 cents a minute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/call/#x2)
- She made 4 calls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/call/#x3)
- We call a shape with 4 equal sides a square. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/call/#x4)
- Call me when you get home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/call/#x5)
- In an emergency, call 911. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/call/#x6)
- The game was called off because of rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/call/#x7)
- Mom called us in for dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/call/#x8)
- The owl's call echoed in the woods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/call/#x9)
- It's not kind to call people names. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/call/#x10)
- But Aladdin first called the genie. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/call/#x11)

### note

Calls with minutes are a rate: cost = minutes × price. Trap: «is called» names a thing, no operation. Safety: emergency numbers are 911 (USA, Canada), 999 or 112 (UK, Ireland), 000 (Australia), 111 (New Zealand).

### In the corpora

- [A CV is a page or two listing someone's education, jobs and skills; Americans call it a résumé.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/6/)
- [Some families rent their home from a landlord; others are buying it with a huge loan from a bank called a mortgage.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/6-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills/2/)
- [Interest that grows on interest is called compound interest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/5/)
- [Borrowing always has a price called interest, so the total paid back is more than the price tag.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/2/)
- [By the end of the call there is a plan, and he says, "Right.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «call» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/call/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.