call

Related to call: cool, call option

call

1. verb To challenge or confront someone. If your intern keeps coming in late, you need to call her.
2. noun A prediction or guess. Whew, look at all that traffic over there! Not taking the highway sure was a good call.
3. noun The initial effects of a drug. No, I got the call on that right away—I feel great!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

call

1. n. a decision; a prediction. The market behaved just as you said it would. Good call.
2. tv. to challenge someone. I called him, but he ignored me.
3. n. the early effects of a drug; the beginning of a rush; a rush. (Drugs.) You may not get the call on this stuff for twenty minutes or more.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

call

in/into question
To raise doubts about.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
See:
  • (it's) time to call it a day
  • (it's) time to call it a night
  • (Someone or something) called, they want their (something) back!
  • (something) to call (one's) own
  • (well,) butter my butt and call me a biscuit
  • a call of nature
  • a call to arms
  • a close call
  • a close shave
  • a close shave/call
  • a place to call own
  • a port of call
  • a wake-up call
  • above and beyond
  • above and beyond the call of duty
  • answer nature's call
  • answer the call
  • answer the call of nature
  • anyone's/anybody's call
  • at (one's) beck and call
  • at beck and call
  • at one's beck and call
  • at somebody's beck and call
  • at someone's beck and call
  • bad call
  • be (someone's) call
  • be anyone's/anybody's call
  • be at (one's) beck and call
  • be at someone's beck and call
  • be taking calls
  • beck and call
  • beyond the call of duty
  • booty call
  • bring (one) to task
  • bring (someone or something) into question
  • bring (something) into play
  • bring someone to heel
  • bring to mind
  • bring/call somebody/something to mind
  • bring/call/put something into play
  • bring/call/throw something into question
  • call
  • call (a group) together
  • call (all) the shots
  • call (one) forward
  • call (one) names
  • call (one) on (something)
  • call (one) on the carpet
  • call (one) over
  • call (one) to attention
  • call (one) to task
  • call (one's) bluff
  • call (one's) shots
  • call (oneself) a (something)
  • call (someone or something) into question
  • call (someone or something) to (one's) attention
  • call (someone) to heel
  • call (something) into play
  • call (something) square
  • call (the) roll
  • call a halt
  • call a halt to
  • call a halt to (something)
  • call a meeting
  • call a meeting to order and call the meeting to order
  • call a spade a spade
  • call a spade a spade, to
  • call a/the meeting to order
  • call about
  • call about (something)
  • call again
  • call all the shots
  • call an audible
  • call around
  • call at (some place)
  • call at some place
  • call attention to
  • call attention to (someone or something)
  • call away
  • call back
  • call balls and strikes
  • call bluff
  • call by (a name)
  • call by a name
  • call down
  • call Earl
  • call for
  • call for (someone or something)
  • call forth
  • call forward
  • call girl
  • call hogs
  • call house
  • call hughie
  • call in
  • call in (one's) chips
  • call in (one's) marker
  • call in question
  • call in question, to
  • call in sick
  • call in your chips
  • call in(to)
  • call into
  • call into question
  • call it a day
  • call it a day, to
  • call it a draw
  • call it a night
  • call it a wash
  • call it even
  • call it quits
  • call it quits, to
  • call it/them as (one) sees it/them
  • call it/them like (one) sees it/them
  • call my service
  • call names
  • call no man happy till he dies
  • call of duty
  • call of nature
  • call off
  • call off the dogs
  • call off the/(one's) dogs
  • call on
  • call on (someone or something)
  • call on the carpet
  • call one's own
  • call out
  • call over
  • call Ralph
  • call roll
  • call Ruth
  • call shotgun
  • call somebody names
  • call somebody to account
  • call somebody's bluff
  • call someone names
  • call someone out
  • call someone's bluff
  • call someone's bluff, to
  • call something your own
  • call square
  • call the
  • call the burn ward
  • call the dogs off
  • call the shots
  • call the shots/the tune
  • call the tune
  • call the wambulance
  • call time on (something)
  • call time on something
  • call to
  • call to (one)
  • call to account
  • call to attention
  • call to mind
  • call to order
  • call to the bar
  • call together
  • call up
  • call upon
  • call upon (someone or something)
  • call your own
  • call yourself a teacher, friend, etc.?
  • callback
  • called to straw
  • call-girl
  • Can I call you?
  • Can I have (one) call you?
  • can't call (one's) soul (one's) own
  • can't call (one's) time (one's) own
  • can't call one's soul one's own
  • can't call soul own
  • catcall
  • cattle call
  • CF
  • CF The CF is from the so-called NATO Phonetic Alphabet.
  • Charlie Foxtrot
  • clarion call
  • close call
  • close call/shave, a
  • close shave
  • cold call
  • Could I call you?
  • Could I have call you?
  • crank call
  • crank letter
  • cry ruth
  • desperate times call for desperate measures
  • Don’t call us, we’ll call you
  • don't call us, we'll call you
  • Don't call us, we'll call you.
  • drastic times call for drastic measures
  • duty calls
  • final call
  • first port of call
  • get catcalled
  • give (one) a call
  • give a ring
  • Give me a call
  • go above and beyond duty
  • go above and beyond the call of duty
  • good call
  • Good call!
  • have a close call
  • have a close shave
  • have first call
  • have first call on (something)
  • he who pays the piper calls the tune
  • here's a dime, call someone who cares
  • I'll call back later
  • issue a call for
  • issue a call for (something)
  • it's anyone's/anybody's call
  • I've never heard it called that before
  • judgment call
  • last call
  • let's call it a day
  • let's call it a draw
  • let's call it a wash
  • make the call
  • Many are called but few are chosen
  • many are called, but few are chosen
  • nature calls
  • nature’s call
  • nature's call
  • no call for
  • no call for (something)
  • no salesman will call
  • not able to call (one's) time (one's) own
  • not able to call time own
  • not have a minute to call (one's) own
  • on call
  • on the carpet, to be/call/put
  • pay (someone or something) a call
  • pay a call
  • pay a call on
  • pay a call on (someone or something)
  • pay a call to (someone or something)
  • place to call (one's) own
  • port of call
  • put (something) in will-call
  • put (something) into play
  • put in layaway
  • put out a call for (someone or something)
  • so-called
  • somebody call the wambulance
  • someone call the wambulance
  • take (one) to task
  • taking calls
  • throw (something) into question
  • Time to call it a day
  • Time to call it a night
  • too close to call
  • tough call
  • wake-up call
  • what do you call (someone)/it
  • what-d'you-call-him/-her/-it/-them
  • Who calls the shots here?
  • within call
  • You call this (something)?
  • You called?
  • your call is important to us
References in classic literature
There may be other sorts of quality, but those that are most properly so called have, we may safely say, been enumerated.
For instance, the name given to the runner or boxer, who is so called in virtue of an inborn capacity, is not derived from that of any quality; for lob those capacities have no name assigned to them.
Categories
And has this Creature sides, as well as angles or what you call "terminal Points"?
But, by the way, not what YOU call sides, but what WE call sides.
Flatland
When David shed his curls at the hair-dresser's, I am told, he said good-bye to them without a tremor, though Mary has never been quite the same bright creature since, so he despises the sheep as they run from their shearer and calls out tauntingly, "Cowardy, cowardy custard!" But when the man grips them between his legs David shakes a fist at him for using such big scissors.
That was what we called him, because he always talked to us of a lovely place called Salford where he had been born.
The Little White Bird
From memory it is an easy step to what are called "ideas"--not in the Platonic sense, but in that of Locke, Berkeley and Hume, in which they are opposed to "impressions." You may be conscious of a friend either by seeing him or by "thinking" of him; and by "thought" you can be conscious of objects which cannot be seen, such as the human race, or physiology.
Besides ways of being conscious there are other things that would ordinarily be called "mental," such as desire and pleasure and pain.
The Analysis of Mind
I asked our guides whose dominion this was in, and they told me this was a kind of border that might be called no man's land, being a part of Great Karakathy, or Grand Tartary: that, however, it was all reckoned as belonging to China, but that there was no care taken here to preserve it from the inroads of thieves, and therefore it was reckoned the worst desert in the whole march, though we were to go over some much larger.
But my old man had the third Tartar to deal with still; and seeing he did not fly, as he expected, nor come on to fight him, as he apprehended, but stood stock still, the old man stood still too, and fell to work with his tackle to charge his pistol again: but as soon as the Tartar saw the pistol away he scoured, and left my pilot, my champion I called him afterwards, a complete victory.
Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
'Well,' says the younger brother, 'but your neighbours, as you call them, may be even with you, for beauty will steal a husband sometimes in spite of money, and when the maid chances to be handsomer than the mistress, she oftentimes makes as good a market, and rides in a coach before her.'
I have been told that in one of neighbour nations, whether it be in France or where else I know not, they have an order from the king, that when any criminal is condemned, either to die, or to the galleys, or to be transported, if they leave any children, as such are generally unprovided for, by the poverty or forfeiture of their parents, so they are immediately taken into the care of the Government, and put into a hospital called the House of Orphans, where they are bred up, clothed, fed, taught, and when fit to go out, are placed out to trades or to services, so as to be well able to provide for themselves by an honest, industrious behaviour.
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
"My dear," Harley said to Villa at the conclusion of one such singing, "it's fortunate for him that you are not an animal trainer, or, rather, I suppose, it would be better called 'trained animal show-woman'; for you'd be topping the bill in all the music-halls and vaudeville houses of the world."
Jerry of the Islands
But, though tranquillity was restored above-stairs, it was not so below; where my landlady, highly resenting the injury done to the beauty of her husband by the flesh-spades of Mrs Honour, called aloud for revenge and justice.
The History of Tom Jones a Foundling
On reaching the second chain, called the Bighorn Mountains, where the river forced its impetuous way through a precipitous defile, with cascades and rapids, the travellers were obliged to leave its banks, and traverse the mountains by a rugged and frightful route, emphatically called the "Bad Pass." Descending the opposite side, they again made for the river banks; and about the middle of August, reached the point below the rapids where the river becomes navigable for boats.
Adventures of Captain Bonneville USA in the Rocky Mountains and