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CALL AT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Enter a harbor
Example:
the ship called in Athens
Synonyms:
call at; out in
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "call at" is one way to...):
come in; enter; get in; get into; go in; go into; move into (to come or go into)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Context examples:
But, as I knew I could not come next day, when I should have a good deal to prepare in the evening, Mr. Micawber arranged that he would call at Doctor Strong's in the course of the morning (having a presentiment that the remittance would arrive by that post), and propose the day after, if it would suit me better.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He proposes to call at about quarter past six to-morrow evening, if Dr. Trevelyan will make it convenient to be at home.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Ah, yes, I hear these naughty ones go to vex you, Mees Marsch. If so again, call at me and I come," he said, with a threatening frown that delighted the little wretches.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
"I hope I shall remember, in future," said Lady Russell, as soon as they were reseated in the carriage, "not to call at Uppercross in the Christmas holidays."
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
This afternoon a carrier's cart with two men made a call at the empty house whose grounds abut on ours—the house to which, you will remember, the patient twice ran away.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
“Should I be too early to see your master, Mr. Silas Brown, if I were to call at five o’clock to-morrow morning?”
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A call at Meg's, and a refreshing sniff and sip at the Daisy and Demijohn, still further fortified her for the tete-a-tete, but when she saw a stalwart figure looming in the distance, she had a strong desire to turn about and run away.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
When I have made up my mind, I have made it; and Henrietta seemed entirely to have made up hers to call at Winthrop to-day; and yet, she was as near giving it up, out of nonsensical complaisance!
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
