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CALL FOR
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Express the need or desire for
Example:
when you call, always ask for Mary
Synonyms:
ask for; bespeak; call for; quest; request
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "call for" is one way to...):
communicate; pass; pass along; pass on; put across (transmit information)
Verb group:
call for; invite (request the participation or presence of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "call for"):
book; hold; reserve (arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance)
ask; ask out; invite out; take out (make a date)
call (call a meeting; invite or command to meet)
ask over; ask round; invite (invite someone to one's house)
arrogate; claim; lay claim (demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to)
beg (ask to obtain free)
desire (express a desire for)
ask in; invite (ask to enter)
call for; invite (request the participation or presence of)
claim (ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example)
demand (ask to be informed of)
order (make a request for something)
ask (make a request or demand for something to somebody)
encore (request an encore, from a performer)
petition (write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing)
demand (request urgently and forcefully)
appeal; invoke (request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection)
supplicate (ask for humbly or earnestly, as in prayer)
apply (ask (for something))
beg; solicit; tap (make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently)
reserve (obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance)
challenge (ask for identification)
beg off; excuse (ask for permission to be released from an engagement)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 2
Meaning:
Request the participation or presence of
Example:
The organizers invite submissions of papers for the conference
Synonyms:
call for; invite
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "call for" is one way to...):
ask for; bespeak; call for; quest; request (express the need or desire for)
Verb group:
ask for; bespeak; call for; quest; request (express the need or desire for)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 3
Meaning:
Gather or collect
Example:
They pick up our trash twice a week
Synonyms:
call for; collect; gather up; pick up
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "call for" is one way to...):
acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 4
Meaning:
Require as useful, just, or proper
Example:
This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent
Synonyms:
ask; call for; demand; involve; necessitate; need; postulate; require; take
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Verb group:
claim; exact; take (take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "call for"):
claim; exact; take (take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs)
govern (require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood)
draw (require a specified depth for floating)
cost (require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice)
cry for; cry out for (need badly or desperately)
compel (necessitate or exact)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Context examples:
But there is no call for haste.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Our findings call for the careful evaluation and reinterpretation of experiments on 'spin-orbit physics' and magnetism when the interfaces or surfaces of materials with platinum group atoms are involved.
(Iridium 'loses its identity' when interfaced with nickel, National Science Foundation)
At twelve o'clock, they were to call for her in Pulteney Street; and “Remember—twelve o'clock,” was her parting speech to her new friend.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
In half-an-hour the carrier was to call for it to take it to Lowton, whither I myself was to repair at an early hour the next morning to meet the coach.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He soon joined them again, successful, of course; Lady Dalrymple would be most happy to take them home, and would call for them in a few minutes.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than his head would carry; and then he would sometimes sit and sing his wicked, old, wild sea-songs, minding nobody; but sometimes he would call for glasses round and force all the trembling company to listen to his stories or bear a chorus to his singing.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Elinor advised her to lie down again, and for a moment she did so; but no attitude could give her ease; and in restless pain of mind and body she moved from one posture to another, till growing more and more hysterical, her sister could with difficulty keep her on the bed at all, and for some time was fearful of being constrained to call for assistance.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
"Just as she likes, of course. The tale will be out next week. Will you call for the money, or shall I send it?" asked Mr. Dashwood, who felt a natural desire to know who his new contributor might be.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
There was no bar-keeper upon whom to call for drinks, no small boy to send around the corner for a can of beer and by means of that social fluid start the amenities of friendship flowing.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
To-morrow in the morning early you call for me, and we come together to see our pretty miss, so much more strong for my 'spell' which I have work.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
