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CALL IN
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make a phone call
Example:
call in sick
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "call in" is one way to...):
call; call up; phone; ring; telephone (get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone)
Domain category:
telephone; telephony (transmitting speech at a distance)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s Adjective
Derivation:
call-in (a telephone call to a radio station or a television station in which the caller participates in the on-going program)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Summon to a particular activity or employment
Example:
Experts were called in
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "call in" is one way to...):
call; send for (order, request, or command to come)
Verb group:
call in (summon to enter)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 3
Meaning:
Summon to enter
Example:
The nurse called in the next patient
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "call in" is one way to...):
Verb group:
call in (summon to a particular activity or employment)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 4
Meaning:
Cause to be returned
Example:
The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt
Synonyms:
call back; call in; recall; withdraw
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "call in" is one way to...):
take (take into one's possession)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "call in"):
decommission (withdraw from active service)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 5
Meaning:
Demand payment of (a loan)
Example:
Call a loan
Synonyms:
call; call in
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "call in" is one way to...):
demand; exact (claim as due or just)
Verb group:
call (require the presentation of for redemption before maturation)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 6
Meaning:
Take a player out of a game in order to exchange for another player
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "call in" is one way to...):
move out; remove; take out (cause to leave)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 7
Meaning:
Pay a brief visit
Example:
The mayor likes to call on some of the prominent citizens
Synonyms:
call; call in; visit
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "call in" is one way to...):
get together; meet (get together socially or for a specific purpose)
Verb group:
call (make a stop in a harbour)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "call in"):
see (go to see for professional or business reasons)
see (go to see for a social visit)
come by; drop by; drop in (visit informally and spontaneously)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Context examples:
Well, I feigned courtship of Miss Ingram, because I wished to render you as madly in love with me as I was with you; and I knew jealousy would be the best ally I could call in for the furtherance of that end.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The ten days that follow the new moon are a good time to begin repairs and to call in the contractors or painters.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
If Jane does not get well soon, we will call in Mr. Perry.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
But tomorrow I think I shall certainly be able to call in Berkeley Street, and be introduced to your friend Mrs. Jennings.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
"His head is what you call in plane with the horizon. It is a difficult thing that we go to do, and we do not want no peoples to watch us if so it may."
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I was struck with the utmost fear and astonishment, and ran to hide myself in the corn, whence I saw him at the top of the stile looking back into the next field on the right hand, and heard him call in a voice many degrees louder than a speaking-trumpet: but the noise was so high in the air, that at first I certainly thought it was thunder.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
One other short call in Harley Street, in which Elinor received her brother's congratulations on their travelling so far towards Barton without any expense, and on Colonel Brandon's being to follow them to Cleveland in a day or two, completed the intercourse of the brother and sisters in town;—and a faint invitation from Fanny, to come to Norland whenever it should happen to be in their way, which of all things was the most unlikely to occur, with a more warm, though less public, assurance, from John to Elinor, of the promptitude with which he should come to see her at Delaford, was all that foretold any meeting in the country.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
He expressed great pleasure in meeting Elinor, told her that he had been just going to call in Berkeley Street, and, assuring her that Fanny would be very glad to see her, invited her to come in.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I sent no answer to Marianne, intending by that to preserve myself from her farther notice; and for some time I was even determined not to call in Berkeley Street;—but at last, judging it wiser to affect the air of a cool, common acquaintance than anything else, I watched you all safely out of the house one morning, and left my name.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
