llamamiento

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A telephone conversation.

Example: I received several calls today.

Definition: A short visit, usually for social purposes.

Example: I paid a call to a dear friend of mine.

Definition: A visit by a ship or boat to a port.

Example: The ship made a call at Southampton.

Definition: A cry or shout.

Example: He heard a call from the other side of the room.

Definition: A decision or judgement.

Example: That was a good call.

Definition: The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.

Example: That sound is the distinctive call of the cuckoo bird.

Definition: A beckoning or summoning.

Example: I had to yield to the call of the wild.

Definition: The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.

Example: I give the call to the Manager of Opposition Business.

Definition: An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.

Definition: The act of calling to the other batsman.

Definition: The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)

Definition: A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).

Definition: The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.

Definition: A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.

Example: There was a 20 dollar bet on the table, and my call was 9.

Definition: The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.

Definition: A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.

Definition: A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.

Definition: A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.

Definition: An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.

Definition: Vocation; employment; calling.

Definition: A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.

Definition: (prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: (heading) To use one's voice.

Definition: (heading) To visit.

Definition: (heading) To name, identify or describe.

Definition: (heading) Direct or indirect use of the voice.

Definition: (sometimes with for) To require, demand.

Example: He felt called to help the old man.

Definition: To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.

Definition: To demand repayment of a loan.

Definition: To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.

Example: A recursive function is one that calls itself.