call
part of speech
verb (call, calls, called, calling); noun (a call, calls)
meaning for a pupil
1) To call is to phone someone. tree →
2) To call is to shout or say loudly so someone hears. tree →
3) To call is to give a name: «We call him Max». tree →
4) To call on or call in is to visit. tree →
5) A call is a phone call, a shout, or a bird's cry. tree →
6) To call someone can also mean to summon them so that they come to you. tree →
sense in the lessons
phone calls with minutes and costs; or naming something; in everyday safety, calling 911, 999, 000 or 111 in an emergency; phrases «call back», «call off» (cancel), «call out», «call names» (insult), «is called»
examples
- Each call lasts 5 minutes. tree →
- A call costs 10 cents a minute. tree →
- She made 4 calls. tree →
- We call a shape with 4 equal sides a square. tree →
- Call me when you get home. tree →
- In an emergency, call 911. tree →
- The game was called off because of rain. tree →
- Mom called us in for dinner. tree →
- The owl's call echoed in the woods. tree →
- It's not kind to call people names. tree →
- But Aladdin first called the genie. tree →
note
Calls with minutes are a rate: cost = minutes × price. Trap: «is called» names a thing, no operation. Safety: emergency numbers are 911 (USA, Canada), 999 or 112 (UK, Ireland), 000 (Australia), 111 (New Zealand).
In the corpora
- A CV is a page or two listing someone's education, jobs and skills; Americans call it a résumé.
- Some families rent their home from a landlord; others are buying it with a huge loan from a bank called a mortgage.
- Interest that grows on interest is called compound interest.
- Borrowing always has a price called interest, so the total paid back is more than the price tag.
- By the end of the call there is a plan, and he says, "Right.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «call» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.