Call vs. Gall

Callnoun

A telephone conversation.

Callnoun

A short visit, usually for social purposes.

Callnoun

(nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.

Callnoun

A cry or shout.

Callnoun

A decision or judgement.

Callnoun

The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.

Callnoun

A beckoning or summoning.

Callnoun

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

Callnoun

(finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.

Callnoun

(cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.

Callnoun

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

Callnoun

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

Callnoun

(computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.

Callnoun

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

Callnoun

(poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.

Callnoun

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

Callnoun

(nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.

Callnoun

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

Callnoun

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

Callnoun

(archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.

Callnoun

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.

Callnoun

A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.

Callverb

(heading) To use one's voice.

Callverb

(intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon.

Callverb

(intransitive) To cry or shout.

Callverb

(transitive) To utter in a loud or distinct voice.

Callverb

To contact by telephone.

Callverb

(transitive) To declare in advance.

Callverb

To rouse from sleep; to awaken.

Callverb

To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.

Callverb

To visit.

Callverb

To pay a (social) visit often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again.

Callverb

To stop at a station or port.

Callverb

(heading) To name, identify or describe.

Callverb

(ditransitive) To name or refer to.

Callverb

(in passive) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.

Callverb

(transitive) To predict.

Callverb

To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.

Callverb

(obsolete) To disclose the class or character of; to identify.

Callverb

Direct or indirect use of the voice.

Callverb

(cricket) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.

Callverb

(of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).

Callverb

To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.

Callverb

To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.)

Callverb

(transitive) To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.

Callverb

To require, demand.

Callverb

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

Callverb

To demand repayment of a loan.

Callverb

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

Callverb

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

Callverb

To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious character; - often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church.

Callverb

To invite or command to meet; to convoke; - often with together; as, the President called Congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen.

Callverb

To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name.

Callverb

To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate.

Callverb

To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work.

Callverb

To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of.

Callverb

To utter in a loud or distinct voice; - often with off; as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a military company.

Callverb

To invoke; to appeal to.

Callverb

To rouse from sleep; to awaken.

Callverb

To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; - sometimes with to.

Callverb

To make a demand, requirement, or request.

Callverb

To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders.

Callnoun

The act of calling; - usually with the voice, but often otherwise, as by signs, the sound of some instrument, or by writing; a summons; an entreaty; an invitation; as, a call for help; the bugle's call.

Callnoun

A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty.

Callnoun

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

Callnoun

A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case; a moral requirement or appeal.

Callnoun

A divine vocation or summons.

Callnoun

Vocation; employment.

Callnoun

A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders.

Callnoun

A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds.

Callnoun

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

Callnoun

The cry of a bird; also a noise or cry in imitation of a bird; or a pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.

Callnoun

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.

Callnoun

The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on.

Callnoun

See Assessment, 4.

Callnoun

a telephone connection;

Callnoun

a special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course;

Callnoun

a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition;

Callnoun

a demand especially in the phrase

Callnoun

the characteristic sound produced by a bird;

Callnoun

a brief social visit;

Callnoun

a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement

Callnoun

a demand for a show of hands in a card game;

Callnoun

a request;

Callnoun

an instruction that interrupts the program being executed;

Callnoun

brief visit in an official or professional capacity;

Callnoun

(sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee;

Callnoun

the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date

Callverb

assign a specified, proper name to;

Callverb

get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone;

Callverb

ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality;

Callverb

order, request, or command to come;

Callverb

utter a sudden loud cry;

Callverb

pay a brief visit;

Callverb

call a meeting; invite or command to meet;

Callverb

order or request or give a command for;

Callverb

order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role;

Callverb

indicate a decision in regard to;

Callverb

stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather;

Callverb

read aloud to check for omissions or absentees;

Callverb

send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc.; make a signal to in order to transmit a message;

Callverb

declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee;

Callverb

utter a characteristic note or cry;

Callverb

utter in a loud voice or announce;

Callverb

make a prediction about; tell in advance;

Callverb

challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense;

Callverb

consider or regard as being;

Callverb

demand payment of (a loan);

Callverb

give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance

Callverb

greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name;

Callverb

make a stop in a harbour;

Callverb

make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands;

Callverb

require the presentation of for redemption before maturation;

Callverb

lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal;

Callverb

challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of;

Callverb

rouse somebody from sleep with a call;

Gallnoun

Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.

Gallnoun

(anatomy) The gall bladder.

Gallnoun

Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.

Gallnoun

(countable) A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.

Gallnoun

(uncountable) A feeling of exasperation.

Gallnoun

(uncountable) Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.

Gallnoun

A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as with a blister.

Gallnoun

(countable) A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.

Gallnoun

(countable) A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.

Gallnoun

A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp Cynips quercusfolii.

Gallverb

(transitive) To bother or trouble.

Gallverb

To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.

Gallverb

To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.

Gallverb

To exasperate.

Gallverb

To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.

Gallverb

To scoff; to jeer.

Gallverb

To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.

Gallnoun

The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder.

Gallnoun

The gall bladder.

Gallnoun

Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor.

Gallnoun

Impudence; brazen assurance.

Gallnoun

An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut.

Gallnoun

A wound in the skin made by rubbing.

Gallverb

To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts.

Gallverb

To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable.

Gallverb

To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm.

Gallverb

To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy.

Gallverb

To scoff; to jeer.

Gallnoun

an open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle

Gallnoun

a skin sore caused by chafing

Gallnoun

abnormal swelling of plant tissue caused by insects or microorganisms or injury

Gallnoun

a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

Gallnoun

a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats

Gallnoun

the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties

Gallverb

become or make sore by or as if by rubbing

Gallverb

irritate or vex;

Gall

Galls (from Latin galla, 'oak-apple') or cecidia (from Greek kēkidion, anything gushing out) are a kind of swelling growth on the external tissues of plants, fungi, or animals. Plant galls are abnormal outgrowths of plant tissues, similar to benign tumors or warts in animals.