ALL meanings of call up
call up
C c - phrasal verb call up If you call someone up, you telephone them. 3
- phrasal verb call up If someone is called up, they are ordered to join the army, navy, or air force. 3
- phrasal verb call up If someone is called up, they are chosen to play in a sports team. 3
- adjective call up If a person gets their call-up papers, they receive an official order to join the armed forces. 3
- countable noun call up A call-up is an occasion on which people are ordered to report for service in the armed forces. 3
- countable noun call up If someone receives a call-up to a sports team, such as the national football team, they are chosen to play for that team. 3
- verb call up to summon to report for active military service, as in time of war 3
- verb call up to recall (something); evoke 3
- verb call up to bring or summon (people, etc) into action 3
- verb call up to telephone 3
- noun call up a general order to report for military service 3
- noun call up the number of men so summoned 3
- noun call up an order to report for service in the military 3
- noun call up the selection of a player for a team 3
- noun call up to make someone remember; recall 3
- noun call up to summon, esp. for military duty 3
- noun call up to retrieve (data) or access (a file, menu, etc.) and display on a computer screen 3
- noun call up an order, as to those in the reserves, to report for active duty 3
- noun call up a cry or shout. 1
- noun call up the cry or vocal sound of a bird or other animal. 1
- noun call up an instrument for imitating this cry and attracting or luring an animal: He bought a duck call. 1
- noun call up an act or instance of telephoning: She went into the next room to place her call. 1
- noun call up a short visit: to make a call on someone. 1
- noun call up a summons or signal sounded by a bugle, bell, etc.: We live so close to the fort that we can hear the bugle calls. 1
- noun call up a summons, invitation, or bidding: The students gathered at the call of the dean. 1
- noun call up a calling of a roll; roll call. 1
- noun call up the fascination or appeal of a given place, vocation, etc.: the call of the sea. 1
- noun call up a mystic experience of divine appointment to a vocation or service: He had a call to become a minister. 1
- noun call up a request or invitation to become pastor of a church, a professor in a university, etc. 1
- noun call up a need or occasion: He had no call to say such outrageous things. 1
- noun call up a demand or claim: to make a call on a person's time. 1
- noun call up a demand for payment of an obligation, especially where payment is at the option of the creditor. 1
- noun call up Cards. a demand for a card or a showing of hands. Poker. an equaling of the preceding bet. Bridge. a bid or pass. 1
- noun call up Sports. a judgment or decision by an umpire, a referee, or other official of a contest, as on a shot, pitch, or batter: The referees were making one bad call after another. 1
- noun call up Theater. a notice of rehearsal posted by the stage manager. act call. curtain call. 1
- noun call up Dance. a figure or direction in square dancing, announced to the dancers by the caller. 1
- noun call up Also called call option. Finance. an option that gives the right to buy a fixed amount of a particular stock at a predetermined price within a given period of time, purchased by a person who believes the price will rise. Compare put (def 24). 1
- noun call up Fox Hunting. any of several cries, or sounds made on a horn by the hunter to encourage the hounds. 1
- verb with object call up to cry out in a loud voice; shout: He called her name to see if she was home. 1
- verb with object call up to command or request to come; summon: to call a dog; to call a cab; to call a witness. 1
- verb with object call up to ask or invite to come: Will you call the family to dinner? 1
- verb with object call up to communicate or try to communicate with by telephone: Call me when you arrive. 1
- verb with object call up to rouse from sleep, as by a call; waken: Call me at eight o'clock. 1
- verb with object call up to read over (a roll or a list) in a loud voice. 1
- verb with object call up to convoke or convene: to call Congress into session. 1
- verb with object call up to announce authoritatively; proclaim: to call a halt. 1
- verb with object call up to order into effect; establish: to call a strike. 1
- verb with object call up to schedule: to call a rehearsal. 1
- verb with object call up to summon by or as if by divine command: He felt called to the ministry. 1
- verb with object call up to summon to an office, duty, etc.: His country called him to the colors. 1