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noun
- an electronic device that can automatically dial telephone numbers to communicate between any two points in the telephone, mobile phone and pager networks
- (computing) malicious software, embedded in a website, that routes dial-up Internet connections to a different telephone number charged at a premium rate
verb
- operate a dial to select a telephone number
- (transitive) To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone, regardless of whether a physical dial is present.
- (intransitive) To use a dial or a telephone.
- choose by means of a dial
- (transitive) To initiate a connection to a remote computer service such as a database.
- (transitive) To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial.
noun
- the face of a timepiece; graduated to show the hours
- the control on a radio or television set that is used for tuning
- a disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called
- the circular graduated indicator on various measuring instruments
- A disk with finger holes on a telephone; used to select the number to be called.
- A sundial.
- Such a field as part of a clock face; (metonymic) the entire clock face.
- (UK, Australia, slang) A person's face.
- A miner's compass.
- A graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed).
- A panel on a radio etc showing wavelengths or channels; a knob that is turned to change the wavelength etc.
verb
- To connect (to a system or service) by telephone.
- To configure or set up (particularly a complex machine with many configuration options [especially knobs and dials]).
- (figurative) To apprehend and align oneself (to an idea, circumstance, way of thinking, etc.).
- To join or participate in (a conference call).
adj
- (telephony) Of a telephone call, such that the caller is only connected and charged if the person he specified is available to speak.
- (finance) Of a loan, such that the lender and borrower are individuals rather than companies.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see person-to-person.
- involving direct communication or contact between persons or parties
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verb
noun
verb
- (telecommunications, intransitive) To press or dial 0 in order to escape a voicemail recording facility and speak to an operator.
- (transitive) To reduce to zero.
- (computing, transitive) To fill with zeros, replacing any previous contents.
- (intransitive, slang) To go bankrupt.
- (transitive) To cut off funding for (a project).
noun
adj
verb
- make a phone call
- take a player out of a game in order to exchange for another player
- pay a brief visit
- summon to a particular activity or employment
- cause to be returned
- demand payment of (a loan)
- summon to enter
- (transitive) To request immediate repayment of (a debt).
- (intransitive) To pay a short visit.
- (intransitive, copulative) To communicate with a base etc, by telephone.
- (transitive) To report; communicate (a message) by telephone or similar.
- (transitive) To summon someone, especially for help or advice.
- (transitive) To withdraw something from sale or circulation.
noun
- (slang, countable) A telephone.
- (architecture) The Ionic volute.
- A vessel made from a horn, to contain drink, ink, gunpowder, etc.
- (chiefly sports) A sound signaling the expiration of time.
- (countable) A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư.
- (carpentry) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
- (vulgar, slang, with definite article) An erection of the penis.
- (military) In naval mine warfare, a projection from the mine shell of some contact mines which, when broken or bent by contact, causes the mine to fire.
- (informal, music, countable) Generally, any brass wind instrument.
- An antler.
- (botany) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
- Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.
- One of the two corners of a crescent, particularly of the crescent moon
- One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
- The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
- (countable, zootomy) A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
- (nautical) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
- (countable, automotive) A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
- (uncountable) The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
- (countable, geography) A peninsula or projecting tract of land.
- (countable) A conical device used to direct waves.
- (countable) Any of several musical wind instruments.
- (countable, music) An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
- one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates
- a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it
- any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn
- a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning
- a device having the shape of a horn
- the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails
- a device on an automobile for making a warning noise
- a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves
- a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves
- a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather)
- an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound
verb
verb
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- (ambitransitive) To contact by telephone.
- lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal
- make a stop in a harbour
- consider or regard as being
- send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc.; make a signal to in order to transmit a message
- give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance
- order, request, or command to come
- assign a specified (usually proper) name to
- present for redemption before maturation
- utter a sudden loud cry
- make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands
- indicate a decision in regard to
- pay a brief visit
- utter a characteristic note or cry
- challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense
- rouse somebody from sleep with a call
- challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of
- order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role
- call a meeting; invite or command to meet
- read aloud to check for omissions or absentees
- ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality
- demand payment of (a loan)
- greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name
- utter in a loud voice or announce
- declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee
- order or request or give a command for
- make a prediction about; tell in advance
- stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather
- (transitive) To declare in advance.
- To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
- (transitive, with into) To cause to be verbally subjected to.
- (Yorkshire, transitive) To scold.
- (transitive) To predict.
- (transitive, colloquial) To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
- (baseball, cricket) (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).
- To stop at a station or port.
- (transitive) To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death.
- (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
- (intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon.
- (intransitive, poker, proscribed) 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.)
- (cricket) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
- (intransitive, poker) To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.
- To come to pass; to afflict.
- (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program); to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
- (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
- (passive voice) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
- (transitive) To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
- (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
- (ditransitive) To name or refer to.
- To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).
- (sports) To make a decision as a referee or umpire.
- (billiards) To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.
- (transitive, jazz) To request that one's band play (a particular tune).
- (transitive) To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
- (transitive) To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.
- To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.
- (intransitive) To cry or shout.
- (transitive) To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
noun
- a method of contacting a person by phone
- a demand
- a brief social visit
- a demand for a show of hands in a card game
- (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee
- a visit in an official or professional capacity
- a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring their margin up to the minimum requirement
- a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition
- the characteristic sound produced by a bird
- a request
- the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
- a special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course
- an instruction that interrupts the program being executed
- (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
- (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
- A telephone conversation; a phone call.
- A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
- (finance) Ellipsis of call option.
- An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
- (in negative constructions) Need; necessity.
- A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
- (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
- A short visit, usually for social purposes.
- (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
- A decision or judgement.
- (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
- A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
- A cry or shout.
- The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
- An instance of calling someone on the telephone.
- (uncountable) A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call.
- (informal, slang, prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
- (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
- (law) A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.
- A beckoning or summoning.
- The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
- (US, law) 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.
verb
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- cause to become available for use, either literally or figuratively
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- call to arms; of military personnel
- bring forward for consideration
- (transitive) To retrieve from personal or computer memory.
- (transitive) To select e.g. to a sports squad.
- (transitive) To summon (someone) to report for military service.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To call on the telephone.
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noun
- (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
- electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds
- electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear
- A device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances, now often a small portable unit also capable of running software etc.
- (phonetics) A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language.
- (colloquial) A person's telephone number (as a means of contact); digits.
verb
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- sound loudly and sonorously
- ring or echo with sound
- attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify
- make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification
- extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
- (transitive) To enclose or surround.
- (intransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo.
- (transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
- To ring up (enter into a cash register or till)
- (intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
- (transitive, colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).
- (Australia, transitive) To ride around (a group of animals, especially cattle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
- (transitive) To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
- (transitive) To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
- (intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
- (transitive) To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
- (transitive) To produce (a sound) by ringing.
- (falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
- (intransitive) To produce music with bells.
- (intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
noun
- a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)
- a platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle
- (chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop
- an association of criminals
- a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling
- a characteristic sound
- jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger
- the sound of a bell ringing
- a toroidal shape
- (colloquial) A telephone call.
- (typography) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
- Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
- In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
- (Internet) Ellipsis of webring.
- A circular group of people or objects.
- (astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
- (vulgar) The rectum, anus, or anal sphincters.
- (historical) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
- (chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
- A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
- An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
- (mathematical analysis, measure theory) A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and set-theoretic differences.
- (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
- (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
- The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
- A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
- (algebra) An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.
- (figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
- A long stripe of contrastive material, colour, etc, that encircles something.
- (computing theory) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
- (British) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
- A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
- A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
- (jewelry) A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
- (algebra) An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.
- (networking) A network topology where connected devices form a circular data channel. All computers on the ring can see every message, and there are no collisions, and a single point of failure will occur if any part of the ring breaks.
- (firearms) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
- (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.
- (UK) A burner on a kitchen stove.
- The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
- (cartomancy) The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
- (botany) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
- (UK) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
- (mathematics, order theory) A family of sets closed under finite union and finite intersection.
verb
noun
- electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds
- transmitting speech at a distance
- (countable, historical) The receiver of such a device.
- (Canada, US, uncountable) The game of Chinese whispers.
- (countable, telephony) A telecommunication device (originally mechanical, and now electronic) used for two-way talking with another person (now often shortened to phone).
- (Canada, US, uncountable, figuratively) Chinese whispers; a situation in which an initial message has been distorted and misunderstood by being passed from person to person.
noun
- caller identification; a feature that identifies the phone number of the caller.
- Abbreviation of combat identification; compare IFF.
- Initialism of criminal investigation/investigative division/department.
- Acronym of center/centre instrument display.
- (automotive) Initialism of cubic inches displacement; cubic inches of displacement.
- the United States Army's principal law enforcement agency responsible for the conduct of criminal investigations for all levels of the Army anywhere in the world
name
verb
- connect by telephone
- pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, through.
- (idiomatic) To connect (a telephone caller) with the callee.
- (idiomatic) to cause to endure
- (transitive, UK) To smash (e.g. a window) so as to create an opening.
- (transitive, soccer) To pass the ball to (someone) giving them a one-on-one scoring opportunity.
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verb
noun
- a computerized system for answering and routing telephone calls; telephone messages can be recorded and stored and relayed
- (uncountable) A computerized interactive system for storing, processing and reproducing verbal messages left through a conventional telephone network.
- (countable, by extension) An individual message on such a system.
verb
adj
- Of a telephone, having an open connection; not hung up.
- Of a telephone, ringing frequently.
- (idiomatic, informal, slang) Fresh, cool, trendy, excellent, incredible.
- (idiomatic, informal, sports) Performing extraordinarily well.
- (idiomatic) Relieved of a duty, burden, responsibility, or pressure.
- freed from danger or blame or obligation
noun
- booth for using a telephone
- a numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for
- (UK, Ireland) Synonym of telephone box (enclosure)
- A box containing a telephone for use in emergency, usually mounted on a post in an area where normal access to telephones is inconvenient (such as on an interstate highway or a very long highway bridge)
- The wall-mounted box allowing a person to speak into an intercom
noun
- a method of contacting a person by phone
- (law, colloquial) A quick, informal consultation or conversation with a lawyer, usually by a party in distress or that is about to be placed under arrest.
- The conversation held by the two parties on this connection.
- A connection established over a telephone network between two parties.
noun
verb
- (telephony) To make a phone call from an internal phone system to a general telephone network number.
- To sound clearly and loudly.
- (video games, ambitransitive) To throw (an opponent) out of the arena, thereby winning.
- (sound engineering) To equalize a sound system to eliminate feedback.
- (finance) To eliminate the middlemen in a circular pattern of transactions.
- sound loudly
noun
verb
- hold the phone line open
- be persistent, refuse to stop
- fix to; attach
- To weigh down or oppress.
- To keep; to store something for someone.
- To pay close attention to, or regard with (possibly obsequious) admiration.
- (chiefly imperative) To wait a moment.
- To hold, grasp, or grip.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hang, on.
- To depend upon.
- To persevere.
- To continually believe in something; to have faith in.
verb
- hold the phone line open
- retain possession of
- be persistent, refuse to stop
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
- hold firmly
- To grasp or grip firmly.
- (idiomatic) To retain an advantage.
- (idiomatic) Wait a short while.
- (idiomatic) To persist.
- (idiomatic) To keep; to store something for someone.
- (idiomatic) To remain loyal.
noun
- an electronic device that can automatically dial telephone numbers to communicate between any two points in the telephone, mobile phone and pager networks
- (computing) malicious software, embedded in a website, that routes dial-up Internet connections to a different telephone number charged at a premium rate
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adj
noun
- (slang, countable) A telephone.
- (architecture) The Ionic volute.
- A vessel made from a horn, to contain drink, ink, gunpowder, etc.
- (chiefly sports) A sound signaling the expiration of time.
- (countable) A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư.
- (carpentry) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
- (vulgar, slang, with definite article) An erection of the penis.
- (military) In naval mine warfare, a projection from the mine shell of some contact mines which, when broken or bent by contact, causes the mine to fire.
- (informal, music, countable) Generally, any brass wind instrument.
- An antler.
- (botany) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
- Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.
- One of the two corners of a crescent, particularly of the crescent moon
- One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
- The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
- (countable, zootomy) A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
- (nautical) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
- (countable, automotive) A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
- (uncountable) The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
- (countable, geography) A peninsula or projecting tract of land.
- (countable) A conical device used to direct waves.
- (countable) Any of several musical wind instruments.
- (countable, music) An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
- one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates
- a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it
- any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn
- a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning
- a device having the shape of a horn
- the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails
- a device on an automobile for making a warning noise
- a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves
- a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves
- a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather)
- an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound
verb
noun
- caller identification; a feature that identifies the phone number of the caller.
- Abbreviation of combat identification; compare IFF.
- Initialism of criminal investigation/investigative division/department.
- Acronym of center/centre instrument display.
- (automotive) Initialism of cubic inches displacement; cubic inches of displacement.
- the United States Army's principal law enforcement agency responsible for the conduct of criminal investigations for all levels of the Army anywhere in the world
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noun
verb
noun
- a computerized system for answering and routing telephone calls; telephone messages can be recorded and stored and relayed
- (uncountable) A computerized interactive system for storing, processing and reproducing verbal messages left through a conventional telephone network.
- (countable, by extension) An individual message on such a system.
verb
noun
- booth for using a telephone
- a numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for
- (UK, Ireland) Synonym of telephone box (enclosure)
- A box containing a telephone for use in emergency, usually mounted on a post in an area where normal access to telephones is inconvenient (such as on an interstate highway or a very long highway bridge)
- The wall-mounted box allowing a person to speak into an intercom
verb
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- (ambitransitive) To contact by telephone.
- lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal
- make a stop in a harbour
- consider or regard as being
- send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc.; make a signal to in order to transmit a message
- give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance
- order, request, or command to come
- assign a specified (usually proper) name to
- present for redemption before maturation
- utter a sudden loud cry
- make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands
- indicate a decision in regard to
- pay a brief visit
- utter a characteristic note or cry
- challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense
- rouse somebody from sleep with a call
- challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of
- order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role
- call a meeting; invite or command to meet
- read aloud to check for omissions or absentees
- ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality
- demand payment of (a loan)
- greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name
- utter in a loud voice or announce
- declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee
- order or request or give a command for
- make a prediction about; tell in advance
- stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather
- (transitive) To declare in advance.
- To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
- (transitive, with into) To cause to be verbally subjected to.
- (Yorkshire, transitive) To scold.
- (transitive) To predict.
- (transitive, colloquial) To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
- (baseball, cricket) (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).
- To stop at a station or port.
- (transitive) To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death.
- (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
- (intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon.
- (intransitive, poker, proscribed) 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.)
- (cricket) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
- (intransitive, poker) To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.
- To come to pass; to afflict.
- (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program); to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
- (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
- (passive voice) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
- (transitive) To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
- (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
- (ditransitive) To name or refer to.
- To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).
- (sports) To make a decision as a referee or umpire.
- (billiards) To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.
- (transitive, jazz) To request that one's band play (a particular tune).
- (transitive) To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
- (transitive) To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.
- To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.
- (intransitive) To cry or shout.
- (transitive) To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
noun
- a method of contacting a person by phone
- a demand
- a brief social visit
- a demand for a show of hands in a card game
- (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee
- a visit in an official or professional capacity
- a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring their margin up to the minimum requirement
- a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition
- the characteristic sound produced by a bird
- a request
- the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
- a special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course
- an instruction that interrupts the program being executed
- (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
- (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
- A telephone conversation; a phone call.
- A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
- (finance) Ellipsis of call option.
- An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
- (in negative constructions) Need; necessity.
- A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
- (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
- A short visit, usually for social purposes.
- (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
- A decision or judgement.
- (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
- A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
- A cry or shout.
- The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
- An instance of calling someone on the telephone.
- (uncountable) A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call.
- (informal, slang, prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
- (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
- (law) A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.
- A beckoning or summoning.
- The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
- (US, law) 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.
noun
- a method of contacting a person by phone
- (law, colloquial) A quick, informal consultation or conversation with a lawyer, usually by a party in distress or that is about to be placed under arrest.
- The conversation held by the two parties on this connection.
- A connection established over a telephone network between two parties.
noun
verb
- operate a dial to select a telephone number
- (transitive) To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone, regardless of whether a physical dial is present.
- (intransitive) To use a dial or a telephone.
- choose by means of a dial
- (transitive) To initiate a connection to a remote computer service such as a database.
- (transitive) To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial.
noun
- the face of a timepiece; graduated to show the hours
- the control on a radio or television set that is used for tuning
- a disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called
- the circular graduated indicator on various measuring instruments
- A disk with finger holes on a telephone; used to select the number to be called.
- A sundial.
- Such a field as part of a clock face; (metonymic) the entire clock face.
- (UK, Australia, slang) A person's face.
- A miner's compass.
- A graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed).
- A panel on a radio etc showing wavelengths or channels; a knob that is turned to change the wavelength etc.
verb
- To connect (to a system or service) by telephone.
- To configure or set up (particularly a complex machine with many configuration options [especially knobs and dials]).
- (figurative) To apprehend and align oneself (to an idea, circumstance, way of thinking, etc.).
- To join or participate in (a conference call).
verb
noun
verb
- (telecommunications, intransitive) To press or dial 0 in order to escape a voicemail recording facility and speak to an operator.
- (transitive) To reduce to zero.
- (computing, transitive) To fill with zeros, replacing any previous contents.
- (intransitive, slang) To go bankrupt.
- (transitive) To cut off funding for (a project).
verb
- make a phone call
- take a player out of a game in order to exchange for another player
- pay a brief visit
- summon to a particular activity or employment
- cause to be returned
- demand payment of (a loan)
- summon to enter
- (transitive) To request immediate repayment of (a debt).
- (intransitive) To pay a short visit.
- (intransitive, copulative) To communicate with a base etc, by telephone.
- (transitive) To report; communicate (a message) by telephone or similar.
- (transitive) To summon someone, especially for help or advice.
- (transitive) To withdraw something from sale or circulation.
verb
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- (ambitransitive) To contact by telephone.
- lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal
- make a stop in a harbour
- consider or regard as being
- send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc.; make a signal to in order to transmit a message
- give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance
- order, request, or command to come
- assign a specified (usually proper) name to
- present for redemption before maturation
- utter a sudden loud cry
- make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands
- indicate a decision in regard to
- pay a brief visit
- utter a characteristic note or cry
- challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense
- rouse somebody from sleep with a call
- challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of
- order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role
- call a meeting; invite or command to meet
- read aloud to check for omissions or absentees
- ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality
- demand payment of (a loan)
- greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name
- utter in a loud voice or announce
- declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee
- order or request or give a command for
- make a prediction about; tell in advance
- stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather
- (transitive) To declare in advance.
- To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
- (transitive, with into) To cause to be verbally subjected to.
- (Yorkshire, transitive) To scold.
- (transitive) To predict.
- (transitive, colloquial) To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
- (baseball, cricket) (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).
- To stop at a station or port.
- (transitive) To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death.
- (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
- (intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon.
- (intransitive, poker, proscribed) 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.)
- (cricket) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
- (intransitive, poker) To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.
- To come to pass; to afflict.
- (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program); to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
- (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
- (passive voice) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
- (transitive) To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
- (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
- (ditransitive) To name or refer to.
- To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).
- (sports) To make a decision as a referee or umpire.
- (billiards) To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.
- (transitive, jazz) To request that one's band play (a particular tune).
- (transitive) To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
- (transitive) To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.
- To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.
- (intransitive) To cry or shout.
- (transitive) To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
noun
- a method of contacting a person by phone
- a demand
- a brief social visit
- a demand for a show of hands in a card game
- (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee
- a visit in an official or professional capacity
- a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring their margin up to the minimum requirement
- a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition
- the characteristic sound produced by a bird
- a request
- the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
- a special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course
- an instruction that interrupts the program being executed
- (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
- (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
- A telephone conversation; a phone call.
- A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
- (finance) Ellipsis of call option.
- An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
- (in negative constructions) Need; necessity.
- A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
- (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
- A short visit, usually for social purposes.
- (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
- A decision or judgement.
- (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
- A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
- A cry or shout.
- The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
- An instance of calling someone on the telephone.
- (uncountable) A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call.
- (informal, slang, prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
- (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
- (law) A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.
- A beckoning or summoning.
- The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
- (US, law) 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.
verb
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- cause to become available for use, either literally or figuratively
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- call to arms; of military personnel
- bring forward for consideration
- (transitive) To retrieve from personal or computer memory.
- (transitive) To select e.g. to a sports squad.
- (transitive) To summon (someone) to report for military service.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To call on the telephone.
noun
verb
noun
- (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
- electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds
- electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear
- A device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances, now often a small portable unit also capable of running software etc.
- (phonetics) A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language.
- (colloquial) A person's telephone number (as a means of contact); digits.
verb
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- sound loudly and sonorously
- ring or echo with sound
- attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify
- make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification
- extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
- (transitive) To enclose or surround.
- (intransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo.
- (transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
- To ring up (enter into a cash register or till)
- (intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
- (transitive, colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).
- (Australia, transitive) To ride around (a group of animals, especially cattle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
- (transitive) To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
- (transitive) To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
- (intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
- (transitive) To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
- (transitive) To produce (a sound) by ringing.
- (falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
- (intransitive) To produce music with bells.
- (intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
noun
- a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)
- a platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle
- (chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop
- an association of criminals
- a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling
- a characteristic sound
- jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger
- the sound of a bell ringing
- a toroidal shape
- (colloquial) A telephone call.
- (typography) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
- Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
- In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
- (Internet) Ellipsis of webring.
- A circular group of people or objects.
- (astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
- (vulgar) The rectum, anus, or anal sphincters.
- (historical) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
- (chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
- A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
- An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
- (mathematical analysis, measure theory) A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and set-theoretic differences.
- (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
- (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
- The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
- A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
- (algebra) An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.
- (figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
- A long stripe of contrastive material, colour, etc, that encircles something.
- (computing theory) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
- (British) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
- A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
- A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
- (jewelry) A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
- (algebra) An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.
- (networking) A network topology where connected devices form a circular data channel. All computers on the ring can see every message, and there are no collisions, and a single point of failure will occur if any part of the ring breaks.
- (firearms) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
- (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.
- (UK) A burner on a kitchen stove.
- The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
- (cartomancy) The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
- (botany) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
- (UK) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
- (mathematics, order theory) A family of sets closed under finite union and finite intersection.
verb
noun
- electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds
- transmitting speech at a distance
- (countable, historical) The receiver of such a device.
- (Canada, US, uncountable) The game of Chinese whispers.
- (countable, telephony) A telecommunication device (originally mechanical, and now electronic) used for two-way talking with another person (now often shortened to phone).
- (Canada, US, uncountable, figuratively) Chinese whispers; a situation in which an initial message has been distorted and misunderstood by being passed from person to person.
verb
- connect by telephone
- pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, through.
- (idiomatic) To connect (a telephone caller) with the callee.
- (idiomatic) to cause to endure
- (transitive, UK) To smash (e.g. a window) so as to create an opening.
- (transitive, soccer) To pass the ball to (someone) giving them a one-on-one scoring opportunity.
noun
verb
- (telephony) To make a phone call from an internal phone system to a general telephone network number.
- To sound clearly and loudly.
- (video games, ambitransitive) To throw (an opponent) out of the arena, thereby winning.
- (sound engineering) To equalize a sound system to eliminate feedback.
- (finance) To eliminate the middlemen in a circular pattern of transactions.
- sound loudly
noun
verb
- hold the phone line open
- be persistent, refuse to stop
- fix to; attach
- To weigh down or oppress.
- To keep; to store something for someone.
- To pay close attention to, or regard with (possibly obsequious) admiration.
- (chiefly imperative) To wait a moment.
- To hold, grasp, or grip.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hang, on.
- To depend upon.
- To persevere.
- To continually believe in something; to have faith in.
verb
- hold the phone line open
- retain possession of
- be persistent, refuse to stop
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
- hold firmly
- To grasp or grip firmly.
- (idiomatic) To retain an advantage.
- (idiomatic) Wait a short while.
- (idiomatic) To persist.
- (idiomatic) To keep; to store something for someone.
- (idiomatic) To remain loyal.
adj
- (telephony) Of a telephone call, such that the caller is only connected and charged if the person he specified is available to speak.
- (finance) Of a loan, such that the lender and borrower are individuals rather than companies.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see person-to-person.
- involving direct communication or contact between persons or parties
adv
adj
- Of a telephone, having an open connection; not hung up.
- Of a telephone, ringing frequently.
- (idiomatic, informal, slang) Fresh, cool, trendy, excellent, incredible.
- (idiomatic, informal, sports) Performing extraordinarily well.
- (idiomatic) Relieved of a duty, burden, responsibility, or pressure.
- freed from danger or blame or obligation