A cry or shout. • The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal. • A beckoning or summoning. • A telephone conversation; a phone call. • An instance of calling someone on the telephone. • A short visit, usually for social purposes. • A visit by a ship or boat to a port. • A decision or judgement. • The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor. • Ellipsis of call option. • The act of calling to the other batsman. • The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.) • A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call. • The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point. • A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on. • The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting. • A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt. • A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty. • A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call. • An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor. • Vocation; employment; calling. • 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. • A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job. • A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year. • Need; necessity.