To reach out with one's voice. • To request, summon, or beckon. • To cry or shout. • To utter in a loud or distinct voice. • To contact by telephone. • To rouse from sleep; to awaken. • To request that one's band play (a particular tune). • To scold. • To visit. • To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again). • To stop at a station or port. • To come to pass; to afflict. • To name, identify, or describe. • To name or refer to. • Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name. • To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact. • To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as. • To disclose the class or character of; to identify. • To declare, or declare in favor of, a predicted or actual result. • To declare in advance. • To predict. • To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death. • To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure. • To make a decision as a referee or umpire. • Direct or indirect use of the voice. • (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run. • (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions). • To tell in advance which shot one is attempting. • To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting. • 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.) • To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on. • To require, demand. • To cause to be verbally subjected to. • To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs. • To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium. • To demand repayment of a loan. • To jump to (another part of a program); to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.