| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
|---|
| legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment |
arraignment
|
| way of letting you know that someone else is calling when you are using your telephone |
call waiting
|
| small display that will show you the telephone number of the party calling you |
caller ID
|
| act of cancelling; calling off some arrangement |
cancellation
|
| sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks) |
cluck
,
clucking
|
| calling up a spirit or devil |
conjuration
,
conjuring
,
conjury
,
invocation
|
| communion calling for bread, wine consecration |
epiclesis
|
| calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations |
evocation
,
summoning
|
| act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult) |
imprecation
,
malediction
|
| leader of the American Revolution who proposed the resolution calling for independence of the American colonies (1732-1794) |
Lee
,
Richard Henry Lee
|
| telephone call made within a local calling area |
local call
|
| telephone call made outside the local calling area |
long-distance call
,
long distance
,
trunk call
|
| mosque, person calling others to prayer in |
muezzin
|
| someone's calling |
niche
|
| nuclear weapons, calling for an end to acquisition or deployment of |
nonproliferation
|
| treaty calling for an end to the acquisition of nuclear arms |
nonproliferation treaty
|
| number is used in calling a particular telephone |
number
,
phone number
,
telephone number
|
| calling out the name of a person (especially by a loudspeaker system) |
paging
|
| motion calling for an immediate vote on the main question under discussion by a deliberative assembly |
previous question
|
| name-calling |
revilement
|
