Call
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Call may mean:
- Call (telecommunications)
- Telephone call
- Call option or "call", in finance, gives its owner the right to buy stock at a specified price in the future
- Computer-assisted language learning (CALL)
- Center for Anglican Learning & Leadership (CALL)
- Procedure call or subroutine in computer software
- Bird call, a shorter staccato passage of a bird song
- Caller (dancing), a command to execute a dance step
- Call (Pakistani band), a Pakistani alternative rock band
- System call, the mechanism used by an application program to request service from the operating system
- Call, to match a bet or raise in a game of poker
- Slang term to stake a claim on something
- In theater, a call time
- In health care and other professions which require 24 hour availability, a person who is required to be available for emergency calls is said to be "on call". When also required to remain on the premises during this time, the individual may find time to sleep in the "on call room".
- Surnames
- Ann Lowdon Call
- Annie Payson Call
- Brandon Call
- Ramón Malla Call
- R. D. Call
- Richard K. Call
- Wilkinson Call