Lexic.us

Definition of Call up

1. Verb. Bring forward for consideration. "The case was called up in court"

2. Noun. An order to report for military duty.

3. Verb. Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone. "They call up "; "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning"

4. Verb. Recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection. "They won't call up the story "; "Call up memories"

5. Verb. Call to arms; of military personnel.

Definition of Call up

1. Noun. An order to report for military service. ¹

2. Verb. To retrieve from personal or computer memory. ¹

3. Verb. (idiomatic) To call on the telephone. ¹

4. Verb. To select e.g. to a sports squad. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Call Up

call sign call signs call someone's bluff call stack call stacks call the ball call the police call the shots call the tune call them as one sees them

call to account call to mind call to order call to prayer call to the bar call up call ups call value call waiting calla

calla lily callability callable callable bond callable bonds callables callaghanite callaloo callaloos callan

Literary usage of Call up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"Tait the names of the founders of his science call up the ideas, not so much of the scientific documents they have left behind them in our libraries, ..."

2. The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times by Edward Augustus Freeman (1892)
"... of Sicily did not simply call up wild hopes for the future, past failure might seem to call to renewed undertakings which should not end in failure. ..."

3. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. by James Boswell, Arnold Glover (1901)
"For instance, he would call up a boy and ask him Latin for a candlestick, which the boy could not expect to be asked. Now, Sir, if a boy could answer every ..."

4. On the Study of Celtic Literature by Matthew Arnold (1867)
"to call up any number of instances. Latin poetry supplies plenty of instances too; if we put this from ..."

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