2. Verb. (third-person singular of call) ¹
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Definition of Calls
1. call [v] - See also: call
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calls
Literary usage of Calls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions by European Orthodontic Society, Lina Oswald, Northern Ohio Dental Society, Ossory Archaeological Society, Wentworth Historical Society, Society of Automobile Engineers (1911)
"The average calls per operator busy hour in the exchange referred to by Mr. ...
The number of calls during the busy hour is one eleventh of the total daily ..."
2. The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior by Robert Burton (1838)
"... ruffs, falls, calls, cuffs, damasks, ; ribbands? Why do they make such glorious
shews with their scarfs, eta, tinsels, cloth of gold, silver, tissue ? ..."
3. The Law of Railways: Embracing Corporations, Eminent Domain, Contracts by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1867)
"Conditions precedent must be performed before calls. 2. But collateral, or subsequent
... Definite capital must all be subscribed before calls. 4. ..."
4. A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume, Thomas Hill Green (1874)
"... that the ideas he calls white and round, are the very ideas they are, and not
other ideas which he calls red and square.' (Book iv. chap. i. sec. 4. ..."
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