give name
1 to give sb/sth a particular name; to use a particular name or title when you are talking to sb:
[VN-N] They decided to call the baby Brooklyn. * His name's Hiroshi but everyone calls him Hiro. * What do they call that new fabric? * [VN] They called their first daughter after her grandmother. * We call each other by our first names here.
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describe
2 to describe sb/sth in a particular way; to consider sb/sth to be sth:
[VN-N] I wouldn't call German an easy language. * Are you calling me a liar? * He was in the front room, or the lounge or whatever you want to call it. * [VN-ADJ] Would you call it blue or green? * [VN-N] I make it ten pounds forty-three you owe me. Let's call it ten pounds.
shout
3 ~ (sth) (out)
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for call is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is call a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, call is tagged as verb.
Does call appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — call appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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