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(intransitive, video games) To summon minions or reinforcements.
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To summon or call (to a higher tribunal).
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(law) A second summons served when the first attempt to serve a summons was unsuccessful.
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To voluntarily perform a task or set of tasks with which one is confronted, especially when motivated by a sense of responsibility or duty.
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To invite someone to enter one's house.
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To invite (someone) to come to one's house or other place.
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A legally binding directive—issued by a court of law, legislature, or other authority—that requires workers who are engaging in a strike or similar labor action to return to work.
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(transitive, obsolete) To summon; to call out.
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(transitive, obsolete) To call upon; call forth; challenge.
n
Summons and control, in a position of servitude or as an attendant.
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(transitive, obsolete) To educate; influence; steer; direct.
v
To introduce a new rule, law, or system of organisation.
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To formally begin or restore the orderly functioning of (a meeting or assembly or legislature or similar body).
n
A decision or judgement.
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To summon; to cause to depart.
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(transitive) To summon, to call to speak.
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(transitive) To summon someone, especially for help or advice.
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(idiomatic, transitive) (also call upon) To have recourse to.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To order into service; to summon into service.
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To ask (someone) to come to one's location, especially when raising one's voice towards someone within earshot.
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(idiomatic) To make a roll call; to take attendance.
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(transitive) To tempt (someone or something); to beckon; to be difficult to resist.
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(transitive) To formally signal the start of (a meeting or function or assembly or court).
v
Focus attention on and motivate to do the work at hand.
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(transitive) To summon (someone) to report for military service.
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Alternative form of call on (certain senses). [(idiomatic, transitive) To visit (a person); to pay a call to.]
n
Alternative spelling of call out
n
Alternative spelling of call up [An order to report for military service.]
adv
So as to call or summon
n
An instance of being summoned to visit a certain place in order to provide assistance; an instance of summoning someone who is on call.
n
Alternative spelling of call up [An order to report for military service.]
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(transitive) To seek to verify (a claim or some data).
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(transitive, archaic or dialectal) To call; call by the name of; name.
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(transitive) To discover jointly with somebody else.
n
A discovery made by two or more people, especially such a discovery made independently.
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(intransitive, of a meeting, assembly, proceeding, legislature, court) To come to an orderly state allowing it to conduct its business.
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(obsolete) To call forth; to summon.
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(transitive, obsolete) to call to account, to take to task, to challenge
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(intransitive) To become friendly; to fraternize.
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(transitive) To question someone after a military mission in order to obtain information (especially intelligence).
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(transitive, informal) To introduce (people to each other) by means of computer communication.
v
(transitive) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.
v
(archaic or nonstandard) Alternative form of invoke [(transitive) To call upon (a person, a god) for help, assistance or guidance.]
n
The act of calling out or forth, or evoking.
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(intransitive, archaic) To perform a scientific experiment.
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(transitive) To answer; to address.
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(intransitive, with for, chiefly law) To submit a formal request to some office.
n
Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
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(obsolete) To call forth, summon, invite
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(law) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to.
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(transitive) To initiate or restore the orderly functioning of (a meeting or function or assembly or court), usually by pounding a gavel or similar hammer.
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(idiomatic, intransitive) To make something public; to announce publicly or to the press.
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Alternative form of inbring [(transitive) To bring in; introduce; present; usher in; adduce; induce; cause to come in.]
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(archaic, transitive) To instruct, train (usually in matters of knowledge).
v
(obsolete) To invent; to contrive.
n
A new development; a fresh approach to something; a new way of dealing with a problem.
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Pronunciation spelling of introduce. [(transitive, of people) To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else).]
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(transitive) To devise, conceive, cook up, plan.
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(business, intransitive) To meet for discussion.
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(philosophy) To address (a person) in a way that presupposes a particular identification of them; to give (a person) an identity (which may or may not be accurate).
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(intransitive) To be interviewed; to attend an interview.
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(informal, transitive) To introduce.
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(transitive) To make (something or someone) known by formal announcement or recommendation.
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The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company.
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(transitive) To request formally.
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(transitive) To call upon (a person, a god) for help, assistance or guidance.
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(transitive, slang) To meet with someone.
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(intransitive, idiomatic) To be published in the news media.
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(formal) To meet someone; to be introduced.
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(transitive, intransitive) To make or become meet or fit; make suitable; adapt; prepare.
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(transitive, obsolete) To call.
v
(transitive, US, obsolete in UK) To call or summon (someone).
v
(transitive, law) To take legal proceedings against.
v
(transitive) To cause to automatically behave in a particular way.
v
(transitive) To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.
v
to convey or communicate.
n
An act of reconnaissance.
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(archaic) Help, advice, counsel.
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(intransitive) To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself.
v
(transitive) To make an adverse official decision concerning (a person).
n
(by extension) The subset of those members of a specific group who are present or available out of the full set of all the members of said group.
v
(informal) Alternative letter-case form of RSVP [(intransitive) To reply to an invitation.]
v
To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit.
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To order or summon (a person) to one's presence.
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(sports, transitive) To introduce (a substitute) into the game.
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(transitive) To guide or escort.
v
To lead or direct someone to an enclosed space, usually a room.
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(informal, transitive or intransitive) To teach the basics of a skill.
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(obsolete) A summoner; especially, one who summons to an ecclesiastical court.
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(military) Command instructing a person to confirm that they are present or that some other objective has been met.
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(transitive) To summon with a subpoena.
v
(obsolete) To sign away; to yield; to surrender.
n
A call to do something, especially to come.
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(ditransitive) To cause (someone) to learn or understand (something).
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(copulative) To be shown to be by test.
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To consult for advice or help.
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(transitive, fantasy) To send (a summoned creature) back to its own plane of existence.
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(obsolete, transitive) To exhibit, as though for sale; to show off.
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(transitive, intransitive) To collectively approve a nominee for an office or position as a result of voting.
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(chiefly with "off", "away", and similar words) To advise or order to go or stay away.
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(transitive) To call back or call away (from); recall; withdraw one's words; retract; recant; unsay; cancel; call off.
n
(law) Synonym of summons
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