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KORL/kɔːl/

Your mobile rings, or you shout a name across a room — both can be call. Call someone = phone them. Call someone a name / call out are related uses. Give me a call is informal. Do not mix call with shout when you only mean the phone.

Meaning

To phone someone, or to say someone’s name loudly.

Examples

• “I will call you this evening.”
• “Call me when you arrive.”
• “They called the baby Yusuf.”

Good to know

call + person = phone. give me a call. Past: called.

Near in meaning

phone

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