callest

Verb

call (third-person singular simple present calls, present participle calling, simple past and past participle called or (archaic) call'd)

1. (intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon.
   • That person is hurt; call for help!
2. (intransitive) To cry or shout.
   • "Supper's ready," called Dad from the kitchen.

   Synonyms:

   holler, yell, cry, halloo, roar, howl, roop, scream, shout

3. (transitive) To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
   • to call the roll of a military company
4. (ambitransitive) To contact by telephone.
   • Why don’t you call me in the morning?

   Synonyms:

   drop a line, ring, get on the horn, give someone a ring, give someone a bell, telephone, call up, dial up, give someone a buzz, give someone a call

5. (transitive) To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
   • Take not away the Taper, leaue it burning: / And if thou canſt awake by foure o’th’clock, / I prythee call me: Sleepe hath ceiz’d me wholly.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...

   Synonyms:

   wake up, arouse, awake, awaken, bring round, cry, knock up, rouse, roust, uprouse

6. (transitive, jazz) To request that one's band play (a particular tune).
   • They called I Got Rhythm, and turned to me again for a solo, and I said what?1997, Saxophone Journal

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