call
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When call helps
Base Score
1
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
3
A C L
Two-Letter Start
CA
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
LL
Check this pattern late
- 4 letters
- 3 unique letters
- CA start
- LL ending
- repeated letters
Try it when
- call is a four-letter word, so it is worth 1 point when accepted.
- It uses 3 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include a, c, l plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (L x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The LL ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the CA start.
- BuzzyWords has saved this word in 2 published Daily snapshots.
Pronunciation
noun
A telephone conversation.
"I received several calls today."
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A short visit, usually for social purposes.
"I paid a call to a dear friend of mine."
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A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
"The ship made a call at Southampton."
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A cry or shout.
"He heard a call from the other side of the room."
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A decision or judgement.
"That was a good call."
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The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
"That sound is the distinctive call of the cuckoo bird."
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A beckoning or summoning.
"I had to yield to the call of the wild."
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The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
"I give the call to the Manager of Opposition Business."
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An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
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The act of calling to the other batsman.
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The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
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A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).
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The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
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A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
"There was a 20 dollar bet on the table, and my call was 9."
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The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
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A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
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A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
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A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
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An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
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Vocation; employment; calling.
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A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
noun
(prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
verb
(heading) To use one's voice.
verb
(heading) To visit.
verb
(heading) To name, identify or describe.
verb
(heading) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
verb
(sometimes with for) To require, demand.
"He felt called to help the old man."
verb
To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
verb
To demand repayment of a loan.
verb
To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
"A recursive function is one that calls itself."