Call

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Call or Calls may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Games

  • Call (poker), a bet matching an opponent's
  • Call, in the game of contract bridge, a bid, pass, double, or redouble in the bidding stage

Music and dance

  • Call (band), from Lahore, Pakistan
  • Call, a command in square dancing, delivered by a caller
  • "Call / I4U", a 2011 single by Japanese music group AAA
  • "Call", a 2002 song by Ashanti from her album Ashanti
  • "Call" (Stray Kids song), 2021

Film

  • Call (film), or The Call, 2020 South Korean film
  • Calls (film), 2021 Indian Tamil-language crime thriller film

Television

  • Calls (TV series), a mystery thriller TV series on Apple TV+

Finance

  • Call on shares, a request for a further payment on partly paid share capital
  • Call option, a term in stock trading

Places

  • Call, North Carolina, United States
  • Call, Texas, United States

Science and technology

Computing

  • Call, a shell command in DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows command-line interpreters
  • Call, a method of starting a subroutine
  • Computer-assisted language learning, a concept in language education
  • System call, in computer science, the mechanism used by an application program to request service from the operating system or another application program

Nature

  • Animal communication, a song or noise made by an animal such as:
    • Bird call, a type of bird vocalization
    • Mating call, animal communication to attract a sexual partner
  • Game call, a device that is used to mimic animal communication noises to attract or drive animals to a hunter

Telecommunications

  • Call, an attempt to set up a telecommunication circuit
  • Call, in teletraffic engineering, a unit of traffic measurement
  • Call origination, in telephony
  • Call sign, in broadcasting and radio communications, a unique designation for a transmitting station
  • Telephone call

Other uses

See also

  • Caller (disambiguation)
  • Calling (disambiguation)
  • The Call (disambiguation)
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