Call Explained

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 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

Call (surname)
Religious calling
CALL, U.S. Army Center for Army Lessons Learned
CALL, Center for Anglican Learning & Leadership at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific

See also