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Definition: TO CALL IN |
TO CALL IN1. (a) To collect; as, to call in debts or money; ar to withdraw from cirulation; as, to call in uncurrent coin. (b) To summon to one's side; to invite to come together; as, to call in neighbors. |
Crosswords: TO CALL IN |
| English words defined with "TO CALL IN": absurd, Accidental lights ♦ Because of, beg, bless, block, blockage, bobby pin, break in, bring oneself ♦ call, call up, challenge, cite, closure, commemorate, count off ♦ derisory ♦ Equivocal chord ♦ fail, fatefully, function call ♦ grip ♦ hairgrip, huffily, Hunt's-up ♦ implore, in case, Invocate ♦ just in case ♦ laughable, ludicrous ♦ neglect, Nestorian, nonsensical ♦ occlusion ♦ Passion Week, phone, police headquarters, police office, police station, pray, preposterous ♦ remember, remind, reveille, ridiculous, ring ♦ sign, station house, stop, stoppage, summon, summons ♦ telephone, think of, To call the roll, To cry to, To dance attendance, To hear well, To help up, To poll a jury, To take acquaintance of, To tell no store of ♦ use. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "TO CALL IN": Hunt's-up. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Had to call in sick today. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Abraham Lincoln | I am superstitious. I have scarcely known a party, preceding an election, to call in help from the neighboring states, but they lost the State. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | If the memory cells ever bump into the disease again, they know to call in other cells in the immune system to protect the body and get rid of the disease. (references) | |
Children | Qatar | The system allows both citizen and noncitizen children to call in with questions and concerns ranging from school, health, and psychological problems to concerns about sexual harassment. (references) |
Worker Rights | Sweden | Safety ombudsmen have the authority to stop unsafe activity immediately and to call in an inspector. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "TO CALL IN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | lehív (have down, to call down, to invoke), lakásra hív, elhív (to call off), beszólít, bekéret (to ask in), bekér, behív (call in, draft, draught, induct, summon, to draft, to summon). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 召し入れる , 呼び込む (to restore a disowned son), 呼び入れる (to bring in, to invite). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | めしいれる, よびいれる (to bring in, to invite), よび"む (to restore a disowned son). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | otay allcay inay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-l-n-o-t" | |
-2 letters: action, alnico, atonic, cation, catlin, citola, clinal, clonal, coital, latino, lintol, oilcan, talion, tincal. | |
-3 letters: actin, allot, aloin, antic, atoll, canto, coati, colin, cotan, lilac, linac, llano, local, lotic, nicol, notal, octal, octan, ontic, talon, tical, tolan, tonal, tonic. | |
-4 letters: alit, alto, anil, anti, cain, call, calo, cant, ciao, cion, clan, clit, clon. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-l-n-o-t" | |
+1 letter: allantoic, collating, collation, ontically, tonically. | |
+2 letters: allocating, allocation, allocution, citronella, collations, interlocal, locational. | |
+3 letters: allocations, allocutions, antialcohol, antilogical, botanically, calculation, citronellal, citronellas, colligating, colligation, collimating, collimation, collocating, collocation, colonialist, compliantly, conflictual, continually, cupellation, decollating, decollation, dictionally, doctrinally, factionally, fictionally, lactational, nonmetallic, ontological, oscillating, oscillation, sectionally, tonetically, unpolitical, vacillation. | |
+4 letters: anatomically, anthological, anticolonial, antisocially, calculations, cancellation, cantillation, cationically, citronellals, colligations, collimations, collinearity, collocations, colonialists, compellation, congenitally, crenellation, cupellations, decollations, diatonically, entropically, ethnological, flocculating, flocculation, fractionally, frictionally, functionally, hallucinator, hypnotically, inflectional, isotonically, localization, locationally, microtonally, monastically, monometallic, narcotically, neurotically, nonpolitical, occidentally, oscillations, outcavilling, phonetically, plainclothes, platonically, pontifically, postcolonial, reallocating, reallocation, reflectional, romantically, scintillator, synoptically, tectonically, tinctorially, vacillations, vocationally. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F 43 41 4C 4C 49 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01000011 01000001 01001100 01001100 00100000 01001001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   C A L L   I N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F 0043 0041 004C 004C 0049 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)544923735464624348 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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