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TO CALL OFF

Definition: TO CALL OFF

TO CALL OFF

1. To summon away; to divert; as, to call off the attention; to call off workmen from their employment.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Crosswords: TO CALL OFF

English words defined with "TO CALL OFF": Avocate ♦ To call the roll, To take acquaintance of. (references)

Specialty definitions using "TO CALL OFF": collateralized mortgage obligation, continuous wave ♦ Enthusiasm ♦ Porcus ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ♦ ship purser ♦ Uar ♦ virtual 86 mode ♦ Yale Haskell. (references)

Etymologies containing "TO CALL OFF": Devocation. (references)

Non-Fiction Usage: TO CALL OFF

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Philippines	In June the assassination of a sitting congressman led the Government to call off peace talks with the National Democratic Front, the political arm of the Communist Party. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Modern Translation: TO CALL OFF

Language		Translations for "TO CALL OFF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		absagen (call off, cancel, cry off, decline, refuse, renege, to renege, turn down). (various references)

Hungarian		lemond (abandon, abdicate, back down, demit, denounce, disclaim, forgo, give up, renounce, resign, to abdicate, to disclaim, to discontinue, to eschew, to renounce, to resign, to surrender, to throw up, to waive), lefúj (blow off, cancel, to blow off, to whiff), elszólít, elhív (to call in). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		取り止める (to cancel). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		とりやめる (to cancel). (various references)

Pig Latin		otay allcay offay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: TO CALL OFF

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-f-f-l-l-o-o-t"
	-1 letter: footfall.
	-4 letters: afoot, allot, aloft, aloof, atoll, cloot, float, flota, focal, local, loofa, octal, offal.
	-5 letters: alto, caff, calf, call, calo, clot, coal, coat, coff, coft, cola, colt, coof, cool, coot, fact, fall, flat, floc, foal, fool, foot, loaf, loca, loco, loft, loof, loot, lota, olla, taco, talc, tall, toff, tola, toll, tool.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: TO CALL OFF

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F 43 41 4C 4C 4F 46 46

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01000011 01000001 01001100 01001100 00100000 01001111 01000110 01000110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#67 &#65 &#76 &#76 &#32 &#79 &#70 &#70

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F 0043 0041 004C 004C 004F 0046 0046

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54492373546462494040

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Translations: Modern

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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