TO CALL UP

Definition: TO CALL UP

TO CALL UP

1. (a) To bring into view or recollection; as to call up the image of deceased friend. (b) To bring into action or discussion; to demand the consideration of; as, to call up a bill before a legislative body. Syn: To name; denominate; invite; bid; summon; convoke; assemble; collect; exhort; warn; proclaim; invoke; appeal to; designate. Usage: To Call , Convoke , Summon . Call is the generic term; as, to call a public meeting. To convoke is to require the assembling of some organized body of men by an act of authority; as, the king convoked Parliament. To summon is to require attendance by an act more or less stringent anthority; as, to summon a witness.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Modern Usage: TO CALL UP

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Lyrics

That's right I had to call up L (Hey Ma; performing artist: Cam'ron)

Just about to call up the DA man (Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress); performing artist: Hollies)

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Use in Literature: TO CALL UP

Title	Author	Quote
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	I then desired the Governor to call up Descartes and Gassendi, with whom I prevailed to explain their systems to Aristotle.
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Modern Translation: TO CALL UP

Language		Translations for "TO CALL UP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		aufbieten (call in, exert, muster, publish, reveal, summon up). (various references)

Hungarian		felhív (telefonon) (to call back, to phone), felébreszt (arouse, awake, awaken, to arouse, to pique, to raise, to rouse, to wake, to waken, wake, waken). (various references)

Pig Latin		otay allcay upay
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Anagrams: TO CALL UP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-l-l-o-p-t-u"
	-2 letters: copula, cupola.
	-3 letters: allot, atoll, caput, clapt, clout, coapt, copal, culpa, local, octal, poult.
	-4 letters: alto, atop, auto, call, calo, capo, caul, clap, clop, clot, coal, coat, cola, colt, coup, cull, cult, loca, lota, loup, lout, olla, opal, pact, pall, plat, plot, poll, pout, pula, pull, taco, talc, tall, tola, toll, tolu.
	-5 letters: act.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-l-l-o-p-t-u"
	+2 letters: eucalyptol, leucoplast.
	+3 letters: cupellation, eucalyptole, eucalyptols, leucoplasts, unpolitical.
	+4 letters: conceptually, cupellations, eucalyptoles.
	+5 letters: leptocephalus.
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