Call At

Definition: Call At

Call At

Verb

1. Enter a harbor, as of a ship.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Call At

Sociality

Be at home with, feel at home with, make oneself at home with; make free with; crack a bottle with; receive hospitality, live at free quarters; find the latchstring out. visit, pay a visit; interchange visits, interchange cards; call at, call upon; leave a card; drop in, look in; look one up, beat up one's quarters.

Crosswords: Call At

I believe you asked for a wakeup call at the dawn of time. (Dinosaur; writing credit: Walon Green; Thom Enriquez)

I was once in Dublin for the horse show, and I got a call at the Sheldon Room from a man who wanted to dress me in black underwear. (Midnight Lace; writing credit: Janet Green; Ivan Goff)

Curtain Call at Cactus Creek (1950)

Last Call at Maud's (1993)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• I Never Found That Rocking Chair: God's Call at Retirement (reference)

• Last Call at the 7-Eleven: Fine Dining at 2 A.M., the Search for Spandex People, and Other Reasons to Go on Living (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Senator and Mrs. Underwood call at White House. Credit: Library of Congress.

Supreme Court justices call at White House. Credit: Library of Congress.

Roll call at a German concentration camp (from a Nazi photograph). Two prisoners in the foreground are supporting a comrade, as fainting was frequently an excuse for the guards to "liquidate" useless inmates / Joint Distribution Committee photo. Credit: Library of Congress.

Owners of Muscle Shoals call at the White House ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Orville Wright, Major John F. Curry, and Colonel Charles Lindbergh, who came to pay Orville a personal call at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, June 22, 1927. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Besides, there was a still more terrible standing invitation to call at every one of these houses, and company expected about these times.

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Business

So great was the importance that travelers and guests received fine hospitality that Greeks believed that Jupiter himself, disguised as a traveler, could call at their homes to test them. Today, tourism inspectors are less divine, but the importance of granting excellence in service is equally highly valued. (references)

Economic History

North Korea

Commercial U.S. ships and aircraft carrying U.S. goods are allowed to call at D.P.R.K. ports. (references)

Comoros

Long-distance, ocean-going ships must lie offshore and be unloaded by smaller boats; during the cyclone season, this procedure is dangerous, and ships are reluctant to call at the island. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Afrikaans

aandoen (activate, affect, call, cause, give, give rise to). (various references)

Bulgarian 

спирам се при, наминавам към. (various references)

Czech

zastavovat v, stavit se (call, come round, longing). (various references)

Dutch

stoppen in, aandoen (activate, affect, agitate, cause, give rise to, move, put on, switch, turn on). (various references)

Esperanto

halti en. (various references)

Finnish

sanokaa, että hän tulisi kello 10 (tell him to call at 10 o'clock), poiketa satamaan (call at a port), käydä jossakin (call at a place, visit). (various references)

French

toucher � , s'arrêter � , faire escale � . (various references)

German

vorbeigehen bei, halten in, anlaufen (accrue, begin, come running up, initiate, mist up, mount up, open, put into, rise, start, start off, start running, steam up, take a run-up, take off, tarnish, to initiate, touch at, warm up). (various references)

Hungarian

meglátogat (call on, come by, saw, seen, to call, to call at, to call on, to look up, to see, to visit, visit), kikötőt érint (to call at a port, to touch at a port), kiköt (condition, dock, land, moor, specify, to berth, to call at a port, to condition, to covenant, to crucify, to dock, to haul up, to put into port, to specify, to stipulate, to tie up, to uncouple). (various references)

Indonesian

singgah (drop in, to call somewhere, transit), mengunjungi, mampir (come by, drop in, look in). (various references)

Italian

passare (be passed, be taken for, cross, elapse, get through, give, go beyond, go by, go through, hand, hand on, happen, help, lapse, pass, pass off, put, put through, roll by, roll on, run, see out, slip, spend, stop by, strain, switch, take place, to pass, transfer). (various references)

Pig Latin

allcay atay

Romanian

trece pe la (be, call for, do, look up), se opri la (pick at, pick on). (various references)

Spanish

visitar (attend, call on, call upon, come by, come over, come round, do, frequent, go on a visit, go over, look round, look up, pay a call, see, see over, tour, treat, visit), pasar por (fall back on, pass along, pass by, pass for, pass through, push through), hacer escala en (touch at). (various references)

Swedish

stanna i, besöka (attend, call in, call on, do, go to see, pay a visit to, resort to, see, tour, visit), anlöpa (anneal, put to at, temper, touch). (various references)

Turkish

ziyaret etmek (call, call on, call upon, come by, come over, come round, haunt, look up, make a visit, pay a visit, stop by, visit, wait on, wait upon), uğramak (call on, call upon, come by, come over, come round, drop around, drop in, drop in on, experience, fall into, incur, look up, meet, put in an appearance, receive, run against, run in, stop by, stop in, sustain, touch at, undergo, visit), hastayı yoklamak. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: calla.

-2 letters: acta, call, tala, talc, tall.

-3 letters: aal, act, ala, all, alt, cat, lac, lat.

-4 letters: aa, al, at, la, ta.

+1 letter: callant, catcall, catfall, lacteal.

+2 letters: actually, allocate, callants, catcalls, catchall, catfalls, climatal, lacteals.

+3 letters: alkalotic, allantoic, allocated, allocates, allocator, altricial, antically, blacktail, calculate, capitally, castellan, catcalled, catchalls, clamantly, claustral, dialectal, factually, locatable, placental, tactually, trackball, vacillate.

+4 letters: allocating, allocation, allocators, allopatric, analytical, anticlinal, apolitical, arctically, atomically, atypically, blacktails, calculated, calculates, calculator, cantillate, carnallite, carpellate, castellans, catcalling, cathodally, cavalletti, chelatable, collateral, galactosyl, lanceolate, locational, malolactic, nautically, paclitaxel, phatically, placentals, reallocate, salicylate, saltcellar, statically, tactically, trackballs, tragically, ultraclean, vacillated, vacillates, vacillator.