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Definitions: Caller |
CallerAdjective1. Providing coolness; "a cooling breeze"; "`caller' is a Scottish term as in `a caller breeze'". 2. (Scottish) fresh; "caller fish". Noun1. A social or business visitor; "the room was a mess because he hadn't expected company". 2. An investor who buys a call option. 3. The bettor in a card game who matches the bet and calls for a show of hands. 4. A person who announces the changes of steps during a dance; "you need a fiddler and a caller for country dancing". 5. Someone who proclaims or summons in a loud voice; "the callers were mothers summoning their children home for dinner". 6. The person who convenes a meeting; "who is the caller of this meeting?". 7. The person initiating a telephone call; "there were so many callers that he finally disconnected the telephone". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "caller" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
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Occupations | Reads items listed on order sheets to LABORER, STORES (any industry) who gathers and assembles items or to BILLING TYPIST (clerical) who prepares bills for items. Indicates on order sheets items located and items that are not available. May read items to CHECKER (clerical) I who examines articles prior to shipping. May be designated by kind of data called out to other worker as Weight Caller (clerical); Yardage Caller (textile). (references) |
| Notifies members of train, engine, or yard crews to report for duty or meetings: Obtains addresses and telephone numbers from personnel records. Talks to workers by telephone to inform them of time to report. Positions worker's name tag on assignment board. Records reason given by worker unable to report and gives information to TRAIN DISPATCHER (r.r. trans.) or DISPATCHER CLERK (r.r. trans.). (references) | |
Post & Telecom | One who makes a phone call. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: In the past boys would call upon girls rather than "ask them out.". Definition: Refers to a male visitor at the house. Context: Used over the intercom system in the house to warn girls that the visitor is a guy so that they can get ready and look decent. Social Source: Alpha Chi Omega. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Caller."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| CAVE | English | Caller verification in banking and telecommunications | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: CallerSynonyms: cooling (adj), caller-out (n), caller-up (n), company (n), phoner (n), telephoner (n). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | I don't know you. Prank caller, prank caller! (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary) Go ahead caller, tell me why you hate Marco. (Sealab 2021; writing credit: John J. Miller; Adam Reed) Just had another cursin' caller. Your little ass is gonna be in big trouble with that tape girl. (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2; writing credit: Kim Henkel; Tobe Hooper) | |
Lyrics | So I did 213 showed up on your caller ID ("It's not right,but it's okay"; performing artist: Whitney Houston) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Night Caller (1965) Caller Herrin' (1947) First Time Caller (2002) The Caller (2000) Gentleman Caller (1996) | |
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| Play | Caption |
| Bingo caller calling out bingo numbers and letters, a male participant says "bingo". | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The caller stepped to the middle of the floor and held up his hands. |
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Business | In addition to these services, caller identification, call forwarding, double line service, video conferencing, and online shopping are offered. (references) | |
Today the value-added telecommunication services in Lithuania include Internet access, voice mail, Short Message Service (SMS), caller ID and double line services, but the demand for services such as video-conferencing, WAP, ISDN, and e-commerce are emerging rapidly. (references) | ||
Telecommunications operators offer Internet-related services for data, call-waiting, call-forwarding, call barring, voice mail, caller ID, short message service (SMS), unified messaging, conference calls, information numbers, pre-paid calling, pre-paid Internet cards and virtual private networking. (references) | ||
Economic History | Egypt | Most promising subsectors: Wireless local loop (CDMA) equipment, telephone switches, fiber-optic cables and copper telephone cables, satellite communications equipment, caller identification equipment, antennas, switches, and computer equipment. (references) |
Human Rights | Brazil | In more than half the calls received, the caller hung up or remained silent. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Phil McGraw | Well, listen. That depends on you. Let me give you some criteria to follow that might help you. First, as I said to a caller before, you don't want to have to talk anybody into it. If you got to talk him into it, you don't want him. Trust me, you don't. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Caller" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.70% of the time. "Caller" is used about 330 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.7% | 329 | 15,846 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.3% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 330 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "caller" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Caller | Last name | 100 | 74,419 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "caller": caller ID ♦ caller identification ♦ signal caller. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "caller": caller-out, caller-up. | |
Ending with "caller": play-caller. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
caller id | 1,337 |
caller times | 371 |
caller | 316 |
caller christi corpus | 150 |
caller id software | 128 |
caller id box | 74 |
caller id phone | 71 |
caller id free | 63 |
caller id blocking | 39 |
caller id for tv | 31 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "caller"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | besoeker (visitor). (various references) | |
Albanian | vizitor (comer, sightseer, visitant, visitor). (various references) | |
Arabic | زيارة قصيرة (flying visit), زائر (guest), طازج (fresh, hot, new, wet), المتصل بالتلفون. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гост (guest, visitant, visitor), прохладен (fresh), пресен (fresh, good, new, new-laid, spick and span, sweet, taintless, warm, young), посетител (guest, visitant, visitor). (various references) | |
Chinese | 访问者 (caller-out, caller-up). (various references) | |
Czech | telefonující, návštìvník (comer, guest, stranger, visitor). (various references) | |
Danish | vækningsmand (knocker-up), medarbejder der vækker personale i tjenestsberedskab (knocker-up), kaldeprogram, den opkaldende (calling party, calling subscriber), A (ampere, calling party, calling subscriber). (various references) | |
Dutch | bezoeker (visitor). (various references) | |
Esperanto | vizitanto (visitor). (various references) | |
Farsi | ملاقات کننده , صدازننده , دیدنی کننده , دعوت کننده . (various references) | |
Finnish | soittava tilaaja (calling party, calling subscriber), soittava osapuoli (calling party, calling subscriber), soittaja (bandsman, calling party, calling subscriber, musician, player), kutsuva ohjelma (calling program, invoking program). (various references) | |
French | visiteur, demandeur (calling party, calling subscriber). (various references) | |
German | besucher (patron, visitor, visitors), anrufer (callers, telephoner). (various references) | |
Greek | καλών 2)συνδρομητής (calling party, calling subscriber), καλών (summoner), πρόγραμμα κλήσης, υπεύθυνος εγερτηρίου (knocker-up), επισκέπτησ (guest, visitor), αυτόσ που καλεί, αφυπνιστής (knocker-up). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | vizitor (visitor). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מבקר (guest, visitor), קורא (reader). (various references) | |
Hungarian | látogató (attendant, attendee, guest, visitant, visiting, visitor). (various references) | |
Indonesian | orang yang memanggil. (various references) | |
Italian | chiamante, visitatore (final examiner, inspector, spot checker, visitant, visitor), utente chiamante (calling party, calling subscriber), programma chiamante (calling program, invoking program), incaricato della sveglia (knocker-up), agente incaricato della sveglia del personale (knocker-up), addetto alla sveglia (knocker-up). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 訪問客 (visitor), 来訪者 (client, visitor), 来客 (visitor), 客人 (company, guest, visitor). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きゃくじ" (company, guest, visitor), ほうも"きゃく (visitor), らいきゃく (visitor), らいほうしゃ (client, visitor), らいかく (visitor). (various references) | |
Korean | 손님 (guest). (various references) | |
Manx | ylleyder (exclaimer, shouter), keayrtagh (circulating, occasional, periodic, touristic, tripper, visitor), eameyder (shouter). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | allercay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | visitante (stranger, visitant, visiting, visitor), visita (arrival, call, guest, survey, visit, visitant, visitation, visitor, visits), subscritor que chama (calling party, calling subscriber), programa de chamada, fresco (bonny, buxom, chilled, chilly, cool, crisp, finicky, fresco, fresh, good, new, prissy, recent, sweet, term applied to wines containing adequate but not excess acidity), assinante (calling party, calling subscriber, customer, subscriber), aquele que chama. (various references) | |
Romanian | vizitator (guest, patron, visitor). (various references) | |
Russian | посетитель (attendees, visitor). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | posetilac (guest, habitue, visitant, visitor), posetilački, gostinski, gost (guest, visitor). (various references) | |
Spanish | comunicante (connecting, corespondent, party), persona que llama, despertador (alarm clock, knocker-up), el que llama, hombre comunicante, hombre de visita, abonado que llama (calling party, calling subscriber), pedido (cash order, indent, inquired, invited, order, requisition, wish), vista (appearance, aspect, examination, exterior, eyesight, fondness, glance, hearing, look, perspective, seeing, show, sight, take, takeoff, to look, view, vision, visitor, vista), programa de llamada, que llama (calling party, calling subscriber), solicitante (applicant, calling party, calling subscriber, claimant, petitioner), visita (call, company, guest, inspection, is visiting, overhaul, search, stay, tour, treat, viewing, visit, visitor, you are visiting), visitante (client, customer, frequenter, non-member, visitant, visiting, visitor), visitor, llamador. (various references) | |
Swedish | uppringare (callers, dialer), besökande (visiting, visitor). (various references) | |
Turkish | ziyaretçi (visitant, visitor), telefon eden kimse, oyunu yöneten kimse, misafir (company, guest, lodger, sojourner, visitor). (various references) | |
Ukranian | свіжий (breezy, brisk, clean, crisp, fresh, green, new, new-laid, original, racy, sweet), той, хто робить перекличку, гість (guest, visitant), відвідувач (comer, visitor), прохолодний (cool), провітрений (aerated). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người gọi, người đến thăm. (various references) | |
Welsh | geilwad. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | salutor. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "caller": callers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "caller": recaller. (additional references) | |
Words containing "caller": recallers. (additional references) | |
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"Caller" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Allexr, cabler, calary, Calcero, Calea, Calearo, calee, calem, calen, caley, Callam, callar, Callart, callay, callee, callen, Callery, calles, Calli, callip, callit, callper, callum, Callyr, calor, Calper, Capler, Casler, Caullery, cayle, ceiler, celer, Celler, cellur, celuler, chaleur, challe, cillei, Ciller, cler, Colleer, coller, kaler, Kallir, shaller, valler. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "caller" (pronounced kô"ler) |
| 3 | -ô" l er | baller, faller, hauler, installer, mauler, smaller, taller, trawler. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cellar, recall. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-l-r" | |
-1 letter: carle, cella, clear, lacer. | |
-2 letters: acre, alec, call, care, carl, cell, earl, lace, leal, lear, race, rale, real. | |
-3 letters: ace, ale, all, arc, are, car, cel, ear, ell, era, lac, lar, lea, rec. | |
-4 letters: ae, al, ar, el, er, la, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-l-r" | |
+1 letter: callers, carrell, cellars, clearly, ocellar, recalls, scleral. | |
+2 letters: allergic, brucella, calliper, callower, canaller, carolled, caroller, carrells, caviller, cellared, cellarer, cellaret, cellular, clerical, collared, collaret, coverall, crevalle, micellar, millrace, nucellar, overcall, recalled, recaller, rectally, rocaille. | |
+3 letters: acellular, brucellae, brucellas, caballero, callipers, canallers, canceller, carefully, carollers, cavillers, cellarage, cellarers, cellarets, cellaring, centrally, cerebella, chlorella, cleanlier, clearable, clericals, collarets, collinear, colorable, coralline, corollate, corralled, coveralls, crevalles, curveball, electoral, marcelled, millraces, molecular, nucleolar, overcalls, parcelled, rachillae, recallers, recalling, rocailles, scalloper, screwball, scutellar, secularly, subcellar, varicella. | |
+4 letters: allergenic, allometric, allosteric, barcarolle, bellyacher, brilliance, brocatelle, caballeros, calciferol, callipered, cancellers, caracolled, carefuller, carelessly, carnallite, carpellary, carpellate, cavalierly, cellarages, cellarette, cerebellar, cerebrally, challenger, chancellor, cheliceral, chloralose, chlorellas, citronella, clerically, cloverleaf, collarbone, collarless, collateral, colorectal, columellar, coralbells, corallines, cordillera, coveralled, cranesbill, curveballs, declarable, electrical, erotically, escadrille, gracefully, heroically, illiteracy, interlocal, irenically, jackrolled, lackluster, lenticular, marcelling, metrically, overcalled, parcelling, peculiarly, precalculi, prelogical, reallocate, recallable, reclosable, recyclable, replicable, salesclerk, saltcellar, scallopers, sclerotial, screwballs, sepulchral, spectrally, specularly, sterically, subcellars, ultraclean, vallecular, varicellas, vertically, victualler, viscerally, vorticella. | |
+5 letters: acerbically, acropetally, aerobically, allegorical, ancestrally, ancillaries, articulable, bacterially, ballcarrier, barcarolles, bellyachers, bimolecular, blacklister, blackmailer, brilliances, brocatelles, calciferols, calendrical, callipering, capillaries, carefullest, carillonned, carnallites, caterpillar, cauliflower, cellarettes, cellularity, centrically, challengers, chancellery, chancellors, chancellory, chanterelle, chloralosed, chloraloses, citronellal, citronellas, clapperclaw, clericalism, clericalist, cloverleafs, collaborate, collarbones, collaterals, cordilleran, cordilleras, corollaries, corporeally, cranesbills, crenellated, crestfallen, crystalline, crystallise, crystallite, crystallize, curveballed, electorally, empirically, eristically, erratically, escadrilles, generically, gracefuller, gracelessly, heretically, intervallic, kilocalorie, lacklusters, lamellicorn, larcenously, lucratively, lyricalness, mercurially, molecularly, nonallergic, noncellular, nonclerical, numerically, oneirically, overcalling, peacefuller, placeholder, polynuclear, prebiblical, precalculus, preclinical, precolonial, racquetball, reallocated, reallocates, recalculate, rechallenge, reclaimable, recyclables, relocatable, reluctantly, replaceable, rheological, salesclerks, saltcellars, sarcolemmal, serological, spherically, subcellular, thermically, unicellular, vectorially, veridically, viceregally, victuallers, vorticellae, vorticellas. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 6C 6C 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-.. .-.. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01101100 01101100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a l l e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 006C 006C 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)376778787184 |
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