CALL AT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enter a harbor

Example:

the ship called in Athens

Synonyms:

call at; out in

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "call at" is one way to...):

come in; enter; get in; get into; go in; go into; move into (to come or go into)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

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Context examples:

But, as I knew I could not come next day, when I should have a good deal to prepare in the evening, Mr. Micawber arranged that he would call at Doctor Strong's in the course of the morning (having a presentiment that the remittance would arrive by that post), and propose the day after, if it would suit me better.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He proposes to call at about quarter past six to-morrow evening, if Dr. Trevelyan will make it convenient to be at home.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Ah, yes, I hear these naughty ones go to vex you, Mees Marsch. If so again, call at me and I come," he said, with a threatening frown that delighted the little wretches.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"I hope I shall remember, in future," said Lady Russell, as soon as they were reseated in the carriage, "not to call at Uppercross in the Christmas holidays."

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

This afternoon a carrier's cart with two men made a call at the empty house whose grounds abut on ours—the house to which, you will remember, the patient twice ran away.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Should I be too early to see your master, Mr. Silas Brown, if I were to call at five o’clock to-morrow morning?”