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CALL UP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An order to report for military duty
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("call up" is a kind of...):
summons (an order to appear in person at a given place and time)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Derivation:
call up (call to arms; of military personnel)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
Example:
call up memories
Synonyms:
call back; call up; recall; recollect; remember; retrieve; think
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "call up"):
know (perceive as familiar)
recognise; recognize (perceive to be the same)
brush up; refresh; review (refresh one's memory)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Somebody ----s VERB-ing
Sense 2
Meaning:
Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
Example:
Take two aspirin and call me in the morning
Synonyms:
call; call up; phone; ring; telephone
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "call up" is one way to...):
telecommunicate (communicate over long distances, as via the telephone or e-mail)
"Call up" entails doing...:
dial (operate a dial to select a telephone number)
Verb group:
call (send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc.; make a signal to in order to transmit a message)
Domain category:
telephone; telephony (transmitting speech at a distance)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "call up"):
cell phone (call up by using a cellular phone)
call in (make a phone call)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence examples:
Sam cannot call up Sue
They call up
Sense 3
Meaning:
Bring forward for consideration
Example:
The case was called up in court
Synonyms:
bring forward; call up
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "call up" is one way to...):
raise (cause to be heard or known; express or utter)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Call to arms; of military personnel
Synonyms:
call up; mobilise; mobilize; rally
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Hypernyms (to "call up" is one way to...):
call; send for (order, request, or command to come)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
call up (an order to report for military duty)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Cause to become available for use, either literally or figuratively
Example:
running into an old friend summoned up memories of her childhood
Synonyms:
call up; summon
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "call up" is one way to...):
create; make (make or cause to be or to become)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "call up"):
arouse; bring up; call down; call forth; conjure; conjure up; evoke; invoke; put forward; raise; stir (summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Context examples:
For his highness the governor ordered me to call up whatever persons I would choose to name, and in whatever numbers, among all the dead from the beginning of the world to the present time, and command them to answer any questions I should think fit to ask; with this condition, that my questions must be confined within the compass of the times they lived in.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
"I'm going to have the McKees come up," she announced as we rose in the elevator. "And of course I got to call up my sister, too."
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
"I talked with Miss Baker," I said after a moment. "I'm going to call up Daisy tomorrow and invite her over here to tea."
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Have you got a church you go to sometimes, George? Maybe even if you haven't been there for a long time? Maybe I could call up the church and get a priest to come over and he could talk to you, see?
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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