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calls meaning

EN[kɔlz] [kɔːlz] [kɑlz]
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    Definition of calls in English Dictionary

  • NounBFcall
    1. plural of call.
    2. VerbBFcallPRcallingPT, PPcalledPT, PPcall'd
      1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of call.
      2. More Examples
        1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
          • He sat there, baffled, hoping nobody would call on him.
          • As we have seen, Stephen identifies with the poet-hero, and Fergus's call becomes a sirensong for his mother.
          • Similarity-based clustering of CDR3 or V(D)J sequences (also called clonotyping) represents a frequent pre-processing step in immune repertoire analyses [ 82 ].
        2. Used in the Beginning of Sentence
          • Call for research into pesticides blamed for vanishing bees. ‎
          • Call the huge organism by a fabled name, Briareus, the Hundredhanded, with all his tenacles swimming in his own sea of Music; thus we may mythologize the Orchestra for our fancy.
          • Called khubz, the bread is about the size of pita but much denser.
        3. Used in the Ending of Sentence
          • I was still a two-striper (A2/c) I couldn't afford phone calls.
          • The season is over for Manhattan, not because the Jaspers were outplayed or outhustled but, perhaps, because of a single call.
          • They had lost the key, and the lock stymied the first three locksmiths they called.
      • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
        1. Nouns
          • Noun forms
            • Noun plural forms
          • Verbs
            • Verb forms
              • Verb singular forms
                • Third-person singular forms
          Related Links:
          1. en callsign
          2. en calls up
          3. en calls in
          4. en callsigns
          5. en calls off
          Source: Wiktionary

          Meaning of calls for the defined word.

          Grammatically, this word "calls" is a noun, more specifically, a noun form. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form.
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