Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An inner urge or a strong impulse, especially one believed to be divinely inspired to accept the Gospels as truth and Jesus as one's personal savior.
- n. An occupation, profession, or career.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of summoning; a call or summons.
- n. The act of convoking or assembling.
- n. An invitation. Specifically, in theology: The invitation extended in the gospel to all to repent, and accept Christ as a saviour.
- n. The profession, trade, occupation, or employment to which one is called by aptitude, necessity, etc.; usual occupation, profession, or employment; vocation.
- n. Name; appellation; title.
- n. Synonyms Pursuit, business, etc. See occupation.
- Clamant; crying.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of call.
- n. A strong urge to become religious.
- n. A job or occupation.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of one who calls; a crying aloud, esp. in order to summon, or to attact the attention of, some one.
- n. A summoning or convocation, as of Parliament.
- n. A divine summons or invitation; also, the state of being divinely called.
- n. A naming, or inviting; a reading over or reciting in order, or a call of names with a view to obtaining an answer, as in legislative bodies.
- n. One's usual occupation, or employment; vocation; business; trade.
- n. The persons, collectively, engaged in any particular professions or employment.
- n. obsolete Title; appellation; name.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the particular occupation for which you are trained
Etymologies
- from call (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Yonder, behind the forests, he heard strange sounds; then glinting through the trees he saw, far, far away, the bronzed hosts of a nation calling, calling faintly, calling loudly.”
“The father went calling, _calling_ the name of his boy.”
Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary Collated from his Diary by Benjamin Funk
“For example: a label calling for a one-teaspoon dose packaged with a cup marked in milliliters.”
“In 2007 a black woman in Canada purchased a couch from a store in Toronto and upon being delivered, her 7-year-old daughter spotted the label calling out the color as "Nigger-Brown.”
“Mushroom would have to remain its more manageable intriguing self, a word calling out to be loved for its divisibility.”
“What is not acceptable is the name calling and hate mongering.”
The Huffington Post: Jeff Wald: Government Is Bullshit Led by Bullshit Press
“I have so many less than lady like things I want to say about you, but I've decided to leave the name calling to all the not so happy people who have said you're a shallow, overrated, attention seeking, sad, pathetic, pointless, money hungry human.”
The Huffington Post: Stacie Krajchir: An Open Letter to Kim Kardashian
“Since his arrival home on Friday, President Saleh hasn't made a public appearance, but the state-run news agency issued a statement in his name calling for a comprehensive cease fire between government and opposition forces.”
“I could handle the fact that my hips made me invisible to my crushes and that I violated every law of popularity, but to be ordinary was a fate worse than the name calling my overachieving rendered.”
Fictionaut: Velcro Shoes, a Cardboard Computer, and Other Signs of Brilliance
“Looking more carefully at the EOA, the term calling out the 180 days is actually in Sec.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘calling’.
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 more...
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RELI - words you immediately associat...
advent, almighty, altar, anoint, apostle, archangel, ark, Balaam, baptism, baptist, baptize, begotten and 341 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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