Name vs. Call — What's the Difference?

A name is a term used for identification by an external observer. They can identify a class or category of things, or a single thing, either uniquely, or within a given context.

To say in a loud voice; announce

A word or set of words by which a person or thing is known, addressed, or referred to

To demand or ask for the presence of

A famous person

To demand or ask for a meeting of; convene or convoke

(in the UK) an insurance underwriter belonging to a Lloyd's syndicate.

To order or request to undertake a particular activity or work; summon

Give a name to

To give the command for; order

Specify (a sum, time, or place) as something desired, suggested, or decided on

To communicate or try to communicate with by telephone

(of a person or product) having a well-known name

To dial (a telephone number)

A word or words by which an entity is designated and distinguished from others.

To lure (prey) by imitating the characteristic cry of an animal

A word or group of words used to describe or evaluate, often disparagingly

To cause to come to the mind or to attention

Representation or repute, as opposed to reality

To name

A reputation

To consider or regard as being of a particular type or kind; characterize

A distinguished reputation

To designate; label

An illustrious or outstanding person

To demand payment of

To give a name to

To require the presentation of (a bond) for redemption before maturity.

To mention, specify, or cite by name

To force the sale of (a stock or commodity) by exercising a call option.

To call by an epithet

To stop or postpone (a game) because of bad weather, darkness, or other adverse conditions.

To nominate for or appoint to a duty, office, or honor.

To declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee

To specify or fix

To indicate a decision in regard to

Well-known by a name

To give the orders or signals for

Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.

To describe the intended outcome of (one's billiard shot) before playing.

Reputation.

In poker, to place a bet equal to (the preceding bet or bettor).

An abusive or insulting epithet.

To indicate or characterize accurately in advance; predict

A person (or legal person).

To challenge the truthfulness or genuineness of

Those of a certain name; a race; a family.

To shout directions in rhythm for (a square dance).

Authority; behalf.

To speak loudly; shout

(computing) A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.

To utter a characteristic cry. Used of an animal

An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability.

To communicate or try to communicate with someone by telephone

Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.

To pay a short visit

(ditransitive) To give a name to.

(Games) In poker, to place a bet equal to the preceding bet.

(transitive) To mention, specify.

A loud cry; a shout.

(transitive) To identify as relevant or important

The characteristic cry of an animal.

(transitive) To publicly implicate by name.

A sound or an instrument made to imitate such a cry, used as a lure

To disclose the name of.

A telephone communication or connection.

(transitive) To designate for a role.

Need or occasion

To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct.

Demand

The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class.

A claim on a person's time or life

A descriptive or qualifying appellation given to a person or thing, on account of a character or acts.

A short visit, especially one made as a formality or for business or professional purposes.

Reputed character; reputation, good or bad; estimation; fame; especially, illustrious character or fame; honorable estimation; distinction.

A summons or invitation.

Those of a certain name; a race; a family.

A signal, such as that made by a horn or bell.

A person, an individual.

The sounding of a horn to encourage hounds during a hunt.

To give a distinctive name or appellation to; to entitle; to denominate; to style; to call.

A strong inner urge or prompting; a vocation

To mention by name; to utter or publish the name of; to refer to by distinctive title; to mention.

The strong attraction or appeal of a given activity or environment

To designate by name or specifically for any purpose; to nominate; to specify; to appoint; as, to name a day for the wedding; to name someone as ambassador.

A roll call.

To designate (a member) by name, as the Speaker does by way of reprimand.

A notice of rehearsal times posted in a theater.

A language unit by which a person or thing is known;

A decision made by an umpire or referee.

By the sanction or authority of;

An announced description of a game or race, as by a sportscaster.

A person's reputation;

A direction or series of directions rhythmically called out to square dancers.

A well-known or notable person;

A demand for payment of a debt.

Family based on male descent;

A demand to submit bonds to the issuer for redemption before the maturity date.

A defamatory or abusive word or phrase;

An option to buy a certain quantity of a stock or commodity for a specified price within a specified time.

Assign a specified, proper name to;

A demand for payment due on stock bought on margin when the value has shrunk.

Give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property;

A telephone conversation; a phone call.

Charge with a function; charge to be;

An instance of calling someone on the telephone.

Create and charge with a task or function;

A short visit, usually for social purposes.

Mention and identify by name;

(nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.

Identify as in botany or biology, for example

A cry or shout.

Make reference to;

A decision or judgement.

Give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of;

The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.

Determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis

A beckoning or summoning.

The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.

(finance) call option

(cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.

(cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)

(uncountable) A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call.

(computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.

A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.

(poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.

A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.

(nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.

A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.

An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.

(archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.

A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.

A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.

(law) A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.

(in negative constructions) Need; necessity.

To use one's voice.

(intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon.

(intransitive) To cry or shout.

(transitive) To utter in a loud or distinct voice.

(ambitransitive) To contact by telephone.

(transitive) To declare in advance.

To rouse from sleep; to awaken.

To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.

To request that one's band play (a particular tune).

To visit.

To pay a (social) visit often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again.

To stop at a station or port.

To come to pass; to afflict.

To name, identify or describe.

(ditransitive) To name or refer to.

(in passive) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.

(transitive) To predict.

To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.

(transitive) To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death.

(transitive) To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.

(obsolete) To disclose the class or character of; to identify.

Direct or indirect use of the voice.

(cricket) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.

(of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).

To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.

To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.)

(transitive) To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.

To require, demand.

To cause to be verbally subjected to.

To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.

To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.

To demand repayment of a loan.

To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.

(Yorkshire) To scold.

(sports) To make a decision as a referee or umpire.

(cue sports) To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious character; - often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church.

To invite or command to meet; to convoke; - often with together; as, the President called Congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen.

To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name.

To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate.

To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work.

To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of.

To utter in a loud or distinct voice; - often with off; as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a military company.

To invoke; to appeal to.

To rouse from sleep; to awaken.

To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; - sometimes with to.

To make a demand, requirement, or request.

To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders.

The act of calling; - usually with the voice, but often otherwise, as by signs, the sound of some instrument, or by writing; a summons; an entreaty; an invitation; as, a call for help; the bugle's call.

A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty.

An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.

A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case; a moral requirement or appeal.

A divine vocation or summons.

Vocation; employment.

A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders.

A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds.

A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty.

The cry of a bird; also a noise or cry in imitation of a bird; or a pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.

A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.

The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on.

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A telephone connection;

A special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course;

A loud utterance; often in protest or opposition;

A demand especially in the phrase

The characteristic sound produced by a bird;

A brief social visit;

A demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement

A demand for a show of hands in a card game;

A request;

An instruction that interrupts the program being executed;

Brief visit in an official or professional capacity;

(sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee;

The option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date

Assign a specified, proper name to;

Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone;

Ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality;

Order, request, or command to come;

Utter a sudden loud cry;

Pay a brief visit;

Call a meeting; invite or command to meet;

Order or request or give a command for;

Order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role;

Indicate a decision in regard to;

Stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather;

Read aloud to check for omissions or absentees;

Send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc.; make a signal to in order to transmit a message;

Declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee;

Utter a characteristic note or cry;

Utter in a loud voice or announce;

Make a prediction about; tell in advance;

Challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense;

Consider or regard as being;

Demand payment of (a loan);

Give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance

Greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name;

Make a stop in a harbour;

Make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands;

Require the presentation of for redemption before maturation;

Lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal;

Challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of;

Rouse somebody from sleep with a call;