Visit vs. Call — What's the Difference?

To go to see or spend time with (someone); call on socially

To say in a loud voice; announce

To go to see in order to aid or console

To demand or ask for the presence of

To stay with (someone) as a guest.

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

To go to see in an official or professional capacity

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

To go to see or spend time at (a place) with a certain intent

To give the command for; order

To access (a website).

To communicate or try to communicate with by telephone

To occur to or occupy the mind of

To dial (a telephone number)

To consider or discuss

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

To afflict or assail

To cause to come to the mind or to attention

To inflict or impose

To name

(Archaic) To inflict punishment on or for; avenge

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

To make a visit.

To designate; label

(Informal) To converse or chat

To demand payment of

The act or an instance of visiting a person or place.

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

A stay or sojourn as a guest.

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

(transitive) To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)

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

To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.

To declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee

(transitive) Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)

To indicate a decision in regard to

To punish, to inflict harm upon (someone or something).

To give the orders or signals for

(transitive) Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone).

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

(transitive) To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) on or upon someone.

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

(transitive) To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)

To indicate or characterize accurately in advance; predict

(transitive) To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc.

To challenge the truthfulness or genuineness of

A single act of visiting.

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

A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.

To speak loudly; shout

To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon; as, the physician visits his patient.

To utter a characteristic cry. Used of an animal

To go or come to see for inspection, examination, correction of abuses, etc.; to examine, to inspect; as, a bishop visits his diocese; a superintendent visits persons or works under his charge.

To communicate or try to communicate with someone by telephone

To come to for the purpose of chastising, rewarding, comforting; to come upon with reward or retribution; to appear before or judge; as, to visit in mercy; to visit one in wrath.

To pay a short visit

To make a visit or visits; to maintain visiting relations; to practice calling on others.

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

The act of visiting, or going to see a person or thing; a brief stay of business, friendship, ceremony, curiosity, or the like, usually longer than a call; as, a visit of civility or respect; a visit to Saratoga; the visit of a physician.

A loud cry; a shout.

The act of going to view or inspect; an official or formal inspection; examination; visitation; as, the visit of a trustee or inspector.

The characteristic cry of an animal.

The act of going to see some person or place or thing for a short time;

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

A meeting arranged by the visitor to see someone (such as a doctor or lawyer) for treatment or advice;

A telephone communication or connection.

The act of visiting in an official capacity (as for an inspection)

Need or occasion

The act of going to see some person in a professional capacity;

Demand

A temporary stay (e.g., as a guest)

A claim on a person's time or life

Visit a place, as for entertainment;

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

Go to certain places as for sightseeing;

A summons or invitation.

Pay a brief visit;

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

Come to see in an official or professional capacity;

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

Impose something unpleasant;

A strong inner urge or prompting; a vocation

Talk socially without exchanging too much information;

The strong attraction or appeal of a given activity or environment

Stay with as a guest;

A roll call.

Assail;

A notice of rehearsal times posted in a theater.

A decision made by an umpire or referee.

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

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

A demand for payment of a debt.

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

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

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

A telephone conversation; a phone call.

An instance of calling someone on the telephone.

A short visit, usually for social purposes.

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

A cry or shout.

A decision or judgement.

The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.

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.

See Assessment, 4.

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;