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单词 call the shots
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call1 /köl/

intransitive verb
  1. To cry aloud, speak loudly, shout (often with out)
  2. Of an animal or bird, to utter a cry or characteristic sound
  3. To make a short visit (with on, for, at)
  4. To make a telephone call
  5. To demand that a player show his hand after repeated raising of stakes (poker)
  6. To try to predict the result of tossing a coin
  7. To make a bid (bridge)
transitive verb and intransitive verb (cards)

To declare (trump suit, etc)

transitive verb
  1. To name
  2. To summon or request to be present
  3. To rouse from sleep or from bed
  4. To designate or reckon
  5. To select for a special office, eg to the Bar
  6. To telephone
  7. To read out the names in (a roll)
  8. To demand the repayment of (a debt, loan, redeemable bonds, etc)
  9. To give the order for (a strike)
  10. To make a call (sport)
  11. To demand the playing of (an exposed card) (poker)
  12. To apply (an offensive name) to (informal)
  13. To broadcast a commentary on (a race, etc) (Aust and NZ)
  14. To transfer control to (a subroutine) (computing)
noun
  1. A summons or invitation (to the witness box, the telephone, the stage or rehearsal, etc)
  2. A sense of vocation
  3. A demand
  4. An act of waking someone
  5. A short visit
  6. A signal by trumpet, bell, etc
  7. A telephone connection or conversation, or a request for one
  8. Occasion, cause (informal)
  9. A declaration or undertaking, or the right to make it in turn (cards)
  10. A direction in square dancing
  11. A decision on the status of a shot, articulated by an umpire or (esp tennis) a line judge (sport)
  12. A cry, esp of a bird
  13. Admission to the rank of barrister
  14. An invitation to the pastorate of a congregation
  15. (also call option) an option of buying within a certain time certain securities or commodities at a stipulated price (stock exchange)
  16. The money paid to secure such an option
  17. One instalment of the payment for newly-issued securities
ORIGIN: OE ceallian and ON kalla

callˈer noun

callˈing noun

Vocation, an occupation or profession

call alarm noun

A small radio transmitter used, esp by elderly people living alone, to summon help in an emergency

callˈ-at-large noun

A form of pastoral call sometimes adopted by a presbytery where a congregation is not unanimous, in which the name of the person to be called is not inscribed beforehand, and the names cannot be adhibited by mandate

callˈ-back noun

  1. A return telephone call
  2. An act of recalling

callˈ-barring noun (telecommunications)

The ability to restrict outgoing telephone calls to certain numbers

callˈ-bird noun

A bird trained to lure others into snares by its call

callˈ-box noun

A public telephone-box

callˈ-boy noun

A boy who calls the actors when they are required on stage

call centre noun

A building where workers provide services to a company's customers by telephone

Caller ID noun

A facility which displays the telephone number of an incoming call

call gapping noun

A technique used to prevent congestion in telephone systems by limiting the number of calls that can pass through the network at any time

callˈ-girl noun

A prostitute who arranges appointments with clients by telephone

call house noun

A house of prostitution

calling card noun

  1. A visiting card
  2. Anything that reveals the identity of a person (figurative)

callˈing-crab noun

The fiddler crab, which waves its larger claw when disturbed

callˈ-loan or callˈ-money noun (finance)

A loan or money called in for repayment or payable when demanded

callˈ-note noun

The note by which a bird or animal calls to its own kind

call option noun (stock exchange) see n above.

call-out see call out below.

call sign or call signal noun (communications)

A combination of letters and numbers, identifying a particular ship, aircraft, transmitter, etc

callˈtime noun

  1. Time available for use in making calls on a mobile phone
  2. The time used on a single phone call

callˈ-up noun

An act of calling up, esp conscription into the armed forces

call waiting noun (telecommunications)

The ability to accept an incoming telephone call routed by another number while holding a call on one's own number

call attention to

To point out

call away

To divert the mind

call back

  1. To recall
  2. To visit again
  3. To telephone again

call by

To visit briefly in passing

call collect (N American)

To make a reverse-charge telephone call

call cousins

To claim kindred

call down

  1. To invoke
  2. To rebuke, reprove sharply and angrily (esp US informal)

call for

  1. To come for and take away with one
  2. To ask loudly for
  3. To demand
  4. To require (calledˈ-for required, necessary; not called for uncalled-for)

call forth

To evoke

call in

  1. To bring in from public use old currency notes, etc (banking)
  2. To demand repayment of (a debt, etc)
  3. To call to one's help (eg a doctor, the police)
  4. To withdraw from circulation
  5. To withdraw (eg an application)

call in on

To visit briefly and informally

call in (or into) question

To challenge, cast doubt on

call off

  1. To order to come away
  2. To withdraw or back out
  3. To cancel or abandon

call of nature (euphemistic)

A need to urinate or defecate

call on or upon

  1. To invoke, appeal to
  2. To make a short visit to

call out

  1. To challenge to fight, eg a duel
  2. To summon to service, bring into operation
  3. To instruct (members of a trade union) to come out on strike
  4. To request or arrange a visit (eg of a repairman, service engineer; callˈ-out noun and adjective)

call over

To read aloud (a list)

call round

To visit informally

call the shots (orig US) or call the tune

To say what is to happen, to order, or to be in command

call to account see under account

call to mind

To recollect, or cause to recollect

call to order

  1. To call upon (participants) to observe the rules of debate
  2. (of a chairman) to announce that a formal meeting is starting

call up

  1. To summon eg to a tribunal, to esp military service, or to memory
  2. To telephone
  3. To display (information, data, etc on a computer screen)

have first call on

To have the right to use (something) in preference to anyone else

it's your, his, etc call

It is up to you, him, etc to make a decision

on call

  1. Available if required
  2. Ready to answer a summons

pay a call (informal; euphemistic)

To go to the lavatory

within call

Within calling distance

shot1 /shot/

noun
  1. An act of shooting
  2. A blast
  3. An explosive charge
  4. A single photographic exposure, or a length of cinematic film taken without a break with a single camera
  5. A camera's range or extent of view, as in out of shot
  6. A stroke, throw or hit in sports and games
  7. An attempt (informal)
  8. A spell (informal)
  9. A turn (informal)
  10. A guess (informal)
  11. The casting of a net
  12. A set of nets or length of net cast
  13. An aggressive remark
  14. An injection (informal)
  15. A dram (informal)
  16. A person that shoots, a marksman
  17. A projectile, esp one that is solid and spherical, without bursting charge
  18. A cannonball
  19. A weight for putting (athletics)
  20. A bullet
  21. A small pellet of which several are shot together
  22. Such pellets collectively
  23. The launch of a rocket to a specified destination
  24. Flight of a missile, or its distance
  25. Range, reach
  26. A plot of land
  27. (also scot) a payment, esp of a bill or one's share of a bill
  28. A contribution
transitive verb (shottˈing; shottˈed)

To load with shot

ORIGIN: OE sc(e)ot, gesc(e)ot; cf shoot

shottˈed adjective

shotˈ-blast transitive verb

shotˈ-blasting noun

The cleaning of metal, etc, by means of a stream of shot

shotˈ-clog noun (obsolete)

A simpleton who is only tolerated for his willingness to pay the bill

shotˈfirer noun (mining)

In blasting, the worker who fires the charge

shotˈ-free adjective

  1. Scot-free
  2. Safe from shot

shotˈgun noun see separate entry.

shotˈhole noun

  1. A hole made by a shot, or in timber by a boring insect, or in a leaf by a fungus
  2. A hole in a wall for shooting from
  3. A hole bored in rock for a blasting charge

shotˈmaker noun (sport, esp tennis and golf)

A person who produces winning, attacking or skilful shots or strokes

shotˈmaking noun

shot noise noun (electronics)

Inherent noise resulting from variations in the current output of an electronic device caused by the random pulses of electron emission from the electrode (also called flicker noise, Schottky noise)

shotˈproof adjective

Able to withstand shot

shot put noun

The athletics event of putting the shot

shotˈ-putter noun

shot tower noun

Formerly, a tower where small shot is made by dropping molten lead into water from a given height

shot window noun (obsolete)

Appar a hinged or casement window

a shot across the bows

One thus directed so as to warn a ship off rather than damage it (often figurative)

a shot in the arm

  1. An injection in the arm (medicine)
  2. A revivifying injection, eg of money, new effort, renewed confidence, fresh talent (figurative)

a shot in the dark

A random guess or wild speculation

big shot (informal)

A person of importance

call the shots see under call1

have a shot

  1. (with at) (informal) to have a try or go (at something)
  2. To jeer or carp (at someone) (Aust)

hotshot see under hot1

like a shot

  1. Instantly, quickly
  2. Eagerly, willingly

shot to nothing (snooker)

An attempt to pot a ball played in such way that, if the shot is missed, one's opponent will not be left with an easy opportunity

stand shot (obsolete and dialect)

To pay the bill

still have shot in the (or one's) locker

  1. To be still potent
  2. To have something yet in reserve

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